1. Una Theresa Imogene Healy was born on 10 October 1981 and is an Irish singer.
41 Facts About Una Healy
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Una Healy rose to fame in 2008 as a member of five-piece girl group The Saturdays, who are signed to Fascination and Polydor Records.
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Una Healy previously attempted a solo career in 2006, when she released her first extended play, Sorry.
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Una Healy became a judge on RTE's The Voice of Ireland where she remained on the judging panel for the fourth and fifth series; she was the winning mentor in her debut year with her act Patrick James, and placed third in the fifth season.
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Una Healy released a single "Never See Me Cry" in March 2018.
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Una Healy was born on 10 October 1981 in Thurles, County Tipperary.
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Una Healy comes from a musical background and is the niece of country singer Declan Nerney.
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Una Healy has an elder sister, Deirdre, whom she calls "Dee".
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Una Healy is a cousin of Irish athlete Paul Hession.
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At the age of 13, Una Healy gave up swimming and decided to take up guitar, teaching herself to play using her mother's guitar, and from then on began to write songs of her own.
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Una Healy went on to study nursing and then primary teaching at Mary Immaculate College, but finally decided to pursue her music passion at 23 years old.
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Una Healy began her music career playing guitar and singing in pubs and clubs around Ireland, solo and in bands.
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Una Healy won Ireland's Glinsk Song Contest in both 2004 and 2006.
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Una Healy represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as a backing singer for Brian Kennedy on "Every Song Is a Cry for Love".
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Whilst Una Healy was slowly finding success in her native Ireland as an indie solo artist, she felt she did not have a firm direction in her career.
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In 2008, Una Healy wrote, produced and performed on the soundtrack to Christian Blake, written and directed by Eoin Macken.
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Una Healy was a member of the Saturdays, a girl group, from 2007 until 2014.
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Una Healy was drafted in to become a judge on sport reality television competition, Let's Get Gold Una Healy was on the judging panel alongside Martine McCutcheon, Andrew Flintoff and Rio Ferdinand.
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In June 2014, Una Healy hosted the first ever Irish version of Pride of Britain Awards.
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Una Healy said she was "overwhelmed" by all of the stories and it was tough choosing between such worthy contenders.
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Una Healy said that her children inspired her in many different ways creatively when she began to write the album, and that she wanted to continue to record and perform music to help support them in the life they deserved.
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Una Healy said she wrote "Stare at the Moon" about her eldest child, Aoife Belle, for she knew all the words to the band's songs.
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Una Healy later performed "Perfect" with Kelly Mongan on the second series of The Voice of Ireland.
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When performing on the second series of The Voice of Ireland, Una Healy impressed producers and fans.
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Una Healy was the winning judge on the fourth series of The Voice of Ireland when the act she mentored, Patrick James, won the show.
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Una Healy returned to The Voice of Ireland to judge the fifth series of the show.
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Nigel Connell was the last member of Team Una Healy to be in the competition where he placed third.
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However, In October 2016, Una Healy announced that her debut album would not be realised until 2017.
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In late 2016, Una Healy announced the record to be titled The Waiting Game.
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Una Healy said that album's title came from waiting to record her own solo record since she was eight years old.
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Una Healy revealed that she co-wrote the full album and it was nice to get back to her "roots" of songwriting.
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Una Healy released the lead single from her debut album, "Stay My Love", in January 2017.
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Una Healy took part in the "Forever Country Covers Series", which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Country Music Association Awards.
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Una Healy performed Forever and Ever, Amen, originally a hit for CMA winner Randy Travis.
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Una Healy performed at Europe's largest country music festival, C2C: Country to Country, in both 2017 and 2018, opening for country legend Reba McEntire in Dublin on 12 March.
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In 2020, Una Healy 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.
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Una Healy has hosted an evening talk show, The 6 O'Clock Show in Ireland.
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Una Healy married Rugby Union fullback Ben Foden on 30 June 2012 in her native Ireland.
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Una Healy won "Hottest Female 2009" in the Virgin Media Music Awards.
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Una Healy appeared in the January 2010 edition of FHM along with the other members of the Saturdays.
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Una Healy previously ran her own blog where she spoke about family life, The Saturdays and herself.