Gemma Hasson is a Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

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 folk singer that recorded three studio albums from 1974 to 1978. Her first one, Introducing Ireland's Gemma Hasson was released in 1974 on Dolphin Records label and produced by Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...

. She then signed with EMI Records

EMI Records

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 and launched two more album: Looking for the Morning

Looking for the Morning

-Personnel:*Gemma Hasson – vocals, guitars*Leo O'Kelly – guitars, mandolin, fiddle, vocals*Paul Barrett – keyboards, bass guitar, vocals*Michael Fitzgerald – guitars on "Rathdrum Fair", vocals*Dónal Lunny – bouzouki, bodhrán, whistle...

in 1975 (produced by Leo O'Kelly

Leo O'Kelly

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) and I've Never Been to Me... in 1978. Several singles were issued on Ritz Records and private label in the 1980s.

Most of the materials she sings are covers of Irish traditional

Folk music of Ireland

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 although she also recorded some contemporary songs (like Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

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's "Urge for Going") and has written some of them.

Discography

• Introducing Ireland's Gemma Hasson (1974)
• Looking for the Morning
  Looking for the Morning
  -Personnel:*Gemma Hasson – vocals, guitars*Leo O'Kelly – guitars, mandolin, fiddle, vocals*Paul Barrett – keyboards, bass guitar, vocals*Michael Fitzgerald – guitars on "Rathdrum Fair", vocals*Dónal Lunny – bouzouki, bodhrán, whistle...
  
  (1975)
• I've Never Been to Me... (1978)