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Anne had the classic 'show biz' start to her singing career appearing on stage at the age of three with her Mother and Father in amateur pantomime and musical shows all over Ireland. Her mother's family, the Bradys, hail from Dun Laoghaire in Co. Dublin and were all extremely musical. Her uncle was the famous Willie Brady who in the nineteen-fifties and sixties had been a recording artist for Avoca Records in the U.S.A. and Ireland. He was one of the first Irish artists to popularise the singing of Irish songs and ballads at this time and was frequently to be heard on Radio Eireann. Anne's professional singing career began when, at the age of seventeen, she won first prize in the Father Mathew Feis which brought her exceptional singing ability to the attention of a wider audiance. |
began to run ballad sessions and before long Anne was to become the leading female singer at this venue. Her artistry soon attaracted the attention of the burgeoning Telfis Eireann and she was to become a regular performer on the numerous folk and ballad prorammes produced during the sixties and early seventies.
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