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Dolores Keane was born on 26 September, 1953 in Sylane, County Galway, Ireland, is an Irish folk singer (born 1953). Discover Dolores Keane's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Singer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 26 September 1953
Birthday 26 September
Birthplace Sylane, County Galway, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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Her husband is John Faulkner (m. 1977)

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Dolores Keane Net Worth

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1953

Dolores Keane (born 26 September 1953) is an Irish folk singer.

She was a founding member of the group De Dannan following which she pursued a solo recording and touring career.

Keane was born in a small village called Sylane (near Tuam) in rural County Galway in the west of Ireland.

From the age of four she was raised by her aunts Rita and Sarah Keane, also well-known sean-nós singers.

Keane started her singing at a very young age, due to the influence of her musical aunts.

1958

She made her first recording for Radio Éireann in 1958, at the age of five.

Her brother, Seán, also went on to enjoy a successful music career.

1970

The group gained international recognition and enjoyed major success in the late 1970s in the US.

Keane went touring with the band and their single "The Rambling Irishman" was a big hit in Ireland.

1975

In 1975, she co-founded the traditional Irish band De Dannan, and they released their debut album Dé Danann in that same year.

1976

In early 1976, after a short two-year spell, Keane left De Dannan and was replaced by Andy Irvine, who recorded live with the band on 30 April 1976, during the Third Irish Folk Festival in Germany.

Soon thereafter, she married multi-instrumentalist John Faulkner, with whom she would subsequently record three albums of folk music.

1977

Keane married musician John Faulkner, with whom she had worked on many occasions, in 1977.

After a difficult pregnancy, Keane gave birth to their first child, Joseph.

He was born with Bardet–Biedl syndrome, which causes obesity and failing vision.

1978

During this period Keane recorded her first solo album, There Was a Maid in 1978.

1979

This was followed by two other releases, Broken Hearted I'll Wander (1979) and Farewell to Eirinn (1980), which gave credit to Faulkner.

1980

Keane lived and worked in London for several years with Faulkner, before they moved to Ireland in the early 1980s.

They worked on a series of film scores and programmes for the BBC and formed two successful bands, The Reel Union and Kinvara.

In the mid-1980s, she rejoined De Dannan and recorded the albums Anthem and Ballroom with them.

1988

Keane turned her attention, once again, to her solo career in 1988.

It saw the release of the eponymous Dolores Keane album.

1989

Her follow-up album A Lion in a Cage, which was released in 1989, featured a song written by Faulkner called "Lion in a Cage", protesting the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.

It became Keane's first Irish number-one single, and she performed the hit at the celebration of his release.

A new facet was added to Dolores' career when she played the female lead in the Dublin production of Brendan Behan's The Hostage, a new translation by Niall Tóibín and Michael Scott, the opening night of which was attended by Mary Robinson, the President of Ireland at the time.

1990

Despite a healthy solo career, Keane went on tour with De Dannan again in the late 1990s, where she played to packed audiences in venues such as Birmingham, Alabama and New York City.

Keane is known the world over for her deep, melodic voice.

Her recordings of songs such as Dougie MacLean's "Caledonia", Frank A. Fahey's "Galway Bay", Paul Brady's "The Island", and Donagh Long's "Never Be the Sun" are regarded as amongst the greatest interpretations of these songs.

American singer Nanci Griffith said of Keane: "Dolores Keane, the queen of the soul of Ireland, has a sacred voice".

1991

Dolores contributed to the RTÉ/BBC television production Bringing It All Back Home (1991), a series of programmes illustrating the movement of Irish music to America.

Keane was shown performing both in Nashville, Tennessee with musicians such as Emmylou Harris and Richard Thompson, and at home in Galway with her aunts Rita and Sarah.

1992

In 1992, Keane was among the many female Irish singers to lend their music to the record-smashing anthology A Woman's Heart.

The album, which also featured Eleanor McEvoy, Mary Black, Frances Black, Sharon Shannon and Maura O'Connell, went on to become the biggest-selling album in Irish history.

1994

A Woman's Heart Vol. 2 was released in late 1994 and was also a high charting album in Ireland..

Also in 1994, a solo album, entitled Solid Ground, was released on the Shanachie label (available on Dara Records) and received critical acclaim in Europe and America.

1995

In August 1995, Keane was awarded the prestigious 'Fiddler's Green Hall of Fame' award in Rostrevor, County Down, for her "significant contribution to the cause of Irish music and culture".

In that same year, she took to the stage in the Dublin production of JM Synge's Playboy of the Western World.

1997

In August 1997, Keane went to number one again in the Irish albums chart with a compilation album of her most loved songs.

1998

Another studio album was released by Keane in 1998, called Night Owl.

It saw Keane returning to her traditional Irish roots and it did well in Europe and America.