Kevin Connolly

b. Massachusetts, USA. American singer-songwriter Kevin Connolly was raised in the Irish working-class community jokingly known as the ‘Irish Riviera' between Boston and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Being half-Irish himself, Connolly found himself immediately attracted to the work of Van Morrison, and he has developed a similar approach to his idol in his ability to improvise words whilst allowing the musical backing to veer off into various tangents - without losing the thread of the song itself This approach, which he also analogised as working with musical textures that can ‘...