RUBY MOSS VEGAN SINGER / SONGWRITER Here comes Ruby Moss! 14 year old Ruby from Dublin Ireland went straight to #1 with her first single release on her 14th birthday in July of this year. Ruby penned Ruby’s Song/Invisible last September when she struggled to fit in in secondary school. Ruby has been vegetarian her whole life and vegan since she was 8. ‘It is easy to relate to the lyrics of the song about feeling isolated because you’re different in whatever way.’ ‘No-one wants to wait for me, wants to hang around, so I’m on my own another day, I pretend that to look busy, pretend that I don’t care, living on a lie I told myself. But in my head, I see it differently, I see everything another way.’ It can be difficult to fit in when you see ‘everything another way.’ Ruby goes on to sing that ‘things will get better, this is not forever, you are not alone’ bringing a message of hope that things won’t always be this way, that things can change. 62
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Ruby’s musical career began when she joined St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School in Dublin. This is a primary school attached to St Patrick’s Cathedral where students are immersed in music, beginning each day with singing. Learning instruments is encouraged and Ruby continued piano lessons here and took up the flute. During this time, she also joined a traditional Irish group, Comhaltas and learnt the button accordion. It was when Ruby first heard the organ played by Master of Music, Stuart Nicholson was when she decided that she wanted to learn the organ - ‘the sound of the organ touched my soul’, she said. Ruby was awarded a prestigious organ scholarship this year with Dundalk
Grammar School. She is currently on the lookout for vegan organist shoes – if you know where she can get them, please get in touch! Learning the button accordion was inspired after seeing vegan musician Sharon Shannon play in the National Concert Hall in Dublin. It was at this event, Ruby also met multi-instrumentalist Susan O Neill (SON), who has also been a huge inspiration to her. Ruby guessed from some of the songs that Susan sang that she was possibly vegan too. Having role models like these two amazing women has been important to Ruby and Ruby hopes that she will inspire others to write and sing too.
