Shakespears Sister was conceived as a solo project by Siobhan Fahey, a one-time punk turned chart-pop singer who had left the successful British/Irish girl-group Bananarama in 1988, due to disillusionment with the group's musical direction.
Fahey left the group because of the male-dominated music industry was changing the group into a sugar-coated pop group. She left the group right before they were supposed to do a world tour and sadly the US was eventually lopped off that tour.
Bananarama have announced a shock reunion with founder member Siobhan Fahey, who rejoins the band after leaving more than 30 years ago. Fahey left the group in 1988 and will now join Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward for a hugely-anticipated 15-date nationwide theatre tour.
Bananarama started in London, in 1979. Dallin and Woodward had been best friends since they were four and their closeness, even now in their mid-50s, is palpable – they still sometimes go on holiday together, and say their kids are like siblings.
Fahey married Dave Stewart of Eurythmics in 1987 but divorced in 1996. The couple have two sons, Sam (born 1987) and Django James (born 1991). The two brothers formed a musical band called Nightmare & The Cat.
Siobhan Fahey says 'sexism’ drove her out of Bananarama
What is Siobhan Fahey doing now?
In 2014 she joined the line-up of Dexys Midnight Runners for some shows, including at Glastonbury Festival. In 2017, it was announced that Fahey had joined her former Bananarama bandmates for an upcoming UK tour. This was the first live tour Fahey has done as a member of Bananarama.
From 1990 to 2017, Ridgeley was in a relationship with Keren Woodward, a member of the group Bananarama. They lived with her son in a restored 15th-century farm property near Wadebridge, Cornwall.
The constant emphasis by the music press that she was the "new girl" , along with constant asks of 'How does it feel to replace Siobhan?' and that she herself had a lack of a voice in group decisions prompted her to exit Bananarama, a split which was amicable with remaining members Dallin and Woodward.
In 1986, English girl group Bananarama covered "Venus" for their third studio album, True Confessions, with the single reaching number one in six countries. The composition has been featured in numerous films, television shows, and commercials.
She was engaged the dancer Bassey Walker (who was one of the dancers at the time) with whom she had a daughter, Alice Dallin-Walker born in 1991, but later they both separated and a marriage never happened. She and Keren Woodward are possibly known as really private women.
Bananarama was originally made up of Sara and Keren, both 62, and Siobhan Fahey. Siobhan, now 65, left the group in 1988 and was briefly replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when Sara and Keren continued the group as a duo.
Which member of Bananarama was married to Dave Stewart?
He was in a relationship with Annie Lennox for three years in the late 1970s, before they formed the Eurythmics. Stewart married former Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey (who later formed Shakespears Sister) in 1987. The couple have two sons, Sam and Django.
On this day in 1986, the Bananarama single “Venus” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #89 (June 28) The 1969 hit by Dutch band Shocking Blue had been a part of Bananarama's repertoire for several years before they actually recorded it.
Shakespears Sister are an alternative pop and rock musical duo that was formed in 1988 by Irish singer-songwriter Siobhan Fahey, a former member of Bananarama. Shakespears Sister was initially a solo act but became a duo by 1989 with the addition of American musician Marcella Detroit.
But at the height of their dominance, the trio lost a leg — Siobhan Fahey, an original member along with Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, left the group after the Wow! album.
Jacquie O'Sullivan (born 7 August 1960) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group Bananarama from 1988 until 1991, replacing Siobhan Fahey, who left in early 1988.
In early 1988, Jacquie O'Sullivan replaced Fahey, who went on to form Shakespears Sister. O'Sullivan left the group in 1991, since which time Dallin and Woodward have continued as a duo, with the brief exception of a one-off reunion tour with Fahey during 2017.
Bananarama are a British female pop duo. The current band members are Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward. The group was formed in 1979 in London by Dallin, Woodward and Siobhan Fahey.
The name was inspired by the Roxy Music song Pyjamarama- and bananas as they felt it was exotic. 🍌 If you want to see Bananarama in action then catch them at this years 80s Mixtape 📆 Fri 29 Aug https://orlo.uk/OXVgO.
"Venus" is a 1969 song by the Dutch band Shocking Blue which the group took to number one in nine countries in 1970. In 1986, the British girl group Bananarama returned the song to number one in seven countries.
