While the album has a couple spiritual songs, Mooney calls the rest a cross between country and soul.įollowing her CD’s release, Mooney won the 2012 Music PEI Country Recording of the Year Award.Īnd from April 11 to 15, Mooney had three performances at the East Coast Music Awards Week in Moncton, N.B.Ĭurrently an executive assistant with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, she hopes to one day make music her full-time job.įor more information, see kelleymooney.ca. “I’m selling the CD through a site called CD Baby and, from there, it’s gone out to iTunes and there’s people who have bought it in Japan and France and all over the United States and Canada. Mooney released her first CD entitled Tomorrow in June 2011, which included “Hallelujah.” “I’ve gotten e-mails from people all over the world,” including Brazil, Australia and Ireland, she added. “From there, it’s just kind of catapulted into another stratosphere,” said Mooney. Performing her rendition of “Hallelujah” with a choir in 2010, her cousin taped the performance and put it up on YouTube. I just held the pen… I do really feel quite honoured that I was the one chosen to write it down.” “It took a year, less two days,” said Mooney, who secured the rights in 2008.īut she doesn’t take a whole lot of credit for writing the new “Hallelujah” lyrics. “And that lyrical adaptation is what allowed me to legally record Leonard Cohen’s music with my lyrics… And then I had to get the mechanical rights with the intention of selling a CD.
“I asked for the lyrical adaptation first,” she said. To find that song, that urgent song, takes a lot of versions, he said in an interview with SongTalk.
Wanting to record the song, she sought permission from Cohen’s publishers. Hallelujah was obviously an itch to scratch for Cohen, who drafted 80-some verses and tortured himself over the lyrics, famously sitting in his underwear at New York’s Royalton Hotel, notebook in hand, banging his head on the floor. “I said what are you talking about?” Mooney said with a laugh.
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