There's just me! I play solo a lot of the time, sometimes I'm joined by Al Cowan on percussion, he plays a mean Djembe! For bigger headline gigs and for the recording of "Truth according to shaz OYE" I got to work with some very fine musicians Dave McCune - Drums, Dave Molloy - Guitars, Gavin Murphy - Piano, Joe Csibi - Bass, Rory Pierce - Cello and Richie Buckley - Sax.
Influences
Oh, everyone from Monteverdi and Josquin Desprez to Mozart, from Nina Simone and Odetta to Miles Davis, from Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash to Paul Weller.
The only music I can't stand is homophobic rap. Life's too short.
Sounds Like
shaz OYE! "the bastard love child of Nina Simone and Antony (of the Johnsons)" Or so I've been told! Check out the CD and make up your own mind.
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What the critics are saying about SYLVIA FALLING: I’ve recently “discovered” an amazing singer, Shaz OYE from Dublin, she’s a singer in a million. What a voice! What a song, what a feeling for a song. Larry Kirwan, Sirius Satellite Radio, USA
The album’s most sublime moment. With its melancholic piano line and soaring central notes, this is an achingly beautiful love song to women who are trapped within someone else’s idea of who they should be. Brian Finnegan, GCN, The Choice Cut
OYE sidesteps the urge to rant and lets her glossy voice take over; on Sylvia Falling, a comment on fashion’s phoniness, it blends stunningly with piano Sinead Gleeson, The Ticket, The Irish Times Giants like Shirley Bassey and Nina Simone must’ve been on the turntable in OYE’s youth, because she has their same rare ability to plunge the cavernous depths, then resurface into heart-rending vibrato Adrienne Murphy, Hotpress Magazine
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SHAZ OYE: Truth according to shaz OYE
This Irish born singer-songwriter has used her truly remarkable voice to create a sublime album thats bursting with intelligence, beauty and amazing emotional depth...this is probably the most intense collection of songs you'll hear this year.
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