{"id":393924,"date":"2026-01-07T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393924\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:03:08","slug":"the-clare-opera-singer-who-has-secured-two-grammy-award-nominations-i-love-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393924\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clare opera singer who has secured two Grammy Award nominations &#8211; \u2018I love my job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naomi Louisa O\u2019Connell as Mary Motorhead in a production by Emma O'Halloran. Image: Steven Pisano\/Naomi Louisa O'Connell via Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/abd2fb45-fdee-42a3-96e2-2dd6497f21ff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Naomi Louisa O\u2019Connell as Mary Motorhead in a production by Emma O&#8217;Halloran. Image: Steven Pisano\/Naomi Louisa O&#8217;Connell via Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Clare opera singer has been nominated for two Grammy awards in the same category for her performances in two different productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Naomi Louisa O\u2019Connell, from Ballyvaughan in North Clare, started her path to award-winning success as a child, singing with the Lismorahaun Singers before moving further afield, across the Atlantic, to study at Julliard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Louisa O\u2019Connell as Mary Motorhead in a production by Emma O&#8217;Halloran. Image: Steven Pisano\/Naomi Louisa O&#8217;Connell via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,12301,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-393924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-molly-cantwell","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}