{"id":4890,"date":"2026-04-14T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:33:27","slug":"grammy-and-emmy-winning-singer-dies-as-tributes-pour-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4890","title":{"rendered":"Grammy and Emmy winning singer dies as tributes pour in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Heartbreaking news just in.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>The Irish singer, Moya Brennan, who was best known as the sniger of Clannad, has died at the age of 73.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Brennan, who was the eldest of nine children, came to prominence when she began performing with her family in Clannad in 1970.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Clannad found chat success with the theme of the 1982 show Harry&#8217;s Game which was set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>She later collaborated with artists such as Mick Jagger, Paul Young, and Bono.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Fellow Donegal singer, Daniel O&#8217;Donnell paid tribute to Brennan, saying: &#8220;She loved being home and loved being here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;She loved the music, and she loved to see people doing well. Especially in these last few years, she loved giving young singers a chance \u2013 that was her focus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;She was Donegal Person of the Year two years ago, and the important thing in anyone&#8217;s life is that your own locality recognises whatever you&#8217;re doing, and that was certainly the case for Moya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;Everyone around here loved her, and when you met her, she had a great peace about her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Grammy #Emmy #winning #singer #dies #tributes #pour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartbreaking news just in. The Irish singer, Moya Brennan, who was best known as the sniger of Clannad, has died at the age of 73. Brennan, who was the eldest of nine children, came to prominence when she began performing with her family in Clannad in 1970. Clannad found chat success with the theme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[198,5066,5065,904,2931,4632,717],"class_list":{"0":"post-4890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-dies","9":"tag-emmy","10":"tag-grammy","11":"tag-pour","12":"tag-singer","13":"tag-tributes","14":"tag-winning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}