Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister.
Fahey was born the eldest of three daughters (Máire and Niamh being the other siblings) to Helen and Joseph Fahey (her parents had both come from County Tipperary). Fahey lived in Dublin for about two years, before her fam...
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Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister.
Fahey was born the eldest of three daughters (Máire and Niamh being the other siblings) to Helen and Joseph Fahey (her parents had both come from County Tipperary). Fahey lived in Dublin for about two years, before her family moved to Yorkshire, United Kingdom where her father Joseph was posted as a soldier in the British Army. The family subsequently moved to Germany, then returned to the U.K. where Fahey was sent to a convent school in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended schools in Stroud, Gloucester and Kent in England. When she was fourteen she and her family moved to Hertfordshire, and two years later she left home for London and became involved in the punk scene of the late 1970s.
There she took a course in fashion journalism where she met Sara Dallin and...
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