1. Thea Gilmore has released more than twenty albums since her 1998 debut, Burning Dorothy.
16 Facts About Thea Gilmore
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Thea Gilmore has had three top 40 entries on the UK Albums Chart and one on the UK Singles Chart.
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Thea Gilmore became interested in music as a result of her father's record collection, which included work by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and The Beatles.
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Thea Gilmore began her career working in a recording studio, where she met producer Nigel Stonier.
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Thea Gilmore released her first album as a teenager, entitled Burning Dorothy, in 1998.
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In 2002, Thea Gilmore shared lead vocals with Kellie While, beside musicians Maartin Allcock, John Kirkpatrick, Robbie McIntosh, Michael McGoldrick and Simon Swarbrick in the Reel and Soul Association.
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Thea Gilmore finally made a breakthrough at 23 with the release of Avalanche in August 2003, which became her first album to break into the Official UK Album Chart, at No 62, and spawned two minor hit singles, "Juliet " and "Mainstream", for which she garnered acclaim for producing a low-budget music video filmed in a local Virgin Megastore.
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In 2005, Thea Gilmore continued touring commitments, for the first time not releasing a new album.
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Thea Gilmore returned to recording with the release of Harpo's Ghost in August 2006, after a two-and-a-half-year absence of new material.
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In June 2008, Thea Gilmore signed to Rykodisc for the United States.
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In January 2011, Thea Gilmore appeared at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in a tribute concert celebrating the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan.
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In 2013, Thea Gilmore released a new album of original material, Regardless, to critical acclaim and much exposure on BBC Radio 2.
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Thea Gilmore released The Counterweight in June 2017 through Cooking Vinyl Records.
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Thea Gilmore has been releasing music via the crowd-funding website Patreon, both new songs and rarities recorded earlier in her career.
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In late 2021, Thea Gilmore released two albums back to back: The Emancipation of Eva Grey and Afterlight.
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On 14 November 2006, Thea Gilmore gave birth to her first child, a son, having conducted a UK tour in the autumn whilst heavily pregnant.