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Infobox musical artist | name = Ruth Moody| image = Ruth Moody performs in Ireby.jpg| caption = Ruth Moody performing in Ireby, England, on May 24, 2008. Photo by Nick Robinson| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| Born = Australia | death_date =| origin = Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada | instrument = Singing|Vocals , guitar , piano , bodhran , accordion , banjo | genre = Folk music | occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = 1997–present| label =| associated_acts = The Wailin' Jennys .| website = http://www.ruthmoody.com/ www.ruthmoody.com| notable_instruments = Ruth Moody is an Australia n-born soprano singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys .
Biography
Moody grew up in Winnipeg , Manitoba with her parents, Charles and Marcelline, and three siblings, older brother Richard (The Bills), older sister Jane and younger sister Rachel. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-bialas/a-career-in-full-bloom-ru_b_672995.html She was trained classically from the age of four but unlike her two sisters and brother she did not take to a stringed instrument, and from her mid-teens began to train vocally instead. In 1993 she began to study English and French literature at university with the intent of becoming a teacher like both her parents. She changed her course in 1996 and decided to forge a life out of folk music instead.
Moody's first band was the Juno Award|Juno-nominated roots band Scruj MacDuhk , for whom she was lead singer from 1997 until the group's break up in 2001. After this split Ruth began to focus on her songwriting and picked up the guitar , adding it to her repertoire of piano , bodhran , accordion and banjo . It was also at this time that she started a musical collaboration with Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft . In 2002 the three took to the stage as The Wailin' Jennys . The Jennys (now Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and New York-based Heather Masse ) have won international critical acclaim and numerous awards including Juno award s for their albums 40 Days and Bright Morning Stars . They have toured in North America, Europe and Australia.
Since 2002 Moody has released four full-length albums and an EP with The Wailin' Jennys, and an album with two ex-members of Scruj MacDuhk, Jeremy Penner and Oliver Swain, called South Bound . In July 2002 she released a solo EP called Blue Muse and in April 2010 she released her first full-length solo album, The Garden , produced by David Travers-Smith. The Garden was critically acclaimed and nominated for a Juno award, a Western Canadian Music Award , and three Canadian Folk Music Awards .
Moody has received recognition for several of her compositions in the USA Songwriting Competition and the International Songwriting Competition . In April 2012 she won first prize in the International Songwriting Competition (Gospel Category) for her song 'Storm Comin'.
Discography
Live at the West End Cultural Centre (1997) - with Scruj MacDuhk
http://huff.to/cNTysf A Career in Full Bloom: Ruth Moody Lovingly Tends to The Garden
External links
Commons category|Ruth Moody
http://www.ruthmoody.com/ Ruth Moody official website
http://www.thewailinjennys.com/ The Wailin' Jennys official website
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