Tara Blaise was born on 1 March 1975 and is an Irish female pop, folk, and rock singer.
17 Facts About Tara Blaise
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The eldest of six children, Blaise was born in London, but at the age of three moved with her family to Ireland and grew up in Aughrim County Wicklow.
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The daughter of an architect and a speech and drama teacher, Tara Blaise was introduced to the world of drama and music at a young age, studying speech and drama up to grade eight in the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
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Tara Blaise's singing career began at 16 when she formed a band called Les Legumes with school friends, but it was her stint as a backing singer with Dublin band The Wilde Oscars that first brought her to the attention of the Irish music scene.
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Tara Blaise headlined London's Bush Hall in September 2005, and had her first headlining Irish tour, culminating in a Dublin show at the Sugar Club in November.
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In March and April 2007 Tara Blaise opened for Michael Ball on his 23-date UK tour.
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In 2009 Tara Blaise submitted a song as a potential Irish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
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In January 2010 Tara Blaise was back in the studio recording with Davey MacManus for his new album.
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In March 2012 Tara Blaise released her new self-penned single Our New Horizon.
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Tara Blaise is part of the cast of the long-running touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners produced by Marc Sinden, and in April 2009 performed at the Holder's Season, Barbados and in July 2010 in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
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In 2009 Tara Blaise had a part in The Rivals, a show by Richard Brinsley Sheridan at the Abbey theatre.
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Tara Blaise worked in the short film Dental Breakdown that was shown at the Corona Cork Film Festival in 2009.
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Tara Blaise is to be featured in an advertising campaign for the Dublin Make-up brand Face2.
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In late 2008 Tara Blaise was a model featured in an advertising campaign for Tommy Hilfiger in Ireland.
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In 2009 Tara Blaise appeared on the RTE show Off the Rails.
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At the 2009 Meteor Awards Tara Blaise was nominated in the category Best Irish Female Artist; she lost to Imelda May.
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Tara Blaise surprisingly auditioned for the first series of reality talent show The Voice of Ireland but failed to attract a single coach despite making it through the initial auditions and securing a place at the blind auditions.