“She sings and brings us to our lives. To cherish what is simple, know what is lost, and heal what is hurt. When Jamie sings, we laugh, we cry and we remember.”
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About Jamie O’Reilly
“A Voice for the Soul of the City” One day, from the front seat of my car, I watch the sunrise over frozen Lake Michigan. Poetic. Beautiful – purple morning streaks in chalky red-grey -blog, Jan 28
A little something’ from the archive: “Chi-Lives” Chicago Reader, 2001
Jamie O’Reilly’s childhood sounds like the premise for a Technicolor-drenched 1950s Hollywood musical: a powerful Irish-American, Shakespearean actor father revered in the local theatrical community, a radiant, silver-voiced diva of a mother, and a brood of 14 singing children, each more talented than the next. Put them in a small town in northern Illinois, where […]
