1. Orla Joan Gartland was born on 3 February 1995 and is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician.
29 Facts About Orla Gartland
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Orla Gartland grew up in Drumcondra, Northside, Dublin near Croke Park.
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Orla Gartland has a younger sister and a younger brother.
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In 2012, Orla Gartland opened for Britain's Got Talent contestant Ryan O'Shaughnessy at The Academy and for Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt at Bewley's Cafe Theatre.
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In March 2013, Orla Gartland announced her first tour, headlining five shows in the UK and in Ireland during July 2013.
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On 11 November 2013, Orla Gartland released her four-song EP Roots on iTunes.
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Orla Gartland toured in support of the album in February 2014 visiting ten cities in Ireland and in the United Kingdom.
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On 2 May 2018, Orla Gartland released her first single in three years, "I Go Crazy", and on 2 November 2018 she released a new single "Between My Teeth", which she announced were both standalone singles.
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On 16 October, 2020, Orla Gartland released a single called "Pretending".
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Conceptually, Orla Gartland created a fictional character for the album, describing the 'woman on the internet' as "a modern-day wizard-of-oz".
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Orla Gartland has credited her friend Greta Isaac as her creative director, who was involved in the conceptualizing of the album's visuals and music videos.
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In 2022, Orla Gartland released an Anniversary Edition of Woman on the Internet, featuring two live tracks and a remix version of "Over Your Head" by Sasami.
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On 1 August, 2023, Orla Gartland released a brand new single, "Kiss Ur Face Forever", co-written by her best friend and songwriter Lauren Aquilina.
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On 15 May 2024, Orla Gartland released another new single called "Little Chaos", and was accompanied with a music video directed by Anne-Sofie Lindgaard.
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Alongside a collaborative song "Late to the Party" with Declan McKenna, Orla Gartland revealed the tracklist of her forthcoming sophomore album Everybody Needs a Hero, set for an October 2024 release.
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In 2023, Orla Gartland formed the band Fizz with Dodie, Greta Isaac, and Martin Luke Brown.
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Orla Gartland contributed the song "Cast Your Stone" on the album Simple Things, a compilation album released on 15 November 2013 by Niall Breslin in support of suicide prevention in Ireland.
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Orla Gartland participated in a group performance of "Simple Things" musicians on RTE programme, The Saturday Night Show.
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Orla Gartland has played alongside Dodie in all three of her EP release tours, and was a supporting act in Dodie's 2019 'Human' tour.
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Orla Gartland was a co-writer of K-pop boy band BTS's song "134340" from their sixth overall studio album Love Yourself: Tear.
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In 2020, Orla Gartland was part of an Irish collective of female singers and musicians called "Irish Women in Harmony", that recorded a cover version of the song the Cranberries' "Dreams" in aid of the charity Safe Ireland, which deals with domestic violence which had reportedly risen significantly during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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In December 2022, Orla Gartland featured on Half Alive's song "Never Been Better".
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Orla Gartland has recalled listening to the likes of Avril Lavigne, Brandi Carlile, Katie Melua, Van Morrison, and the English band Busted, as she was growing up.
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Orla Gartland had cited Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper, and Greg Holden as influences.
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Orla Gartland has a preference for the electric guitar, with her most prized possession being her pink Fender Telecaster.
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Orla Gartland has stated that the main themes of her 2021 debut studio album were about growing up, feeling lost, comparison and identity issues.
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Orla Gartland has been influenced by Peter Gabriel, with visual references in her music videos "I Go Crazy" and "Kiss Ur Face Forever".
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Orla Gartland's flower look was inspired by the character Little Weed from the children's television programme Flower Pot Men.
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In June 2021, Orla Gartland publicly came out as bisexual on Twitter.