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Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician and founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical outfit Shakespears Sister.
Career
Siobhan was born the eldest of three daughters. Her other siblings are Máire and Niamh. Her parents Helen and Joseph Fahey both come from County Tipperary, Ireland. Fahey lived in Dublin for about two years, before her family moved to Yorkshire, England, where her father Joseph was posted as a soldier in the British Army. Her family subsequently moved to Germany, then returned to the U.K. where Siobhan was sent to a convent school in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended schools in Stroud, Gloucester and Kent in southern England. When she was fourteen, she and her family moved to Harpenden, and two years later, she left home for London and became involved in the punk scene of the late 1970s.
1979-1988: Bananarama
While in London, she took a course in fashion journalism where she met Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, and with the help of Sex Pistol Paul Cook, the trio formed Bananarama. The trio's first hit without Fun Boy Three was "Shy Boy", a song about heart-throb London pirate radio comedian Mark Gould, which entered the charts in Summer 1982 eventually peaking at #4. Fahey helped co-write many of the group's international hits, including "Cruel Summer", "Robert DeNiro's Waiting", "I Heard a Rumour", and "Love in the First Degree".
1988-1996: Shakespears Sister
In 1988, frustrated with the direction she felt Bananarama were heading, Fahey left the group and formed Shakespears Sister. Initially, Fahey effectively "was" Shakespears Sister, though American singer/songwriter Marcella Detroit later became an official member making the outfit a duo. The band was nominated for numerous awards and showed a darker, more sophisticated side to Fahey, who often appeared in the band's music videos and on-stage as a vampish glam figure. Tensions began to rise between the pair in real life, and Hormonally Yours was their last album together.
In 1993, Fahey admitted herself into a psychiatric unit with severe depression.
In June 1996, London records released "I Can Drive", the first single from Shakespears Sister's third album, which was her first record since her split with Marcella Detroit. The single performed disappointingly (UK number 30) and later London Records refused to release the album. Following this, Fahey left the label and after a lengthy battle with the label, Fahey finally released Shakespears Sister's, #3, independently through her website in 2004.
1997-2008: Solo years
In 1997, Fahey appeared opposite Martin Dunne in the Irish short film Pinned. She also briefly re-joined Bananarama in 1998 to record "Waterloo" for the Channel 4 Eurovision special A Song for Eurotrash. The song proved popular, winning the public vote for best song at the conclusion of the program.
Fahey again joined Bananarama in 2002 for a "last ever" reunion at the band's twentieth anniversary concert at G-A-Y in London. In front of 3000 fans, she joined Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin to perform "Venus" and "Waterloo".
Fahey continued to make music into the new millennium. She had an active website from 2002 until July 2007. In 2005, Fahey independently released The MGA Sessions, an album recorded with frequent collaborator Sophie Muller in the mid-1990s. The music was recorded for a film which ultimately was never made. Only 1000 copies of this release were pressed. Fahey's most recent single, "Bad Blood", was released on 17 October 2005. In 2006, Fahey's website stated that she had been writing for other people; these include (former Sugababe) Siobhán Donaghy and Kylie Minogue, though neither of these endeavours made it to the final cut.
Fahey's track "Bitter Pill" was partially covered by pop band The Pussycat Dolls in their 2005 debut album PCD. The verses (which were slightly altered) and the overall sound of the song are from "Bitter Pill", but added in was the chorus of Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff". The song was renamed "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)" and a remix was included as a b-side to their hit single "Beep".
On 13 November 2008, Fahey performed at the Pirate Provocateur Extravaganza launch party for the new Agent Provocateur winter collection, and for the release of Dirty Stop Out's new album Cuntro Classics at KOKO in London.
In 2008, Fahey appeared in the Chris Ward-written and directed short film What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor (based on the life of artist/model Nina Hamnett, self-styled "Queen of Bohemia"), with Fahey playing the role of Hamnett opposite actor Clive Arrindel, Donny Tourette (frontman with punk band Towers of London) and Honey Bane (former vocalist of the punk band Fatal Microbes).
2009-Present: Shakespears Sister re-launch
Fahey released the second Shakespears Sister album without Detroit in 2009. Entitled Songs from the Red Room, it was released on her own record label, SF Records. Fahey performed her first live show in almost 15 years as Shakespears Sister in Hoxton, London on 20 November 2009.
Personal life
Fahey married Dave Stewart of Eurythmics in 1987. The couple divorced in 1996.
The couple had two sons, Sam and Django James. The two brothers formed a musical band "Nightmare & The Cat". Django Stewart is also an actor.
Prior to her marriage to Stewart, Fahey was romantically involved with Jim Reilly, the drummer for the Northern Irish punk rock band Stiff Little Fingers and Scottish singer Bobby Bluebell of The Bluebells, with whom she co-wrote the UK #1 pop song "Young At Heart".
