Name that voice

July 14, 2008 6:49 AM

Can anyone help me definitively identify this female vocalist? (link to MP3 provided)

The voice at the beginning is Bono reading a poem -- then a woman starts to sing. The song is beautiful (it's a cover of an old U2 song, from the War album). But who is this singing?? I have googled it like mad and I can't come up with anything. If any background information will help, the song is called Drowning Man -- and I have no idea where I got it (not very helpful, I know).

Here's the song

posted by crapples to media & arts (7 comments total)

(after googling). Madeline Iris?
posted by Leon at 7:01 AM on July 14, 2008

Hmmm... you may be right. Nice Googling talents, my friend -- I never ran into her with my searches. Can anyone confirm that the song on my link is actually the Madeline Iris cover?
posted by crapples at 7:05 AM on July 14, 2008

It looks like it's listed and availble through Rapidshare in part 4 on this page.

NB: I've no idea if the download is safe or not.
posted by vers at 7:14 AM on July 14, 2008

""drowning man" covers u2" for the record. Hope you find an answer, there's nothing out else out there under that name, which I find odd.
posted by Leon at 7:14 AM on July 14, 2008

I think I'm going to assume that the Madeline Iris cover is in fact the cover that I have -- there don't appear to be any other covers of the song out there.

Thanks Leon for the name -- and thanks vers for the site.
posted by crapples at 7:41 AM on July 14, 2008

Not sure either, but maybe this will help: Bono's reading The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats.
posted by JaredSeth at 7:43 AM on July 14, 2008

crapples, just to confirm (not by downloading the file, never that way, uh uh), it is indeed Madelyn Iris.
posted by JaredSeth at 8:42 AM on July 14, 2008