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Damien Rice

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Biography

Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice launched his music career in the late-'90s with the hard-hitting rock outfit Juniper. The group signed to Polygram in 1997 and released two singles, "The World Is Dead" and "Weathermen," which did moderately well on Irish radio, but when it came time to record a full-length album, contractual rules from the label prevented Juniper from doing so, and Rice split. After a brief respite in Europe, Rice returned to Dublin to focus on music once again, scrounging up enough money to record a demo. He sent it to producer/film composer David Arnold (Björk, Nina Persson, Paul Oakenfold), and luckily for him, Arnold loved it and set Rice up in his very own mobile studio to make a record. His first single, "The Blower's Daughter," was an instant Top 20 hit when it appeared in fall 2001. Shared gigs with McAlmont & Butler and folkie Kathryn Williams followed in summer 2002 when Rice released O in the U.K. The album hit the States in 2003, which earned the Irishman a dedicated group of American fans in addition to his European ones, and after satiating all of them with a collection of B-sides in 2005, Rice released his sophomore record, 9. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi

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    There's still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
    Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
    It's still a little harder to say what's going on
    There's till a little bit of your ghost, your witness
    Still a little bit of your face I haven't kissed
    Cannonball - (5:11)  -  169,470 plays
  2.  
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    Leave me out with the waste
    This is not what I do
    It's the wrong kind of place
    To be thinking of you
    It's the wrong time
    9 Crimes - (3:39)  -  219,540 plays
  3.  
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    We might kiss when we are alone
    When nobody's watching
    We might take it home
    We might make out when nobody's there
    It's not that we're scared
    Delicate - (5:12)  -  135,483 plays
  4.  
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    And so it is
    Just like you said, it would be
    Life goes easy on me
    Most of the time
    And so it is, he has
    The Blower's Daughter - (4:42)  -  147,253 plays
  5.  
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    Don't hold yourself like that
    'Cause you'll hurt your knees
    I kissed your mouth and back
    That's all I need
    Don't build your world around
    Volcano - (2:36)  -  107,564 plays
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