Ryan O’Shaughnessy performs at IMRO First Cuts at Abner Brown's on Wednesday 18th April 2018.

IMRO First Cuts Showcases at Abner Brown’s features the best up and coming as well as established Irish acts. In the intimate setting performers are given the opportunity to debut new tracks along with their current material.

Ryan O’Shaughnessy was born in Dublin 1992 into a musical family, and became a student of Billy Barry at the age of 4. While studying at BIMM Dublin as a songwriter in 2012, Ryan penned his first collection of songs. Prior to the release of these songs, Ryan appeared on the finals of both The Voice of Ireland and Britains Got Talent in the same year. In his opening audition on Britain’s Got Talent, Ryan performed his now well renowned, self-penned song ‘No Name’ which has accumulated over 45 million hits on YouTube. He then returned to the semifinals with another self-penned song ‘First Kiss’. While signed to Sony UK, he worked on his EP which reached No.1 in Ireland for 3 consecutive weeks and No.9 in the UK charts, In this time Ryan toured the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland. In July 2013, it was announced that Ryan would be one of the artists taking part in the new Irish songwriting competition ‘The Hit’, going up against his former ‘The Voice’ coach Brian Kennedy. O’Shaughnessy chose to release ‘Who Do You Love?’ to enter the chart battle against Kennedy and won the chart battle with the single charting at No.3 in the Irish Single charts. Being placed on the global songwriting map at a young age, Ryan has had the pleasure of travelling and writing with some of the world’s greatest, including, Julia Fordham, Joy Williams, Mark Nevin, and Kimmie Rhodes, as well as writing and working for different publishing companies and studios. In the last 3 years O’Shaughnessy has toured the USA and Canada. But his love for songwriting and producing has seen him releasing music for himself and other artists through his recording label and studio ‘Bayview’. His latest album ‘Back to Square’ one shows a maturity in his songwriting and musical taste. Ryan is set to represent Ireland in the Eurovision this year with his song ‘Together’.

Video by Ian James White (IJW Creative Media)

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