Rachael Lavelle: Finding her voice

Rachael Lavelle: I was on the Luas and I heard her voice. It was, like, ‘Okay, light-bulb moment: she’s perfect’ When the singer wanted to tie her excellent debut album together, she went to the woman whose voice is used on Dublin’s tram systemwas quite young when she noticed something about herself, although it was only recently that someone else pointed it out to her.

“Someone said to me the other week that I speak in the same register as other people yawn,” she says, laughing, over a cup of tea in a Dublin cafe that’s quiet before the lunchtime rush. “I always remember thinking that my speaking voice was really strange. It was much lower than everyone else’s. And then I went to a singing teacher, and I was singing for soprano. I was, like, ‘Where can we meet in the middle?’ So when I started writing my own music I was able to explore my voice in a different way.” The Dublin musician has just released her excellent debut album, Big Dreams, which has been several years – or in fact, several decades, as most debut albums are, in a sense – in the makin

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