Visit of legendary Crystal Gayle
Thursday February 11 2010
HAVING enjoyed a career spanning four decades, during which she has won numerous awards and accolades, Crystal Gayle remains one of the most popular and successful country singers of all time. Irish audiences will be able to see why that is when she plays the INEC in Killarney on Saturday, March 13.
The youngest of eight children, Gayle grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, an area of Southern America with its own great tradition of musical fusion.
While still in school she signed her first recording contract and her debut single I've Cried (The Blue Right Out of My Eyes), written by her sister Loretta Lynn, peaked at number 25 on the US country chart.
Her first-ever album, titled simply Crystal Gayle, was released in 1974 and the following year she landed her first Top Ten country hit, Wrong Road Again.
In 1976, I'll Get Over You became the first of her 17 number-one country singles.
Her fourth album, We Must Believe In Magic, included the single Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, the song that well and truly launched her onto the global stage.
The song won a coveted Grammy Award, while the album went platinum, the first LP by a female country artist ever to do so.
More hit singles followed including Talking In Your Sleep, Half The Way, If You Ever Change Your Mind, The Woman In Me and Livin In These Troubled Times.
Her list of platinum and gold record sales is matched by the accolades she has received including various County Music and American Music awards as well as the Grammy for Best Female Vocalist.
Tickets for her concert at the INEC cost €39.50 from the box office on 064 6671550 or at www.inec.ie.
- BILL BROWNE BBROWNE@CORKMAN.IE
