1. Catherine Davey was born on 1979 and is an Irish singer-songwriter.
41 Facts About Cathy Davey
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Cathy Davey has released one extended play, "Come Over", and four albums, Something Ilk, Tales of Silversleeve, The Nameless and New Forest.
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Cathy Davey has performed at several international events, including representing Ireland at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands, and performing at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
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Cathy Davey has performed at other large exhibitions and festivals in Ireland, including Electric Picnic, Indie-pendence and The Music Show.
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Cathy Davey appears prominently on the 2016 album Foreverland by The Divine Comedy.
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Cathy Davey was born in Dublin, daughter of composer Shaun Cathy Davey and sculptor Agnes Conway.
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The first live performance Cathy Davey attended was An Emotional Fish with The Stunning on St Stephen's Green.
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Cathy Davey initially intended to be an artist and to develop her interest in music in her leisure time but the offer of a record deal changed that.
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Notable fans of Cathy Davey's music include broadcaster Sile Ni Bhraonain.
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Cathy Davey was initially uncomfortable with being described as a singer-songwriter but is more accepting of the term.
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Cathy Davey first came to be known as a backing vocalist alongside Carol Keogh for Ken McHugh's project Autamata.
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McHugh and Cathy Davey subsequently collaborated on what Hot Press described as "a mixture of otherworldly indie and soft space age melodica".
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Cathy Davey's rise had been low-profile; she did not perform live until she had signed her record deal.
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Cathy Davey supported Graham Coxon and Supergrass during tours they undertook that year.
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Cathy Davey performed a nationwide tour in late May 2007, debuting songs from her follow-up album which she initially referred to as Silversleeve.
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Cathy Davey explained the title choice, "I had a runny nose when I was a child and let's just say I didn't wipe it with a tissue".
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Cathy Davey appeared on the seventh series of Other Voices in early 2008.
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Cathy Davey performed at Childline Rocks in February 2008, followed by a performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas in that March.
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Cathy Davey was dropped by her record company in mid-2008 alongside most of their client list.
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Cathy Davey headlined the Main Stage at Cork X Southwest in Skibbereen in July 2008.
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Cathy Davey featured at The Music Show in the RDS in October 2008.
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Cathy Davey's song "Moving" has been used in a prominent Vodafone commercial in her native Ireland.
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Lead single "Little Red" was released on 21 April 2010 and followed by an Irish tour in May Cathy Davey performed on The Late Late Show on 23 April 2010.
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On 16 July 2010, to promote the second single from The Nameless album, Cathy Davey released a download only EP for "Army of Tears".
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Cathy Davey performed 'Chrysocoma' on RTE One's The Late Late Show on 23 September 2016.
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Cathy Davey has appeared on the Autamata track "Cloud Seekers", taken from the album My Sanctuary.
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Cathy Davey dueted with Gavin Glass on the track "Rag Doll".
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Cathy Davey sang a song called "Cannonballs" on a 2005 CD titled Faction One, released by record label Faction.
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Cathy Davey appears on the David Turpin track "Red Elk".
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Cathy Davey lent her vocals to the 2008 charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing, on which she performed a cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love".
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Cathy Davey performed guest vocals on the track "The Sweet Spot" from The Duckworth Lewis Method's eponymous album and three tracks on Bang Goes the Knighthood, Neil Hannon's 2010 album as The Divine Comedy.
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Cathy Davey hosted Songs That Scare Children at the Spiegeltent during the Dublin Fringe Festival in September 2008.
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Cathy Davey's music is available to download from the PlayStation SingStore.
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Cathy Davey was involved in efforts to raise funds in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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In summer 2016, Cathy Davey confirmed a new album was due for release in autumn 2016, this was preceded by the first new single 'The Pattern' released on 15 July 2016.
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Cathy Davey went on to launch a charity called My Lovely Horse Rescue, which has saved the lives of hundreds of horses since its inception.
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Since 2009, Cathy Davey has been in a relationship with Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy.
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Cathy Davey is an animal lover: She and Hannon have several dogs and are patrons of the Irish animal charity My Lovely Horse Rescue.
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Cathy Davey won Best Pop Act at the 2011 Digital Socket Awards in Dublin.
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Cathy Davey won Best Irish Female at the 2008 Meteor Awards.
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Casey later admitted he would have preferred if Cathy Davey had won the award.