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Johnny Duhan started his career as a fifteen year old front man in the Limerick beat group Granny’s Intentions, one of the most popular bands in Ireland in the mid to late '60s. Initially playing clubs and halls around Ireland, they moved to London, being one of the first Irish bands to do so. They were signed to the Deram record label, released several singles and one album, Honest Injun, and disbanded before Johnny was twenty one.

Despite offers to front other bands, Johnny turned his back on the popular music industry and started writing folk songs, poetry and prose. He has condensed a body of work spanning 40 years into a quartet of albums, Just Another Town, To The Light, The Voyage and Flame. These correspond with the four chapters of his lyrical autobiography, To The Light.

His songs are sung all over the world in a variety of languages, thanks to the focus put on them by Christy Moore, The Dubliners, Mary Black and many other Irish and international singers.

Johnny is probably best known nowadays as the writer of Christy Moore's song, The Voyage. Christy recently stated that The Voyage (his most popular song according to iTunes) has been performed at over a million weddings worldwide, not to mention anniversaries, funerals and other occasions^[1]. Christy's version of this song constantly hovers around the number one spot in the Irish Folk Section of iTunes downloads^[2].

More recently, Celtic Thunder have done a cover of The Voyage.

Discography

Flame
Tree
The Voyage (2005)
Just Another Town (2007)
To The Light (2008)
The Burning Word (2010)

Books

There is a Time (Brandon Books, 2001) ISBN 9780863222832
The Voyage - Johnny Duhan Songbook (Waltons Publishers, 2003) ISBN 1857201515
To The Light (Bell Productions, 2009) ISBN 9780955510618

References

External links

Category:Irish musicians

[1] ttp://www.imro.ie/imro_article/johnny-duhan-1

[2] ttp://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10folksongs.html

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	Johnny is probably best known nowadays as the writer of Christy Moore's song, The Voyage. Christy recently stated that The Voyage (his most popular song according to iTunes) has been performed at over a million weddings worldwide, not to mention anniversaries, funerals and other occasions<ref>http://www.imro.ie/imro_article/johnny-duhan-1</ref>. Christy's version of this song constantly hovers around the number one spot in the Irish Folk Section of iTunes downloads<ref>http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10folksongs.html</ref>.		Johnny is probably best known nowadays as the writer of Christy Moore's song, The Voyage. Christy recently stated that The Voyage (his most popular song according to iTunes) has been performed at over a million weddings worldwide, not to mention anniversaries, funerals and other occasions<ref>http://www.imro.ie/imro_article/johnny-duhan-1</ref>. Christy's version of this song constantly hovers around the number one spot in the Irish Folk Section of iTunes downloads<ref>http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10folksongs.html</ref>.

	More recently, [[Celtic Thunder]] have done a cover of The Voyage.		More recently, [[Celtic Thunder]] have done a cover of '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CHS5Tj1h_A The Voyage]'''''.