Sabrina Dinan

Soon after meeting the legendary British singer-songwriter and innovative guitar player John Martyn and his recording Engineer Gary Pollitt in Kilkenny back in 2008, Sabrina was contacted by John’s good friend and record producer Jim Tullio. Jim had been tipped off by Gary and John about this amazing singer-songwriter from County Clare, Ireland that they had seen play and insisted that Jim needed to hear her. After checking out Sabrina’s MySpace page, Jim immediately saw the potential and called her to suggest that she visit his studio in Chicago and talk about making an album. This was not the first time that Sabrina’s talent for songwriting and extraordinary vocal performance had been noted.



Sabrina first began writing songs at the age of 21 while living in Australia, and after returning home to Ireland she began to play gigs with the likes of Juliette (Lewis) and the Licks, Damien Dempsey, Paddy Casey and Declan O’ Rourke. Sabrina was then discovered by fellow Irish singer-songwriter, Luka Bloom, who in 2006 asked Sabrina to accompany him as support for his tour which included visits to the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, USA and Australia.



In 2009 Sabrina agreed to fly to Chicago to meet with Jim Tullio, who has produced and written songs with such artists as Richie Havens, Dave Mason, Rick Danko and Levon Helm of the Band, Aretha Franklin, Rosalie Sorrels, Mary Mc Caslin, David Bromberg, Steve Goodman, John Martyn, Mavis Staples and many, many more.



The meeting was a success and they began to work together on what is now Sabrina’s debut album titled “I’ll Learn To Be A Lady” which features 11 tracks, 10 written by Sabrina (5 co-written with Jim Tullio). Sabrina has also recorded a beautiful version of John Martyn’s “Certain Surprise” originally from John’s album “One World” which is a tribute to John who sadly passed away at the end of January 2009, never hearing any of the beautiful music that came from the working partnership that he had helped forge.