Irish singer Imelda May is a walking, talking, singing embodiment of the 1950s. She wears leopard-print sweaters, tight bad-girl jeans and her hair in a ponytail. Her bangs are curled into a tight roll, known in England as a "quiff." Although May has won numerous awards in 2009, her music harks back to a style that was popular in the '50s: rockabilly.
May's debut album, Love Tattoo, was just released this past summer in the U.S. And, depending on your level of perversity, the hit single "Johnny's Got a Boom Boom" is really about the double-bass and not where a dirty mind might wander, at least if May is to be believed.
For the past 19 years, May has been in the entertainment business, but has spent a good part of that time as a burlesque performer.
"It's lots of sequins and glitter and glamour. It's great," May says. "As well as the tassels and the feathers, you get a lot of circus performers — sword-swallowers, fire-eaters, contortionists. It's such a good night out." - MORE HERE
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