Fascinating aida dillie keane biography
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Dillie Keane
English actress and singer (born )
Louise Miriam "Dillie" Keane (born 23 May [1]) is an actress, singer and comedian. She has been a member of the comedy cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda since its inception, and has also pursued a solo career. In , with Fascinating Aïda, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.
Early life
[edit]Born in Portsmouth in , Keane is the daughter of Frank Keane, a doctor from County Mayo, and Miriam Slattery, originally from Tralee, County Kerry, and was brought up in Portsmouth as a Roman Catholic.[2] "My mother was a dragon," Keane said in [3]
Keane was educated at the strict Roman Catholic Woldingham School (or Sacred Heart), where she sang in the school choir and played the guitar on the Folk Mass album recorded by some of the girls at Abbey Road Studios in She has described the school as disorganised. At the age of eighteen, she was expelled for going to see Fell
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Fascinating Aïda
British comedy singing group and cabaret act
Fascinating Aïda is a British comedy singing group and satiricalcabaret act founded in March The line-up consists of founder member Dillie Keane; Adèle Anderson, who joined in ; and Liza Pulman, who first joined in
The group received a Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Festival, and went on to be nominated three times for the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment (, and ), and twice for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue ( and ). Keane and Anderson were also nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
History
[edit]Fascinating Aïda was founded in March by Dillie Keane,[1] along with Marilyn Cutts and Lizzie Richardson. The members have varied frequently, but the central two have been Adèle Anderson – who joined the group in – and Keane. The trio started performing in a West Endwine bar,[2] but they soon caught the attention of the media and performed on tele
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Biographies
Issy was the longest serving of all the FA sopranos. During her fem years with the group she won the hearts of many fans from all round the world. Born in Hong Kong to Dutch parents, naturally. Lived in Japan, South Africa and then back to Hong Kong. Aged 9 was sent to Prep School in England then on to boarding school &#; after a mutual parting of the ways between Head Mistress and pupil &#; Issy decided it was time to move on, which she did, to London for a year of ‘A’ levels at Queensgate.
Having done a lot of singing and acting at school… Amahl in Amahl and The Night Visitors, St Matthews Passion at the Festival Hall, conducted by Sir David Wilcox… Issy discovered the joys of Vodka and Marlboro cigarettes and decided the life of an estate agent was for her, until a timely run in with the Chelsea police. She had dabbled with cooking, secretarial work, travel agency and interior design on her voyage of discovery.
At this time, Issy was suffering withdrawal symptoms,