14 Facts About Dolores Keane

Dolores Keane was born on 26 September 1953 and is an Irish folk singer.

Dolores Keane was a founding member of the group De Dannan following which she pursued a solo recording and touring career.

Dolores Keane started her singing at a very young age, due to the influence of her musical aunts.

Dolores Keane made her first recording for Radio Eireann in 1958, at the age of five.

Dolores Keane went touring with the band and their single "The Rambling Irishman" was a big hit in Ireland.

In early 1976, after a short two-year spell, Dolores Keane left De Dannan and was replaced by Andy Irvine, who recorded live with the band on 30 April 1976, during the Third Irish Folk Festival in Germany.

Dolores Keane lived and worked in London for several years with Faulkner, before they moved to Ireland in the early 1980s.

In 1992, Dolores Keane was among the many female Irish singers to lend their music to the record-smashing anthology A Woman's Heart.

Dolores Keane was shown performing both in Nashville, Tennessee with musicians such as Emmylou Harris and Richard Thompson, and at home in Galway with her aunts Rita and Sarah.

Dolores Keane is known the world over for her deep, melodic voice.

Dolores Keane married musician John Faulkner, with whom she had worked on many occasions, in 1977.

Dolores Keane had a long relationship with Barry "Bazza" Farmer, with whom she had her second child, Tara, born in 1994.

Dolores Keane put an end to recording and touring in the late 1990s, due to depression and alcoholism.

In November 2024, Dolores Keane received an honorary doctorate in Music from University of Galway.