Siobhan Fahey
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Biography
Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey is an Irish singer whose vocal range is a light contralto. She was a founding member of the British girl group Bananarama, who have had ten top-10 hits including the US number one hit single "Venus".
"I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?"
"I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together."
"I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music … It has probably been the biggest relationship in my life. It's my fascination, my on-going passion. … I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me."
"It's time that glamour came back, everything has got a little bit beige in the last two years, I say bring back black!"
"Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex."
"I've always tried not to take it too seriously — if you do, you dry up creatively, you turn into a product and it stymies you."
"Believe in yourself as ever, and your own tastes and ideas, and stay true to them, or you'll fuck your head up and end up hating what you do."
"We were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press."
"I love digging out old records … Fashion goes round in circles."