Linda Martin – douze points!

About this episode

Linda Martin shares her experiences in the music industry and discusses various topics including celebrity culture and animal welfare.

She’s one of Ireland's hardest working and best-known performers, and her honesty and sense of humour is an absolute tonic, making Linda Martin a great podcast guest. Linda started singing professionally when she was just 16 yrs old and still in school, and she has pretty much been performing regularly ever since. During that 50-year career, Linda has been a nine-time National Song Contest contestant, a Eurovision winner, a chart-topping singer, a mentor, a TV host, a stage actor – the list goes on! Linda tells me some great stories about her life in music, the hey day of the Irish showbiz scene and what she has learned from some of the greats that she has worked with. We chat about her love of animals and her beloved Dublin Dog Hub sanctuary.  And she also lets off some steam about modern day celebrity and work ethic, why politics and music should never mix, and why there’s no such thing as mega artists any more. COMEDY – Tommy Tiernan, Marty Whelan, and Ronan Keating have some interesting ideas about how to revive Ireland’s Eurovison glory days… Produced by Patrick Haughey, AudioBrand

People in this episode

Host: Mario Rosenstock

Guest: Linda Martin

Topics covered

• music career
• Eurovision
• Irish showbiz
• celebrity culture
• animal welfare

Keywords

• Linda Martin
• Eurovision
• Irish music
• celebrity
• animal sanctuary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dublin Dog Hub

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