Singer songwriter Gemma Hayes has revealed that she almost became Ireland’s biggest popstar.
Louis Walsh wanted to work with her and make her into the next biggest popstar like Samantha Mumba.
“I had a conversation with Louis Walsh at one stage. He’s a brilliant business man and wanted to work with me at the time,” she said.
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The music mogul wanted to manage her and get her to date celebrities to get her in papers and build a profile.
“He was saying to me, ‘Gemma you need to play the game more, we need to get you out dating another celebrity, we need to get you on the scene and in the papers,” she added.
“He said ‘You have the X Factor, but you don’t have the songs, stop songwriting and we’ll employ people to write for you.”
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The Tipperary native is a renowned songwriter and has had massive success but remains modest about her career.
“But what I do is write songs. I understand what he was saying though. He deals with people who want to be superstars and he couldn’t understand why I said no to that,” she told Miriam O’Callaghan on RTÉ Radio 1.
Gemma currently lives in London with her husband Stuart Musgrave and their 18-month-old son Max.
