As a member of Solas for four and a half years, Karan Casey has been critically acclaimed from Japan to America as one of Irelands greatest singers. The Wall Street Journal has described her as one of the true glories of Irish music today.
Karan has learned from a variety of musical sources, starting with church choir and local mentors Lupeta Sheenan and the Foran Family in her own parish Ballyduff Lower. After moving to Dublin for university studies in Italian and Classics, she also trained in piano and voice at the Irish School of Music and The Royal Irish Academy of Music. Meanwhile she sang in the jazz band Bourbon Street, was the resident singer in George's Bistro for two years and performed her own original songs with the group Dorothy.