Singer Kerry Fearon tells RSVP Country about growing up around music, coming onto the scene later in life and the best advice she ever received<\/h2>\n\n![\"Kerry](\"https:\/\/i2-prod.rsvplive.ie\/article37028791.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/0_Kerry-Fearon.jpg\")
<\/div>\nKerry Fearon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
What\u2019s your earliest memory of country music and where did your interest come from?<\/strong><\/p>\nMy dad was a singer and he had his own band locally. I released my first song in 2015 and things spiralled from there, but I had never sang in public beforehand. My dad was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, so he lost the ability to speak and he had to write everything down. I don\u2019t have the voice he had, but I decided I needed to use it. Once I started singing one thing led to another and my career is in memory of my dad.<\/p>\n
Would he have sung to you growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\nWe used to watch Eurovision<\/a> together back when the songs were of a really good standard and he would tell me he was going to write me a song so I could enter. I\u2019m 44 now, so I\u2019m very late coming into all of this.<\/p>\nIs it harder coming into the scene later in life, or is it easier because you have some life experience?<\/strong><\/p>\nA bit of both. People have a lot of the ground work done if they have some life experience, they know what\u2019s what and who\u2019s who. I started on radio the same time I got into music, so I knew how the artists sent their music to the radio stations to get air play. I wouldn\u2019t be fooled as easily now as my younger self could have been.<\/p>\n
In a way, your career is based on a tribute to your father. Is it nice to have him with you?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s lovely. I\u2019m not sure he would believe that I\u2019m actually doing this. I did Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre and I\u2019m not sure what he would have thought of that if he had seen it. Me performing is like a legacy to him. I got married two years ago, but I kept my maiden name for my music.<\/p>\n
Are you still in radio?<\/strong><\/p>\nI joined Downtown Country when it first launched in 2015, I was working on the station as well as the main Downtown Radio. I stayed there for four years, but I left in 2019 because I had more of an interest in Americana and more roots based music rather than just Irish country music<\/a>. I wanted to branch out. I took a leap of faith and joined Dundalk FM to set up my own show, The Boots \u2019n\u2019 Roots Show, and it\u2019s now six years old. The show airs on 30 different stations worldwide including Canada, America and even South Africa.<\/p>\nHow does it feel to have a global voice?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s great and it\u2019s fun. I focus a lot on promoting small and independent artists. I feel like I\u2019m helping them.<\/p>\n
Is it hard to balance life on the road with your work?<\/strong><\/p>\nMy last single was named as \u2018Track of the Day\u2019 by Hot Press back in June 2020 and I had a full album ready to go. But I never got back to the producer and he was busy as well, so we\u2019re only getting to release it now. I don\u2019t do the touring I did before Covid and since then I\u2019ve also taken on a permanent teaching job.<\/p>\n
Does that suit you, not working in music full-time?<\/strong><\/p>\nI get the best of both worlds!<\/p>\n
Who inspires you?<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m a big fan of Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris. I listen to new music all the time, so my favourites tend to change. I like artists who stick to their guns and do their own thing. I admire people who are authentic.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the best advice you\u2019ve received?<\/strong><\/p>\nI was told to follow my own path, not to worry about what anyone else is doing and not to compare myself to others.<\/p>\n
Want to <\/strong>see more of the stories you love from RSVP <\/strong><\/a>? To add RSVP as a preferred source of news on Google, <\/strong>simply click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rsvplive.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Kerry Fearon tells RSVP Country about growing up around music, coming onto the scene later in life and the best advice she ever received Kerry Fearon What\u2019s your earliest memory of country music and where did your interest come from? My dad was a singer and he had his own band locally. I released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2376826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22846],"class_list":["post-2376825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-country-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kerry-Fearon-on-coming-on-to-the-country-scene-later.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376827,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376825\/revisions\/2376827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/div>\nKerry Fearon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
What\u2019s your earliest memory of country music and where did your interest come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n My dad was a singer and he had his own band locally. I released my first song in 2015 and things spiralled from there, but I had never sang in public beforehand. My dad was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, so he lost the ability to speak and he had to write everything down. I don\u2019t have the voice he had, but I decided I needed to use it. Once I started singing one thing led to another and my career is in memory of my dad.<\/p>\n Would he have sung to you growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n We used to watch Eurovision<\/a> together back when the songs were of a really good standard and he would tell me he was going to write me a song so I could enter. I\u2019m 44 now, so I\u2019m very late coming into all of this.<\/p>\n Is it harder coming into the scene later in life, or is it easier because you have some life experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n A bit of both. People have a lot of the ground work done if they have some life experience, they know what\u2019s what and who\u2019s who. I started on radio the same time I got into music, so I knew how the artists sent their music to the radio stations to get air play. I wouldn\u2019t be fooled as easily now as my younger self could have been.<\/p>\n In a way, your career is based on a tribute to your father. Is it nice to have him with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s lovely. I\u2019m not sure he would believe that I\u2019m actually doing this. I did Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre and I\u2019m not sure what he would have thought of that if he had seen it. Me performing is like a legacy to him. I got married two years ago, but I kept my maiden name for my music.<\/p>\n Are you still in radio?<\/strong><\/p>\n I joined Downtown Country when it first launched in 2015, I was working on the station as well as the main Downtown Radio. I stayed there for four years, but I left in 2019 because I had more of an interest in Americana and more roots based music rather than just Irish country music<\/a>. I wanted to branch out. I took a leap of faith and joined Dundalk FM to set up my own show, The Boots \u2019n\u2019 Roots Show, and it\u2019s now six years old. The show airs on 30 different stations worldwide including Canada, America and even South Africa.<\/p>\n How does it feel to have a global voice?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s great and it\u2019s fun. I focus a lot on promoting small and independent artists. I feel like I\u2019m helping them.<\/p>\n Is it hard to balance life on the road with your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n My last single was named as \u2018Track of the Day\u2019 by Hot Press back in June 2020 and I had a full album ready to go. But I never got back to the producer and he was busy as well, so we\u2019re only getting to release it now. 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