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TOMMY FLEMING – A JOURNEY HOME

www.tommyfleming.net

New Album “A Journey Home” – Out 26th October
New Single “The Quest” – Out 19th October

Tommy Fleming has many times been described as the “Voice of Ireland” Tommy is one of Ireland’s top entertainers and has had a hugely successful career over the past 15 years. Tommy Fleming – is Ireland’s biggest selling Irish artist over recent years .

His “Voice of Hope” album was the number one selling CD and number two selling DVD in 2005/6. This success has been followed with a new studio album entitled “A Life Like Mine”, released under his new record label - Universal Music – the first of a recently signed five album deal and this album also went Platinum. His concerts are the biggest selling shows in venues throughout the entire island and these successes have come after 15 years of hard graft. One of those –“15 years to become an overnight success” scenarios!

His latest project has been completed July ‘07 and is due for release in Ireland on October 26th 2007. This album is called “ A Journey Home” and is presented in two formats, a double CD and a DVD recorded live at the INEC in Killarney (March 07) with 36 muscians plus backing singers, no small production!! It catalogues the “journey” of Irish music from Thomas Moore to U2.

Tommy Fleming had the biggest selling album in Ireland in 2005/06 “The Voice of Hope” CD and DVD. Followed by another huge success in 2006 with his studio Album “A Life like Mine” Tommy is now Ireland’s leading male singer and is big demand all over the world.

Tommy Fleming was born in Aclare Co. Sligo, Ireland in 1971 the youngest of six children Tommy started singing while still at school, while fronting his own local band a chance encounter with Phil Coulter at a charity function near his home lead to a big break onto the world stage where Tommy appeared as a guest singer on Phil’s USA tour. This lead to Tommy entering into the music business as a solo Artist. Shortly after securing a record deal everything looked set to flourish when a tragic car accident left Tommy with a broken neck and a music career cut short, miraculously after many months of convalescents Tommy returned to the stage but had to start over and is now regarded as one of Irelands finest singers worldwide.

Tommy Fleming turns each song into his own with his own unique and powerful style touching emotions in you that only music can reach. Tommy is famous for his own arrangement of “Danny Boy”, “Isle of Innisfree” and “Hard Times” all songs that you know and love but you have never heard them until you hear Tommy Fleming’s versions, he also covers songs from “You Raise Me Up” to “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, “Four Green Fields” “Summer in Dublin” and “Something Inside so Strong”.

A Tommy Fleming concert is a musical experience not to be missed with spine tingling haunting musical experiences, one song more powerful than the other. Tommy’s fans range from 5 to 100 and the one compliment he constantly receives after a show is that he performs his songs as if one was listening to his albums at home a credit that many Artists would give their right arm for.

Don’t miss your opportunity to experience the Tommy Fleming Experience live.
For further information on Tommy www.tommyfleming.net or email: anne.pennefather@umusic.com

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