11 Facts About Imelda May

Imelda May won Female Artist of the Year at the 2009 Meteor Awards.

Imelda May released her third studio album, Mayhem, in Ireland on 3 September 2010, again reaching No 1 in the Irish Album Charts, and in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2010, and earned her a nomination for the Choice Music Prize.

In 2016, Imelda May performed at RTE's Centenary Concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

Also in 2021, Imelda May contributed a cover of the Metallica song "The God That Failed" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist.

Imelda May was the surprise guest in Dublin for U2's homecoming show on the band's 2015 Innocence + Experience tour: Bono called her "the other queen of Ireland" as she came on stage to perform "Desire", streamed live online to millions of viewers.

In 2020, Imelda May was part of an Irish collective of female singers and musicians called Irish Women in Harmony that recorded a version of "Dreams" in aid of the charity SafeIreland, which deals with domestic abuse, which had reportedly risen significantly during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Imelda May performed at Night for Ukraine, a fundraising benefit held at the Roundhouse in north London on the evening of March 9,2022, with the funds raised being donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, to provide aid to people fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

Imelda May made her acting debut in the 2022 film Fisherman's Friends: One and All.

Imelda May married her guitarist and band member, Darrel Higham, in 2002.

Imelda May gave birth to a daughter in August 2012.

On 17 July 2015, Imelda May announced the couple's decision to separate after 13 years of marriage.