Juliet Turner

Juliet Turner is a Northern Irish singer/songwriter. She comes from Tummery, near Omagh, Co. Tyrone, and has been a part of the Dublin music scene since she started recording in 1996. In the course of her career she has opened for such artists as Bob Dylan, U2 and Bryan Adams. Turner also sang on two tracks of Peter Mulvey's live album Glencree.

In August 1998, Turner sang the song "Broken Things" (originally released by American Julie Miller) to a packed audience at the memorial concert for the victims of the Omagh bombing. She ruled out releasing the song as a single.

In autumn 2002 Turner picked up a “Best Newcomer in Music” award from the London based “Irish Post” newspaper and another award for her contribution to music from Tatler Magazine at their Women of the Year ceremony in Dublin – Turner was the first woman to receive this award.

In February 2005, Juliet Turner was awarded the Meteor Music Award for best Irish female performer.

Currently she is study for a degree in speech therapy at Trinity alongside her music career.

Discography

Albums:

1996 - Let's Hear It For Pizza
2000 - Burn The Black Suit
2004 - Season Of The Hurricane
2005 - Live from the Spirit Store

Singles:

2000 - Take The Money And Run
2000 - Dr Fell'
2001 - Burn The Black Suit
2003 - Everything Beautiful Is Burning/Tuesday Night Ladies
2004 - 1987/Belfast Central
2004 - Vampire/Instrumental
2005 - Business as Usual/The Girl with the Smile

Turner covered Britney Spears' Toxic for Today FM's cd Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2 She recorded a cover of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2 for volume 3.

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