Kathy Kelly

In 2017, the Kelly Family reunited with seven members, and once again Kathy was part of the band. The Kelly Family released an album called We Got Love, on which Kathy sings six songs.

In 2017, besides the Kelly Family comeback, Kathy continued her European Tour through the year, with one show also including her brother John Kelly.

At the end of 2016, Kathy started a tour called Celtic Scottish Christmas Tour with her younger brother Paul.

On December 31, 2015 and January 2, 2016 Kathy did her first concerts in Bethlehem, Israel.

In 2014, Kathy released a holiday album called My Christmas Songs and in 2015 an album called The First. Through this time she performed mainly at festivals and sporadic concerts. That year she did a tour with her siblings Paul and Patricia.

She also took part in the 2012 tour, called Stille Nacht 2012, and another live CD was released from the tour in September 2013.

On September 2012, Kelly started a European tour through Germany and Romania.

She also participated at Paddy Kelly's Stille Nacht Tour, along with Paul, Patricia, Joey Kelly, Michael Patrick Kelly and guest Caroline Kelly in 2011. Recordings of the concerts were taken and released in a live CD called Stille Nacht Live-CD 2011.

Kathy also started a tour called Godspel Tour from 2009 to mid 2012 mainly in Germany, but also in Romania, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

She later returned to tour with the band from 2007 to 2008.

In 2002, Kathy released her third studio album, Straight From my Heart. In 2005, Kathy released her fourth album, called Godspel, which also features some songs with Jimmy Kelly.

In 2000, Kathy Kelly officially left the band to pursue a solo career. Her last song sung for the band was By Myself but Not Alone with her brother John in 1999.

After leaving the Kelly Family in 2000, Kathy released another album, Morning of My Life, this time with whole new material. It peaked at number 22 of the German charts.

In 1999, Kathy released her first solo album titled The Best Of Kathy Kelly which, in addition to her best songs from the albums of The Kelly Family (see The Kelly Family discography), contained five new songs. While still recording and touring with the group throughout the 2000s, Kathy worked on her solo projects, which resulted in three more LPs up to date and a number of singles. Some of the songs included were new versions of the traditional songs from all over the world previously sung by the group from as early as the 1970s; notably "Amazing Grace", "Motherless child", "Old Black Joe", "The Rose of Tralee".

1994 was the year of the breakout for the Kelly Family, after the Kellys started to sell CDs on shops. Their CD Over the Hump sold 5 million copies. This was followed up by Christmas for All, Almost Heaven, Growin' Up and From their Hearts. In the latter, Kathy's son, Sean, is also present doing vocals on "Dance to the Rock 'n Roll".

In 1990 Daniel Kelly suffered a stroke which partially paralyzed him and left him bedridden. Though Dan remained fairly active in the 1990s, Kathy became the head of the group.

In 1983, the family moved to France. There Kathy met her future husband Vincent van Hille. They married in 1990, and gave birth to Sean Jerome van Hille in 1992, but eventually divorced in 2001. Sean is named after Sean O'Kelley, the Kellys' ancestor.

The Kelly Family became very popular in their early years as a street band. Kathy usually played the violin along with Paul, but when Caroline left, she started to play the accordion more frequently. Kathy was also the one who arranged most of the songs and she was the first of the siblings to write a song, as she is credited as the writer of Lonely, a song recorded in 1981 which features lead vocals from then-main vocalist John, and Papa Dan. She was also one of the main producers and has recorded most of the albums from the '80s until the late '90s.

She is part of some of the band's most famous songs, for example: Peces en el Rio (1977, 1979, 1994), Amazing Grace (1981, 1990), Hiroshima, I'm Sorry (1985, 1988), When the Last Tree... (1993), Ares Qui (1994), Quisiera ser un Ángel (1995), Come Back to Me (1996), You're Losing Me (1998) and Children of Kosovo (1999).

In 1974, Kathy, Caroline, Paul, John and Patricia formed The Kelly Kids, to play at children's parties or in the streets. The band was later called The Kelly Family, as Dan and Barbara also joined, later followed by Kathy's siblings.

In 1969, Dan divorced Joanne and married Barbara-Ann Suokko in 1970 in New York. Joanne returned to the US and apparently lost contact with Kathy. Barbara and Dan gave birth to eight other children.

In 1965, her father and sister Caroline left the US to find a home in Europe. Papa Dan bought a home in Spain, close the city of Gamonal. Joanne and the other three children reunited with Dan and Caroline after some months.

Kathleen Ann Kelly (born 6 March 1963) is a singer, songwriter, and producer. Born in Leominster, Massachusetts, United States, she is the third child of the musical family group The Kelly Family, a multi-generational pop group that achieved success in Europe in the 1990s.

Kathy is born in the US, on 1963. She is the third of four children born from the marriage of Daniel Kelly, Sr. and Joanne.