Wallis Bird

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Wallis Bird (* 29 January 1982 in Wexford) is an Irish musician. She lives and works in Mannheim, London and Dublin.

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[edit] Biography

The first time Wallis Bird came into touch with music, was at age 2 when she got her first guitar from her father. After losing a finger at a lawn mower accident, she became used to playing the guitar left-handed, which adds up to her unconventional guitar play.

After school Wallis moved to the Irish capital of Dublin to study songwriting at Ballyfermot Rock School. During that time she kept on playing in small clubs or pubs as well as on major festivals. She moved to Germany for an exchange program in 2005. Prolonging her Germany trip she met other musicians and formed a new supporting band. After concerts in Berlin, London, Frankfurt and Mannheim she decided to stay for a semester at a music college in Mannheim, where she lived for a year and a half.

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Wallis Bird is often compared to famous singer-songwriters like Ani DiFranco, Fiona Apple or the young Janis Joplin. In her songs she fuses elements of traditional folk music, blues and funk with an energetic handmade rock sound. Her exceptional voice allows for an already huge repertoire from soft folk ballads to rousing power songs.

Accompanied by her band colleagues, the brothers Christian and Michael Vinne and Aoife O'Sullivan, she is touring through Europe. In April 2006 her debuting EP "Branches Untangle" was released both in the UK and Germany by her own label "Bird Records".

In October 2006 Wallis signed a worldwide recording contract with "Island Records Group UK". Island Records will re-release her EP in the United Kingdom. A debut album is expected to follow in the beginning of 2007.

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