Eimear Quinn

The Irish-born winner of the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest, Eimear Quinn first came to prominence the previous year as a member of Irish medieval chorale group Anúna. She appears on two of that band's albums, Omnis and Deep Dead Blue, and it was during her tenure with the group, at a performance at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, that songwriter Brendan Graham approached her with a song he'd written for the upcoming Irish Eurovision qualifiers, "The Voice." The song triumphed both locally and at the international competition. Departing Anúna in 1996, Quinn launched a solo ca...