Ireland - MUSIC

THE CRANBERRIES

The Cranberries is an Irish rock band from Limerick, popular in 1990. Although the group did not officially split, its members announced in 2003 that they would focus some time solely on their solo careers. After more than six years of absence, the group returned to the front of the scene in late 2009 with a U.S. and European tour which lasted until autumn 2010. The band sold over 38 million records worldwide.

In 1989 Noel Hogan and Mike Hogan, two brothers from a suburban area, formed a band with the drummer Fergal Lawler, a childhood friend. Initially, the singer and songwriter of the group was one of their friends, Niall Quinn, he directed the group to parody rock with songs like My Granny Drowned in a Fountain in Lourdes, I Was Always All Ways or Down Throw Me in a Big Stair. It was also he who decided to baptize the band " The Cranberry Saw Us" because, delivered quickly, it sounded like cranberry sauce, a typical accompaniment of the Thanksgiving meal.

At that time , the group repeated on the weekends and their fame was limited to a handful of people in Limerick. In 1990, Nial Quinn decided to join another group because he considered that Cranberry lacked of future plans. Before leaving, Quinn said to the band the name of a classmate of his girlfriend who could replace him: Dolores O'Riordan. Fame wasn't long after that.

In 2003, the Cranberries announced their decision to take a little time to pursue each individual careers. Dolores O'Riordan recorded a solo album released in 2007: Are You Listening, and Noel Hogan a guitar album, including notably two songs launched in November 2004 on the European iTunes music download service under the name "Mono Band." On the other hand, Dolores O'Riordan sang the title song of the film The Passion of the Christ and composed a song for the film Evilenko with Malcolm McDowell. She sang in 1997 God Be with You credits of the film The Devil's Own with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt.

The composition of the group has never changed and has four members, all from around Limerick.

Zombie was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland in 1994. It was written during the Cranberries' English Tour in 1993 in memory of two boys, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed by the Provisional IRA in the bombings of Warrington, March 20, 1993. The song won the MTV European Music Award in 1995. In 2011, the Swedish-Congolese singer Mohombi took up the chorus of the title, where he replaced the word Zombie by Mohombi. Mohombi declared that he chose the song Zombie because in his native country he has known war and several members of his family died. To honor his family, he took over this song.

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