Miles Graham

Singer songwriter Miles Graham was born in Donaghmede, Dublin, Ireland, into a family of 9 siblings, who moved to the Dublin Satelite town of Clondalkin where he spent most of his childhood and teenage years. He grew up a thoughtful, musical recluse, penning words and melodies and forging them into things that were greater than their parts. He grew to manhood in a rustic council estate backdrop, not really knowing what to do with these blurts of thoughts that came out of him in the way mere words occur to other people. Growing up with brothers who music choice was centred around British rock such as The Jam, Paul Weller and The Who; Miles gravitated to the likes of Bill Withers and Motown and when he heard Labi Siffre sing “Something inside so strong” the young songsmith thought it might as well have written it for him. The tall, thoughtful Irishman, with the gift of turning his thoughts into songs and his songs into spells, had something inside that was and is very strong: a warm and magnetic voice

It was only when as a young adult, he moved to Co Sligo in the West, spiritual home of W.B. Yeats among others, that it all began to come together. Fast forward down the years of life in the real world, where Miles lived the life that would eventually go into the songs that were more than songs – several occupations, relationships and ups and downs.

With a warm, magnetic voice that compares to none and a songwriting talent possessed of something of the quality of a younger Van Morrison, what sets Miles apart is that he marries this with the commercial appeal of James Morrison and Ray LaMontagne.