Paddy Moloney was an Irish musician who co-founded and led the Grammy-winning group the Chieftains.Bringing traditional Irish music to the worldMoloney played the tin whistle and uilleann pipes since childhood, and in the 1950s, he began playing in groups.
He co-founded the Chieftains in 1962, and the band began playing their traditional Irish music. By the early 1970s, they had become popular across the U.K., and their music began to gain an international audience.
As the Chieftains spread the music of their homeland across the world, they won six Grammy awards and were named “Ireland’s Musical Ambassadors” by the Irish government in 1989.
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