Geraldine Brannigan occupation singer
Geraldine Brannigan, (born 1954), (sometimes listed as Geraldine Branagan) known professionally as Géraldine, is an Irish singer, known for finishing in fifth place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song "Toi" while representing Luxembourg.Career
Together with her band, she was active in the Irish showband scene. As Geraldine & the Brannigans they competed in the Irish preliminary to the Eurovision Song Contest 1973. Entitled Fadó Fadó/"Long, Long Ago" they finished in fourth place.
In 1978, as Geraldine & Pickles, Brannigan represented Ireland with the song Say It With Music at the Yamaha Music Festival in Tokyo.Brannigan performed her single "Casablanca" (co-written by Martin & Coulter) in an episode of the Benny Hill Show shown on UK ITV in March 1979. The follow up track, "Back Street Band" was featured on an episode of Juke Box Jury hosted by Noel Edmonds, shown on BBC1 on 16 June 1979. The panel of Pete Murray, Bob Geldof, Linda Lewis and Isla St Clair voted it a 'miss'. Both tracks failed to chart in the UK despite the TV exposure.
An album was released in 1981 (as The GB Band) in which her future husband Phil Coulter as a composer had participated.She also toured South Africa in 1982 with guitarist Tony Cox.
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