Fiona Kennedy: 'To survive as a woman in the music industry, you have to have strength'

My big break came when I won Screen Test, the first ever Irish TV talent show hosted by Mike Murphy.
Fiona Kennedy: 'To survive as a woman in the music industry, you have to have strength'

Fiona Kennedy will launch ‘Natural Woman’ at Cork Arts Theatre (CAT Club) next month. Picture: Larry Cummins

Fiona Kennedy has always been her own woman. Like when she played Patricia the Stripper in the halla of her convent secondary school, back when she was a teen growing up in Bishopstown.

And the night in the 1980s when she took on a rural bar-owner who was refusing to pay her, even though her gig had brought the house down.

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