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She is an honours graduate of Trinity College Dublin (Joint Honours Politics and Business) faculty of E.S.S.
[edit]Musical career
In 2001, Maria released music on Mermaid Records, a label she founded herself. Her debut solo album Charm was released in 2001. She coordinated Sirens which is a compilation album of female artists and which was released in 2003. She released an album Skullcover consisting of cover versions in 2005, and Mütter in 2007. Maria’s new album with her husband Kieran is called The Storms Are On the Ocean. A collection of Appalachian standards dressed in beautifully darned gowns, its spiritual siblings are Plant's Band of Joy, PJ's White Chalk and Gillian Welch's stark daguerreotypes. Here are courtly tunes, murder ballads, child ballads and death fugues all beautifully backlit by Kieran Kennedy's acoustic guitar, banjo and piano. Both of her solo albums have been nominated for Meteor awards and her forthcoming project sees her teamed with U.S. country music legend John Prine Damien Rice and Paul Brady.
[edit]Musical History
Maria joined a band while still in college in the mid-80s. They formed originally to enter a Slogadh competition (which they won) but music quickly became a motivating force in her life. She has spent the best part of 20 years performing live all over the world to audiences ranging from the many thousands who have enjoyed her show at festivals (Glastonbury, Oxegen, Cambridge Folk Festival etc.) to the more intimate theatre concerts.
One must include in Maria Doyle's musical history her appearance as Natalie, one of a trio of backup singers in the 1991 film the Commitments. The Commitments documents the rise and fall of an Irish "Soul" band in Dublin, a classic, funny, and moving story. The musical performances of 60s and 70s American soul music are remarkable, and Natalie's force and presence in the band are remarkable.
Maria released her first album “When Justice Came” in 1989 with The Black Velvet Band. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1989 It reached No.4 in the Irish charts and is ranked among the best Irish albums of the Late 1980s. She then united with producers Clive Langer and Allen Winstanley to record her second Black Velvet Band album "King Of Myself" in 1992. Irish music magazine Hot Press later called her "The finest voice this country has ever produced."
'The Lady Sings The Blues' a compilation Album featuring Maria alongside Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Annie Lennox, followed and proved to be a best selling album in 1994. It also established Maria in new markets in Europe the US and Japan. Touring Europe for the first time, she got rave reviews from The Guardian, The Times and others.
Maria produced a documentary -Golden Boy- based on the life and work of Irish artist Patrick Scott and has appeared as a broadcaster on Irish television filling in for John Kelly on his Mystery Train show and for Tom Dunne on Pet Sounds.[1]
[edit]Acting career
In 2007 and 2008, Maria played Queen Katherine of Aragon (King Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I of England) on The Tudors.[2] She was rumoured to have returned as Katherine of Aragon in a dream sequence to The Tudors for the fourth and final season in mid 2010,and this was confirmed when the first promotional picture of the season showed Katherine (along with King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr) on the cover. Kennedy will appear on Irish screens early in 2011 on TG4's Corp & Anam in her first Irish language acting role. Kennedy portrayed Sonya, a nanny to Dexter Morgan's son Harrison in the fifth season of Dexter.[3] It was announced on February 18th, 2011 that Kennedy had signed on for series 2 of ITV period drama Downton Abbey, appearing as Vera Bates.
[edit]Personal life
In 1988, she married musician Kieran Kennedy, with whom she has four sons, Louis, Jesse James, Daniel and Salvador. Kennedy speaks fluent Irish.
Bye Bye Baby
Maria Doyle Lyrics
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And you broke it apart
Why did our love baby, yeah yeah
Have to ever start
You know you took my love, threw it away
You gonna want, my love someday
Well a bye bye baby
Well I thought your love
Was oh so true
And you lured me baby, yeah
Started loving you
You know you took my love, threw it away
You gonna want, my love someday
Well a bye bye baby
(Bye bye bye)
Well, your love was
Sweeter than
Any I know
So don't come back
Running
Knockin' on my front door
Well you said that I
Was your only girl
And there was no others, yeah
In this whole wide world
You know you took my love, threw it away
You gonna want, my love someday
Well a bye bye baby
(Bye bye bye)
Well, your love was
Sweeter than
Any I know
So don't come back
Running
Knockin' on my front door
Well you said that I
Was your only girl
And there was no others, yeah
In this whole wide world
You know you took my love, threw it away
You gonna want, my love someday
Well a bye bye baby
(bye bye baby)
Whoah, bye bye baby
(Bye bye baby)
Bye, I don't want you know more
(Bye bye bye)
Bye, bye baby
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
Whooo, don't need your love, yeah yeah
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
I don't want you baby, whoooo
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
Bye bye baby, yeah
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
Bye bye baby, ohh
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
The song "Bye Bye Baby" by Maria Doyle talks about a love that was betrayed and ended badly. The song is directed towards the person who broke Doyle's heart and left her with shattered emotions. The lyrics describe how the relationship started out with so much promise, but eventually went downhill, leaving the singer feeling hurt and angry. The chorus repeats the phrase "Bye Bye Baby," which indicates that she is done with the relationship and wants to move on.
The first verse talks about how the person took Doyle's heart and broke it into pieces. She questions why the love had to start in the first place if it would only lead to heartbreak. The second verse explains how the person lured her into loving them, only to throw it away in the end. The bridge describes how the person's love was once sweeter than any other, but now the singer does not want them to come back, even if they realize their mistake.
The song is raw and emotional, with Doyle's powerful voice conveying the pain and anger within the lyrics. It's a relatable song that speaks to anyone who has experienced heartbreak and the difficulty of moving on from a failed relationship.
Line by Line Meaning
Well, you know you took my heart
You knew that you had my heart
And you broke it apart
And you shattered it, left me in pieces
Why did our love baby, yeah yeah
Why did our love ever exist?
Have to ever start
Why did we start this relationship in the first place?
Well I thought your love
Was oh so true
I believed that your love was sincere
And you lured me baby, yeah
And you seduced me in, sweet-talking and charming me
Started loving you
And I fell in love with you
Well your love was
Sweeter than
Any I know
Your love was the sweetest I'd ever known
So don't come back
Running
Knockin' on my front door
So don't bother showing up at my door, trying to come back to me
Well you said that I
Was your only girl
You told me that I was your one and only
And there was no others, yeah
In this whole wide world
And that there was nobody else in the world for you
Bye bye baby
(Bye bye bye)
Goodbye, I'm done with you
Whoah, bye bye baby
(Bye bye baby)
Goodbye, I'm finished with you
Bye, I don't want you know more
(Bye bye bye)
Goodbye, I no longer want you in my life
Bye bye baby
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
Goodbye, I'm moving on from you
Whooo, don't need your love, yeah yeah
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
I don't need your love anymore, I'm saying goodbye
I don't want you baby, whoooo
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
I don't want you anymore, I'm done
Bye bye baby, yeah
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
So long, I'm saying farewell
Bye bye baby, ohh
(Bye bye baby, bye bye)
Goodbye, I'm walking away
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: MARY WELLS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@survivor648
Such a great movie and soundtrack I had the CD after watching.
@MrSalvia18
Just turned 30 and just watched this film tonight for very 1st time out all the films online I randomly chose this and it was Class! fare play 👍❤
@survivor648
Look how young she is! I’m watching Orphan Black and she’s older. I didn’t know she was in this movie that I watched years ago!
@Lemev
Deco is bored AF! 😂😂😂😂
@janetmcguffey1394
her voice is interesting but not STAR POWER...she herself is adorable and grabs attention!!! Learned about her from her great acting in THE TUDORS...
@nancybrown6375
Not star power? Hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIiw7iofwU
@fuq1nutube
Song name
@JUNYA0711
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-QUOP8jlQ
@rainer288
Mary Wells - Bye Bye Baby