Renmore's Daniel Cohen is a talented new pop artist. He started writing music in his teens, and was part of a semi successful Irish rock band for many years.
They released an album and five singles, two of which reached the top forty and top thirty in the Irish Charts respectively. They also recorded an unreleased second album but sadly never broke through.
‘Will you ride with me tonight?’ was Daniel’s debut single release in June 2022. It received rave reviews and gained over 30,000 views on YouTube, reaching number 15 in the IMRO newcomer charts and received over 1000 streams on Spotify. A very good result for a fully independent artist.
Now he is back with a classic.
‘Chain Reaction’ was released by Diana Ross in 1985. While many cover versions have been released of this great track in the past, Daniel says he us very happy with thisversion and also a new bridge section they added.
"The music for the track was again done by Seamus Duignean in China again, however the vocals and mixing were completed by Daniel Cohen and Pascal Oorts in the famous Taplab studios in Antwerp, Belgium.
"It was in this studio that much of the ‘New beats’ songs of the 1990’s were recorded.
"My music influences are firmly based in funk soul and Motown greats. Little Richard, Bruno Mars and George Michael would be among my favourite artists and The Spinners, The Isley Brothers and The Temptations among my favourite groups," he told me.
With a raw natural talent for melodies, lyrics, and a knowledge of how to produce great songs, with your help Daniel Cohen is an Irish artist that can go very far.