Majella O'Shea

Majella's debut album "Tangent's Trail" picked up Sydney Brag's Album of the Week and received rave reviews: "a spell-binding voice that prickles the skin……doesn't just sing the obvious, pop-like mlody lines, she explores their outskirts"(Sydney Morning Herald); "more innocent than other trip-hop divas and that purity sets her apart from the rest" (Collected Sounds Women in Music) "her voice is divine...fragility with an underlying power…..somewhere between Bjork and Lou Rhodes" (The Brag)

Majella's single "Cry" received national Triple J airplay and coverage as a film clip on "RAGE" aswell as recently featuring on American TV series "Vanished". Prior to her album, Majella's track "Permanent Trip" featured on Undercover Records compilation "Silent Soundtracks" and her haunting cover of Kate Bush's "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" was released on Groovescooter's Refashioned 2: British Airwaves Compilation, while being nominated for the Triple J Hottest 100. Since the release of "Tangent's Trail", Majella's final track on the album "Begin Me" received Best Composition for the Queensland Short Film Festival "Shoot Out".

Majella is also an accomplished actor. Her solo performance in "Stolen", directed by Stephen Wallace, won her Best Actress at the Sydney Short and Sweet Theatre Festival aswell as much critical acclaim: "O'Shea performed strongly and movingly" (John McCallum, The Australian)"Standout of the night....O'Shea unflinchingly tackled the text" (Lenny Ann Low, The Sydney Morning Herald). Other theatre roles include Salome (Salome) and Beatrice (The Cenci) for Praxis Theatre Laboratory, London; Kitty (Pride and Prejudice) for The Good Company, London; Teresa (The Dismissal) for TVI (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Mina (Dracula) for Compagnie Oz, Paris; TV credits include Sally on "Always Greener" and Fiona on "Home and Away"

Majella grew up in country Queensland before studying Piano and Voice at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and Drama and Ethnomusicology at the University of Queensland. She wrote her first composition, a sonatina, in a maths class at boarding school age 14. Her Dad is sometimes known to still whistle this. She has performed in Paris and the UK but favours the Sydney coastline as a backdrop for creativity. "Writing music is my way of making sense of the world. It's very cathartic"