Danny McNamara

Danny McNamara
Birth name	Daniel Anthony McNamara
Born	31 December 1970 (1970-12-31) (age 40)
Origin	Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire, England
Genres	Rock, Britpop
Occupations	Singer
Associated acts	Embrace

Danny McNamara (born Daniel Anthony McNamara, 31 December 1970, Bailiff Bridge, West Yorkshire, England) is the lead singer of English band Embrace.

Early years

Danny and his brother Richard (guitarist) grew up in the village of Bailiff Bridge, near Bradford, Huddersfield and Halifax, in West Yorkshire, England.

Aged 11, he passed his 11+ exam and gained entry to Hipperholme Grammar School, near Halifax. When he left school, he studied psychology at Manchester University, but eventually quit to concentrate on the band, and having become tired of commuting.

Embrace

Embrace are an English rock band from West Yorkshire. To date they have released five studio albums, one singles album and one b-sides compilation. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale and drummer Mike Heaton. The group has released five studio albums: The Good Will Out (1998) which went to number 1; Drawn from Memory (2000); If You've Never Been (2001); Out Of Nothing (2004) which also went to number 1 and This New Day (2006) was their most recent and also went to number one spawning their most successful single to date "Natures Law" which just missed the top spot by a few hundred copies. Their sixth, and as yet untitled, album is expected to be released some time in 2011.

Musician and performer

Embrace have not only enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim at home where they have picked up several awards and nominations including the coveted best new band award at the Brats, but they have also enjoyed similar success overseas, most notably in America where the band were put on the cover of billboard magazine, and in Thailand where their single "You're Not Alone" stayed at number 1 for six weeks becoming the biggest selling single of that year. Closer to home his band are famous for spearheading a movement which later became known as guerilla gigging. Secret gigs by the band so far have involved playing everywhere from beaches and forests to most notoriously a staged break in of the big brother house.^[1]

Conditions

McNamara suffers from the hearing condition, tinnitus, and fronted a campaign for the condition.^[2][3]

DJ

Recently, Danny and his brother have been involved in DJ sessions. The first was at Get Loaded in the Park festival in Cardiff, and then on a weekly basis, as part of "Another Music = Another Kitchen" (named after a song by the Buzzcocks), at the Proud Gallery nightclub in Camden, London.

They also did a set for a special aftershow party for their gig at Manchester Apollo in October 2006, which was opened up to the public, as well as one-off sets with Richard in Bristol and Cheltenham, and even more recently in Huddersfield.

McNamara now owns Moho Live in Manchester and continues to run 'The Aftershow' where young talented bands are invited to play.

References

1. ^ EMBRACE’S LATEST SECRET GIG….IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE! | music news | ilikemusic.com
2. ^ BBC NEWS | Health | Band plug in to protect hearing
3. ^ Embrace : News Archive

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