About Orla Gartland
Orla Gartland is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician. Gartland released her debut album, Woman on the Internet, in 2021, which reached number 3 on the Irish album chart, number 1 on the UK Indie Chart, and number 10 on the UK album chart. Her second album Everybody Needs a Hero came out in October 2024.
Additionally, she has released five EPs: Freckle Season , Why Am I Like This? , Lonely People , Roots , and Laughing at My Own Jokes .
In 2023, she joined the group Fizz, with Dodie, Greta Isaac, and Martin Luke Brown. Their debut album, The Secret to Life, was released on 27 October, 2023, on Decca Records.
Gartland grew up in Drumcondra, Northside, Dublin near Croke Park. She has a younger sister and a younger brother. In an interview with Campus.ie, Gartland stated "I played violin, fiddle, and trad and Irish stuff from the age of about five years old...my parents got me into lessons and the guitar at about 12 years old and it went from there." She nearly went to BIMM University, but deferred her application and moved to London in 2015, as she knew many UK-based musicians through YouTube.
In 2009, Gartland launched her YouTube channel under the name "MusicMaaad." She posted her first YouTube video at age 13, about which she stated "I had been playing guitar for just over a year and wailing alongside the chords. I hadn't a clue how to sing; the breathing or any of the technical stuff – so just wanted some feedback on that really!". She posted covers and then started posting originals. The first original she posted was titled "Green Eyed Monster." Gartland also spent time busking on the streets of Dublin as a teen, through which she befriended the folk and Americana duo Hudson Taylor.
In 2012, Gartland opened for Britain's Got Talent contestant Ryan O'Shaughnessy at The Academy and for Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt at Bewley's Cafe Theatre. She released her debut single "Devil on my Shoulder" on 17 June on iTunes, where it reached No. 2 on the Ireland singer-songwriter chart. The single was launched at a sold-out show headlined by Gartland at The Academy in Dublin.
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