RuthAnne

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Ruth-Anne Cunningham, known as RuthAnne, is an Irish singer-songwriter born on 2 April 1986 in Donaghmede, Ireland. She has written or performed on many big songs, including co-writing JoJo’s Too Little Too Late, Niall Horan’s Slow Hands, Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha’s In the Name of Love, Britney Spears’s Work Bitch, One Direction’s Where Do Broken Hearts Go and No Control, and Westlife’s Beautiful World. She also wrote and sang on the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack with the song Pray, and provided uncredited vocals on Avicii’s All You Need Is Love. RuthAnne released her own first single, The Vow, on 23 March 2018, and her debut album Matters of the Heart came out on 4 October 2019.

Her love of performing started early—she began at age 7 and joined the Billy Barry Stage School at 12. At 17 she traveled to the United States and helped co-write JoJo’s Too Little Too Late, a song that jumped from 66 to 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in one week. She has won awards including ASCAP’s Songwriters Best Pop Award in 2007 for that song and BMI awards in 2018 for Slow Hands and In the Name of Love.

In 2018 she supported Alanis Morissette in London and performed in Dublin with Hozier. In 2020 she was part of Irish Women in Harmony, recording the charity single Dreams for Safe Ireland. In 2023 she was named Goss.ie’s Artist of the Year. She is married to Ollie John Marland since 2022 and they have two children.