What Is Siobhan Fahey's Net Worth?
Siobhan Fahey is an Irish singer and musician who has a net worth of $12 million. Siobhan Fahey is best known for being a founding member of the girl group Bananarama, and she also formed the alternative pop/rock duo Shakespears Sister. With Bananarama, Fahey has released the albums "Deep Sea Skiving" (1983), "Bananarama" (1984), "True Confessions" (1986), and "Wow!" (1987) and hit singles such as "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (with Fun Boy Three), "Shy Boy," "Cruel Summer," and "Venus." Shakespears Sister has released the albums "Sacred Heart" (1989), "Hormonally Yours" (1992), "#3" (2004), and "Songs from the Red Room" (2009) and had a #1 hit with the 1992 single "Stay." Siobhan has also released a solo album, 2005's "The MGA Sessions."
Early Life
Siobhan Fahey was born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey on September 10, 1958, in County Meath, Ireland. She is the daughter of Helen and Joseph Fahey, and she has two sisters, Máire and Niamh. Máire played the title role in the 1982 Dexys Midnight Runners music video "Come On Eileen," and Niamh is an editor and producer. After Joseph joined the British Army, the family lived in England and Germany. When Siobhan was 14 years old, she moved to Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England with her family, and two years later, she left for London, where she got involved with the punk scene.
Bananarama
While taking a fashion journalism course at the London College of Fashion, Fahey met Sara Dallin. The two formed Bananarama with Keren Woodward in 1981 and released several singles with the Fun Boy Three the following year. The singles "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" and "Really Saying Something" were certified Silver in the U.K., and both reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, Belgian Ultratop chart, and Irish Singles Chart.
Bananarama released their debut album, "Deep Sea Skiving," in March 1983, and it reached #7 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Silver in the U.K. The album included the hit singles "Shy Boy," and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," which both reached the top 10 in the U.K. and Ireland. Their follow-up, 1984's "Bananarama," reached #16 on the UK Albums Chart and #9 on the Swiss Hitparade chart.
The singles "Cruel Summer" and "Robert De Niro's Waiting…" were top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart. Next, the band released the 1986 album "True Confessions," which was certified Platinum in Canada and Gold in the U.S. The album included the single "Venus," which would become their biggest hit, topping the charts in seven countries and going Platinum in Canada and Silver in France and the U.K. Fahey left Bananarama after the release of the 1987 album "Wow!," which reached #1 on the Australian Albums chart and went Gold in the U.K. and Canada. The singles "Love in the First Degree" and "I Want You Back" reached the top 10 in the U.K., Australia, and Ireland. Siobhan reunited with the band in 2017 for the "Original Line-up Tour."
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Other Work
After leaving Bananarama, Fahey formed Shakespears Sister, which she initially planned on being a solo project. Shakespears Sister became a duo after Siobhan began collaborating with singer/songwriter Marcella Detroit, and they released the albums "Sacred Heart" (1989) and "Hormonally Yours" (1992). Both albums reached the top 10 on the UK Albums Chart, and "Hormonally Yours" was certified 2× Platinum in the U.K. and featured the #1 single "Stay." In 1993, the duo split up, and Siobhan checked herself into a psychiatric unit while suffering from severe depression. She later switched Shakespears Sister back to a solo project and released the albums "#3" (2004) and "Songs from the Red Room" (2009), and in 2019, she reunited with Detroit for the "Shakespears Sister Ride Again" tour. In 2005, Fahey released the solo album "The MGA Sessions."
Personal Life
On August 1, 1987, Siobhan married Dave Stewart, who is best known for being a member of Eurythmics alongside Annie Lennox. Fahey and Stewart welcomed sons Samuel (born 1987) and Django (born 1991) before divorcing in 1996. Samuel and Django formed the band Nightmare and the Cat in 2010, and in 2014, the group released the LP "Simple" and performed on "The Late Show with David Letterman." When Samuel was a baby, he appeared in the Shakespears Sister music videos "You're History" and "Heroine." Before marrying Stewart, Fahey dated Stiff Little Fingers drummer Jim Reilly and The Bluebells singer Bobby Bluebell. She co-wrote the song "Young at Heart" with Bluebell.
Awards and Nominations
During Fahey's time with Bananarama, the band earned 10 "Billboard" Music Award nominations: Top Hot 100 Artist (1986 and 1987), Top Dance Club Play Artist (1986 and 1987), Top Dance Sales Artist (1986), Top Hot 100 Song, Top Dance Club Play Single, and Top Dance Sales Single for "Venus" (1986), and Top Hot 100 Song and Top Dance Club Play Single for "I Heard a Rumour" (1987). They also received Brit Award nominations for British Single of the Year for "Love in the First Degree" (1988) and British Video of the Year for "Nathan Jones" (1989). With Shakespears Sister, Siobhan has earned six Brit Award nominations, winning British Video of the Year for "Stay" in 1993. The duo's other nominations were for British Breakthrough Act (1990), British Video of the Year for "Goodbye Cruel World" (1992), British Album of the Year for "Hormonally Yours" (1993), British Single of the Year for "Stay" (1993), and British Group (1993). In 1993, they won an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection and received nominations for Best Contemporary Song, Most Performed Work, Best Selling Song, and International Hit of the Year for "Stay." Shakespears Sister has also won an RSH Gold Award for Best Duo (1993) and earned MTV Video Music Award – International Viewer's Choice Award for MTV Europe nominations for "Stay" (1992) and "Hello (Turn Your Radio On)" (1993).
Real Estate
In 2014, Fahey put her 1,600 square foot Beachwood Canyon home on the market for $1.149 million. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home sits on a lot that measures approximately 4,000 square feet. Siobhan listed a different Los Angeles home for sale for $4.75 million in 2020. She paid $1.9 million for the 3,412 square foot Los Feliz home eight years earlier, and it includes four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms.
