{"id":403104,"date":"2026-04-17T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:40:11","slug":"singer-gemma-hayes-when-my-mum-died-i-thought-oh-my-god-im-definitely-a-grown-up-now-i-feel-like-id-been-pretending-until-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403104\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Gemma Hayes: \u2018When my mum died, I thought, \u2018Oh my God, I\u2019m definitely a grown-up now\u2019. I feel like I\u2019d been pretending until then\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe musician reflects on motherhood, losing her parents, battles with a record label and finding her creativity again after her career \u2018fell apart\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gemma Hayes: 'There\u2019s a lot of similarities between the first album and what I\u2019m doing now'. Photo: Rich Gilligan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A_EDIT_IMG_0653 (2).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)\">Gemma Hayes: &#8216;There\u2019s a lot of similarities between the first album and what I\u2019m doing now&#8217;. Photo: Rich Gilligan<\/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)\">The drive from Belfast to Baltimore can take over six hours, winding through the Irish countryside as winter gives way to spring.<\/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)\">For Gemma Hayes, making this journey after our interview in a Belfast hotel, it\u2019s prime creative time. \u201cI listen to podcasts, I listen to books. I actually come up with lyrics a lot of the time,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can just get a free run of things. Nobody interrupts me, so I can actually see a thought through to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The musician reflects on motherhood, losing her parents, battles with a record label and finding her creativity again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-403104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}