damienrice.com,<\/a> with the general sale starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 23.<\/p>\nRice released \u201cO\u201d in February 2002, and won the Shortlist Prize for Artistic Achievement in Music, an annual U.S. music award created in 2001 by Greg Spotts and Tom Serig for albums that have sold less than 500,000 copies.<\/p>\n
The certified Gold album was recorded at his home with help from his second cousin, composer David Arnold, and featured singer Lisa Hannigan.<\/p>\n
Standout tracks included \u201c9 Crimes,\u201d \u201cCannonball,\u201d \u201cDelicate,\u201d and \u201cVolcano.\u201d The hit \u201cThe Blower\u2019s Daughter\u201d also gained steam after its inclusion in the 2004 romantic drama \u201cCloser,\u201d which featured Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen.<\/p>\n
Rice has since released two albums, \u201c9\u201d in 2006 and \u201cMy Favorite Faded Fantasy\u201d in 2014. He has also participated in several social justice campaigns, including Freedom Campaign, the Burma Campaign UK, and the U.S. Campaign for Burma to free Burmese democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He campaigned for her release by writing the song \u201cUnplayed Piano,\u201d which he performed at the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.<\/p>\n
He also wrote the song \u201cMaking Noise\u201d for the album \u201cSongs for Tibet: The Art of Peace\u201d in support of the 14th Dalai Lama and Tibet, and \u201cLonely Soldier\u201d for the Enough Project, and performed at the Iceland Inspires concert in July 2010 to promote tourism after the eruption of the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice is hitting the road to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his iconic album, \u201cO.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,2644,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,330,6998,420],"class_list":["post-498439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-concerts","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-music","tag-music-concerts","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}