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Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

I love to sing with great singers.

I love to sing with different people.