This Much I Know: Lorraine Keane

 Lorraine Keane  Picture: Anthony Woods

I come from a large family and I have five sisters and one brother. We are all very outgoing and chatty. My father is a professional full-time musician and we grew up surrounded by music and we are all musical. We are also very close in age so we were compared to the Von Trapp family from The Sound of Music growing up — just without the matching clothes made out of curtains!

My parents say I came out talking and I haven’t shut up since so I suppose the fact that I made a career out of it is pretty handy! I was also never camera shy. There isn’t one frame of cine camera video footage of us all growing up where I don’t shimmy across the screen pulling focus from whoever was supposed to be the focus... cheesy grins and show hands at the ready!  My earliest memory is singing Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree for my grandad every Sunday in my grandparents' house.