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The discography of Lisa Hannigan includes her collaborations with Damien Rice, her side projects with a number of other musicians and her solo career, which consists of two albums and a single. Hannigan is a multi-instrumentalist who can play electric guitar, bass guitar and drums as well as vocals. She began contributing backing vocals to Rice's band in Dublin in 2001 and toured with him across Europe and North America. Since Rice dismissed her at Munich, Germany in 2007, she has released a debut solo album, titled Sea Sew, in 2008. Sea Sew has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize and led to Lisa Hannigan receiving two nominations at the 2009 Meteor Awards.
Hannigan has also been involved in numerous side projects. She provided backing vocals on one track from Mic Christopher's Skylarkin' album which was finished by Christopher's friends after his death in 2001. She performs three tracks which feature on the soundtrack of the film Goldfish Memory alongside Damien Rice, had a UK hit with the Burmese protest song "Unplayed Piano" and she also features on the albums Burn the Maps by The Frames and Not Fade Away by David Kitt. The singer also worked on the self-titled album of The Cake Sale project, a 2007 Oxfam collaboration by mainly Irish musicians, on which she provided vocals on three tracks, including the "Some Surprise" duet with Gary Lightbody, which later featured on the U.S. television series Grey's Anatomy.
Hannigan has performed a number of covers, including "Get the Party Started" by P!ink, which featured as a duet with Damien Rice on Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 1 a charity compilation CD released in Ireland in 2003 and "Upside Down" by Diana Ross, which featured on the 2008 charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing. She also contributed to the 2009 charity album, Sparks n' Mind, released in aid of Aware.