Rea Garvey

The popular saying goes “No man is a prophet in his own land” and that’s precisely the case for Irish singer-songwriter Raymond Michael “Rea” Garvey (born 3 May 1973 in Tralee, Kerry), who rose to prominence as the frontman for acclaimed German pop-rock band Reamonn. In addition to his rock credentials, he has also collaborated with countless mainstream pop acts such as Nelly Furtado (2006’s “All Good Things (Come to an End)”), Paul van Dyk (2007’s “Let Go”) and Mary J. Blige (2010’s “Each Tear”), and was a judge on the first two seasons of the reality show The Voice of Germany. He formed the Dublin-based rock band The Reckless Pedestrians in the early 1990s and then relocated to Berlin, where he worked as a roadie before fronting the alternative rock five-piece Raemonn. Spearheaded by Rea Garvey, the band went on to score five top five albums and several top 15 singles before calling it quits in 2011. That same year, he made his official solo debut with the platinum-selling Can't Stand the Silence, which climbed up to number four in Germany. He continued his winning streak with Pride (2014), Prisma (2015), and Neon (2018), all of which entered the top five in the German Albums Chart. Preceded by the singles “Talk to Your Body,” “Hey Hey Hey,” and “The One,” featuring Vize, fifth album Hy Brasil hit the shelves in 2020 and peaked at number seven in the German charts. He represented Ireland at the 2021 spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Free European Song Contest, and released several singles and EPs during the 2020s, including the Aura EP in 2023 and the "Halo" single in 2024,