Triona shines a light on a promising music career

Triona shines a light on a promising music career

30 September 2015

TEENAGE singer-songwriter Triona Carville is beginning to really make a name for herself in the music world.

The 19 year-old, from Teconnaught, hit the airwaves this week with the launch of her first single Shining Light, which will already have been heard in most homes as the song used by Power NI for its new television advertisement.

Although she has steadily built both her reputation and fan-base since pursuing her artistic career full time over the past two years, even Triona admits she is taken aback by her recent successes and often surprised to 

hear her own voice both on television and radio.

Having just returned from her third trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she was taken under the wing of award-winning songwriters keen to help her fine tune her talents, she admits it is so novel to hear Shining Light on mainstream channels that she can’t help but pump up the radio and sing along.

Although Triona’s sensitive version of Shining Light is new, the song is undoubtedly familiar to her local fans.

In a double nod to local talent, it is the song that thrust Downpatrick band Ash to fame after it was penned by Tim Wheeler while he was still a student at Down High School. 

Because of this strong local link, Triona said she was particularly excited to get a call from a Dublin producer asking her to consider her own version for the Power NI advertisement.

“The producer had come across me online and said he loved what I had done and asked if I would consider releasing Shining Light as a single,” she said.

“It is amazing that it is now play-listed on Cool FM and Downtown Radio. Lots of other artists have done this before in different ways and it is another platform for what I do.

“It is cool listening to yourself on the radio and having your friends listen. If I am in the car I turn up the radio and sing along.”

As part of her drive to pursue her artistic career, Triona recently made her third trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked with award-winning songwriters, including Grammy award-winner James House and Jodi Marr who has written songs for Paloma Faith and Mika.

She said she had learnt a lot from such collaborations and begun to really fine-tune what interests her as a writer.

“I write a lot of my own songs and in Nashville everybody collaborates with each other because there is a recognition that the more heads get together the better the outcome will be,” she said.

“Also the more you write the more you are developing your songwriting.”

Triona said she is hoping to return to Nashville in the coming months and in the meantime plans to gig as much as possible so she can 

reinvest her earnings in developing her career.

“I would love to go back before Christmas, but if not it will be the early spring,” she said.

“It is all about showcasing yourself and performing as much as possible and I will do everything it takes.”