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Dermot Kennedy (Tallaght, 13 december 1991) is een Iers singer-songwriter. Hij verwierf bekendheid in Nederland en België door zijn single Power Over Me die de Nederlandse Top 40 en de Vlaamse hitlijsten heeft bereikt. Begin 2019 bracht hij het album Dermot Kennedy uit, met daarop voorheen uitgebrachte nummers. Later in 2019 volgde hij dit op met het album Without Fear en in 2022 kwam hij met het album Sonder. Na Power Over Me had hij onder andere hitsuccessen met Paradise en Better Days. Top 2000 - Nieuws - vrijdag 6 december 2024: Eerbetoon aan Eva Hermans-Kroot: zesde plaats in de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 Better Days van Dermot Kennedy komt op de zesde plaats binnen in de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 van 2024. Stemmers brengen met hun keuze voor dit nummer in de lijst der lijsten een eerbetoon aan de onlangs aan longkanker overleden Eva Hermans-Kroot. Better Days was haar lievelingsnummer, omdat het haar houvast bood tijdens haar ziekte. Eva Hermans-Kroot deelde haar verhaal met Nederland in diverse media. |
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Dermot Kennedy grew up in Rathcoole, County Dublin, Ireland. An avid football fan and player, Kennedy started playing guitar at age 10, and songwriting at age 14; however, he states that he did not begin to take music seriously until the age of 17. Dermot Kennedy officially began his career busking at 17 years old; however, his career did not become viable until his mid-twenties, having spent over a decade in the industry. Through busking, he was able to develop his sound, travelling to multiple major cities such as Dublin, Ireland and Boston, US to perform. In 2015, Kennedy uploaded the song "An Evening I Will Not Forget" to the streaming platform Spotify, with which he believed he was "really reaching people". He was also invited to open for Glen Hansard, whom he had previously met while busking in Dublin and stayed in touch with via text message. Outside of his solo career, Kennedy began a band named Shadows and Dust with three other members during his studies, which included Micheál Quinn, who is Kennedy's tour drummer. Although he enjoyed the experience, the band split up in 2015. In 2018 and 2019, he toured the US, Australia and Europe to sold-out audiences. His first festivals were Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2017; Lollapalooza, South by Southwest Festival and Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2018. He played Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival both weekends in 2019. |
| In 2018, he was voted by listeners as NPR Slingshot's Best New Artist of The Year, appeared on NPR's Music Tiny Desk Concert in a 14-minute live acoustic session, on WGBH's Fraser performance studio in a 20-minute live session. He made the BBC's Sound of 2019 nomination list. After releasing singles and EPs, Kennedy released his first complete album in late 2019, titled Without Fear. The album consists of many of his past works, with some even dated eight years prior to the album's release. Kennedy was nominated for international male solo artist at the 2020 Brit Awards. In 2021, Kennedy contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist. On 3 March 2022, Kennedy won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year 2021 for his song "Better Days". He released Sonder, his second studio album, on 18 November 2022. He describes the album title as "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." |