They are four girls who happen to be in a band together. They don't want to be one dimensional. They don't want to be about one thing. They want to be about everything. They want B*Witched to be nothing less than a celebration of being alive.

They're about as lively and lovely as it gets right now. Fizzier than a vat full of lemonade. They're B*Witched. Four multi-talented girls from Dublin. Who have single-handedly breathed fresh life into the pop charts. They're more interested in bringing joy into people's lives than becoming incredibly famous. With the incredible chart success of their first four singles - the instantly infectious "C'est La Vie", "Rollercoaster", "To You I Belong" and "Blame It On The Weather Man" - they look set to do both.

The roots of B*Witched extend back a long way. All the way back to Dublin where, in the early eighties, twin sisters Edele and Keavy discovered a mutual love of music. "We come from a musical family," they say, "So there was always music around us when we were growing up. Our grandad played the fiddle, so we never needed much of an excuse to dance and sing. From a really early age, we started making up our own songs and performing them. I suppose, at some point, it occurred to us that we might grow up to be performers. But it seemed like a distant dream. Then, as we got older, it started looking more realistic. We thought, 'Yeah, we can do this' ". It was at that point that things started falling into place.

All they needed now was to recruit a couple of kindred spirits. Those potential team mates were out there somewhere, harbouring similar dreams of pop stardom. All that was required was a few simple twists of fate to bring B*Witched together. Like the twins, Sinead had been involved in music from a tender age - playing piano from the age of seven and going on to study dance and performance. One morning, she wandered into the Dublin garage where Keavy was working as a part-time mechanic. The two girls bonded immediately and the B*Witched line-up was three-quarters of the way to making up the full coven..... Enter Lindsay who was already an accomplished musician, having learned the piano at seven and the guitar at thirteen. She met up with Keavy at a kick-boxing class and, bingo, B*Witched were ready to cast their collective spell.

Inspired by the success of the twins' brother Shane (a member of Boyzone, no less), the four girls decamped to Sinead's Dublin flat where, for months on end, they buckled down to writing songs and singing into a cheap tape recorder.

"Right from the start," Sinead recalls, "we just seemed to hit it off, both musically and socially. But we didn't want to hurry anything. We knew we had something good going, but we wanted to take our time with it. Between the four of us, we had all these different musical influences, everything from hip hop to pop, from soul to traditional Irish folk. And we wanted to take all our influences, absorb them, and create something that was entirely our own."

The release of "C'est La Vie" made for a boldly spirited start. A sublime slice of contemporary music, which incorporates elements of soul and Irish jiggery, it stands out as one of the most animated debut singles in recent memory. The kind of song which wastes no time in burrowing into the listener's subconscious and refusing to budge. A storming debut, so it is. And the start of an exciting new pop adventure.



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