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Damien Rice
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Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- My Favourite Faded Fantasy
- Damien Rice
- Damien Rice 9
- Damien Rice O
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Film & TV
Acting · County Kildare, Ireland
Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Rice began his musical career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper, who were signed to Polygram Records in 1997. The band enjoyed moderate success with a couple of single releases, but a projected album floundered because of record company politics. After leaving Juniper, he worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked…
Known for
- The Busk - A Decade of Christmas on Grafton Street — Self2020
- Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen — Self - Performer2018
- Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said — Self2016
- For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela — Himself2014
- Meteor Choice Music Prize 2014 — Self - Nominee2014
- Damien Rice - Four Sessions — Damien Rice2009
- From the Basement — Self2009
- Live from Abbey Road: Best of Season 1 — Self2006
- Other Voices: Damien Rice2006
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1973
Discography
- Cannonball2002
- O2002
- Volcano2002
- Live From the Union Chapel2003
- Woman Like a Man2003
- 2004 Live at Outremont Theatre, Montreal2004
- B-Sides2004
- Live2004
- Lonelily / Moody Mooday2004
- Lonely Soldier2004
Member of
- Juniper1991–1999
- The Cake Sale
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,175,392
- Total plays
- 71,037,083
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Damien Rice (born December 7, 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, to George and Maureen Rice and was raised in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. In March 1999 Damien moved to Tuscany, then travelled around Europe, busking the streets. He arrived back in Dublin a year later, with a clear head and full of ideas. Damien started playing and recording music with his first band, Juniper. After a few years he decided creatively it was not for him so he left the band (
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay
· 1999 · cited 21,337x
- Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination
· 1998 · cited 13,100x
- Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance
· 2012 · cited 11,537x
- EMBOSS: The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
· 2000 · cited 8,477x
- Extremely randomized trees
· 2006 · cited 7,643x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1973-12-07 ) 7 December 1973 (age 52) , Dublin , Ireland
- Origin
- Celbridge , Ireland
- Genres
- Alternative folk
- Occupation
- Singer-songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano bass drums clarinet
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Labels
- Vector Recordings Warner Bros. DRM 14th Floor
- Website
- damienrice .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Damien George Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter. He began his career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper, who were signed to Polygram Records in 1997. The band enjoyed moderate success in Ireland with two released singles, "The World is Dead" and "Weatherman." After leaving the band in 1998, Rice worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe before returning to Ireland in 2001 and beginning a solo career. The rest of Juniper went on to perform under the name Bell X1.
In 2002, Rice released his debut album, O. It reached No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart, won the Shortlist Music Prize, and generated three top 30 singles in the UK. He released his second album, 9, in 2006. After eight years of various collaborations, Rice released his third studio album, My Favourite Faded Fantasy, in 2014. He has contributed music to charitable projects such as Songs for Tibet, the Enough Project, and the Freedom Campaign.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Damien Rice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.