When we first started performing together, it was along with two other singers, Sarah Elaine and Meadhbh Sullivan, doing jazz/60′s girl-group numbers as the opening act for the Cuckoo’s Nest weekly cabaret night, as well as solo jazz standards from Alex.

This developed into a weekend residency playing jazz standards, and our own jazz-influenced takes on pop and rock songs such as Gossip’s Standing In The Way Of Control, Jason Mraz’s You And I Both and Mr. Zebra by Tori Amos.

For special occasions we drafted in some local brass players, and a drummer, to give a big-band jazz sound to classics like Big Spender and Feelin’ Good.

It was a big departure for me, going from adding piano to Anna Lee’s original songs to interpreting jazz standards and other covers with Alex, but it really expanded my range musically and taught me to use the piano in different ways.

Alex has since moved back to Australia, but is still making beautiful music. Check out her sublime vocals at her myspace:
MYSPACE: Alex Hahn

Check out his new album on his website, which is hitting shops in October.

And you can listen to more of his music at his MySpace page, including his amazing cover of Two Of Hearts as well as his original songs.

Why is he an inspiration? He’s done it all himself with style and determination.

Oh, and he’s dating Christian Siriano, and together they are officially the best gay couple ever. He writes the music for Christian’s runway shows too. You can hear a clip of that music in this video (skip forward about 30seconds)

I spent about two years in total playing with her, gigging around Ireland and a little bit around the UK too, before she headed off to Spain. I’ve known her since university, and we both used to play the singer-songwriter night in uni. She’s got a fantastic voice, and has released one EP so far, but I’m hoping she’ll release a full album. Here’s one of the tracks from that EP:

The video was shot and edited really badly by myself, and I helped her put together the EP for release, including working on the cover design and getting it available for sale. It was definitely a learning experience for me.

We had some great gigs playing together as “Husband | Wife” and just with me accompanying her as a session pianist. We shared a house together for about a year, and would practice and mess around with music at home. Here’s a cover of Portishead’s “Glory Box” that was recorded in our living room one afternoon back in 2006. Just ignore us messing around at the start ;)

We never really recorded anything together, other than some random live videos that are floating around, or little demos from our living room, or little videos like that one on youtube. DIY music most definitely.

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