BIOGRAPHY

GALVO is a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in the Ballymun flats and moved to Swords in his teens where he found music and like-minded souls. During this period he went through some challenging times, and, on a few occasions, became homeless living in his car. Throughout this dark period, GALVO channelled his experiences and intense feelings into his songwriting. 

A self-taught lefty-guitarist, GALVO played in several bands before forming alternative rock band September Sun with his brother Stuart and some friends. They self-released an album called ‘Low Engine Angel’ in 2006 and toured all over Ireland. The band then went their separate ways and Galvo spent the next few years living in Spain. It was here he rediscovered his love of acoustic guitar; he began to play an upside-down right-strung guitar and began to explore a gentler songwriting style.

He returned and formed A Dark Horse with film composer Hugh Rodgers and drummer/engineer Niall Woods. They released their self-titled debut EP in 2012 and received glowing reviews internationally from The Sunday Times, to Seattle Weekly, Nialler9 to Les Inrocks. The band played a live session on RTÉ’s Arena. played Hard Working Class Heroes festival and their single ‘The Heart Won’t Lie’ reached #6 on the AmazingRadio UK Chart and was voted #90 in the Amazing Radio Songs of 2013. A Dark Horse subsequently went on a hiatus for a few years and Galvo moved to London where he began working as an actor.

When he returned to Ireland a few years later, he reconnected with Hugh Rodgers and they began writing new songs together. They also started working on some of GALVO’s solo material with Niall Woods and in 2018 GALVO recorded and released his debut single ‘The Weight’ which Hot Press called “a stunning debut single” and chose it as the Hot Press Track of The Day.

In 2020 GALVO started working on his debut album at Porchlight Studios. The album features a collection of songs about love, loss and hope against the storms of life. The album was produced by Galvo, Niall Woods and Hugh Rodgers; recorded and mixed by Niall Woods; mastered by 9 time Grammy Winner Dave Collins (The Police, Soundgarden, Weezer). In July 2022 he released ‘Leave The Light On’ as a single featuring a cinematic music video directed by GALVO and Conor Beegan.

In July 2023 GALVO released the single and music video ‘Getting Better’ heralding the release of his debut album, 'The HeARTist', on September 26th 2023. He followed it up with another single in early August, ‘Maybe’, a b-side of which (‘I’m Not Lost’) was featured in Nialler9’s Top Irish Songs of the Week. The songs collectively have received over 150,000 streams on Spotify alone, and his music videos have also racked up over 10 thousand views each on YouTube.

‘The HeARTist’ is available to stream now on all major platforms and to purchase on Bandcamp. GALVO has also created a visual album to accompany each song on the album using new AI tools, which is on his YouTube channel.