Voice of marriage equality campaign releasing debut album
JACK O’ROURKE is glad he waited. The ‘Silence’ singer has been quietly toiling on songs for years. But it is only now, in his early 30s, that he is enjoying the sort of success young artists dream of — a fairytale that has included a performance on The Late Late Show, sell-out gigs in Dublin and Cork and ‘new big thing’ chatter from Irish music’s people in the know.
“A lot of friends and family would say, ‘When are you going to let these songs out there?,” he says. “I’m really happy I held back until now. As you get older you become more comfortable in your own skin and have a stronger sense of what you want. Had I come out with this material six years ago, the results would have been very different.”
