Damhnait Doyle
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| Born | December 9, 1975 |
| Origin | Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Genre(s) | Folk, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label(s) | Maple Music |
| Associated acts | Shaye, Gordie Sampson, Danny Michel, Kim Stockwood, Tara MacLean |
| Website | www.dav-net.com www.shayemusic.com |
Damhnait Doyle (born December 9, 1975 in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) is a Canadian pop singer. Her first name (which is Irish) is pronounced "davnet", which also serves as the title of her 2003 album. Her most recent album, Lights Down Low, is a collection of covers. She is a member of Atlantic Canadian regional supergroup Shaye with Kim Stockwood and previously Tara MacLean.
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[edit] Biography
Doyle took singing, guitar and clarinet lessons as a child, and released her debut album, Shadows Wake Me, in 1996. The lead single, "A List of Things", was a hit on the Canadian pop charts, and the album garnered a Juno Award nomination and several East Coast Music Award nominations for Doyle.
In 2000, Doyle released her follow-up album, Hyperdramatic. She scored another pop hit with "Tattooed", which had a particularly memorable video featuring Doyle dismembered and slowly trying to reassemble her scattered body parts. "Never Too Late", directed by Rob Heydon was nominated for Video of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards. In 2001, Doyle won four ECMA's, including Video of the Year and Female Artist of the Year.
In 2003, Doyle's third album, Davnet, was released. The CD was produced and co-written by Grammy winner Gordie Sampson at his Lakewind Sound Studios, his Cape Breton recording studio. The first single was Another California Song, written by Doyle and Sampson. The video featured Doyle's Shaye bandmates Kim Stockwood and Tara MacLean. A video was also released for Traffic.
In Christmas of that year, she went to Kabul, Afghanistan, to sing for the Canadian troops there, on the Christmas special Rick Mercer's Christmas in Kabul.
She has worked with Alexz Johnson, co-writing two songs on Songs from Instant Star, then four on Songs from Instant Star Two. She recorded two songs on Songs From Instant Star Three: "Just the Beginning" and "Darkness Round The Sun". The song "Say What You Will" was featured in the Degrassi: The Next Generation episode "The Bitterest Pill", where the school held a memorial for a series favorite J. T. Yorke, who was fatally stabbed in the prior episode.
She did a duet with Rex Goudie on his new album Look Closer, for the song "Like I Was Dying", which she also co-wrote.
[edit] Discography
- Shadows Wake Me (LP) (1996)
- Hyperdramatic Sampler (EP) (1999)
- Hyperdramatic (LP) (2000)
- Davnet (LP) (2003)
- Lights Down Low (LP) (2008)
[edit] With Shaye
- The Bridge (LP) (2003)
- Happy Baby (Single) (2003)
- Beauty (Single) (2004)
- Lake of Fire (Single) (2006)
- Lake of Fire (LP) (2007)
- You're Not Alone (Single) (2007)
[edit] Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Female: The Journals of Damhnait Doyle (2005)
[edit] External links
- Damhnait Doyle official website
- Shaye official website
- Doyle's management company
- Damhnait Doyle at MySpace
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