The talent for music hidden behind Robbie Henshaw, star of the Irish national team

After the Rugby World Cup ended a month ago, the teams look ahead, and in the northern hemisphere The next stop is called Six Nations. A tournament of which the Irish team is champion after having won the Grand Slam in its last edition. And within their star-studded team, Leinster Rugby center Robbie Henshaw He is one of the most prominent names on the Emerald Isle team. His numbers speak for themselves. After a decade defending the colors of the Trebol XV and three World Cups under his belt, the 30-year-old player has scored more than 70 points with his national team in just over fifty appearances with the Irish rugby team.

But, in addition to being one of the leading players in Irish rugby, he is a virtuoso of music, and in particular, of the accordion. His passion for this discipline comes from a young age, and Henshaw comes from a family closely linked to traditional Irish musicsomething that he himself absorbed to start playing the accordion at a very young age.

Today, the international with the XV del Trébol is a renowned artist as far as traditional Irish music is concerned, and he shows this talent on television, events and collaborations, proud of his passion for his roots.

The British and Irish Lions center He made a move to form a band with rugby players on the last tour and In his own words to the BBC Radio 5 Live channel, the player joined the Welsh pilier Wyn Jones and his compatriot, also the front line Tadhg Furlongto form a group and play at events during their tour of South Africa.

“Some of the Welsh lads were saying that Wyn Jones really played decent guitar. I’ll also be pushing Tadhg Furlong to sing a couple of tunes… The days off are going to be huge in terms of what we can do inside and outside the hotelif we may,” Henshaw noted before traveling with his companions.

Disco joint to Sarah Shannon

Sharon Shannon has been one of the great exponents of traditional Irish music for three decades. The singer is known for her work with the accordion and for her highly technical use of other instruments such as the violin, Irish flute and melodeon. Her 1991 album, Sharon Shannon, is Ireland’s best-selling traditional music album.

In 2018 he recorded an album with Robbie Henshaw and his family and friends. It was called “The Hensaw Family and Sarah Shannon – The secrets sessions” and contained nine songs classic from the Irish songbook. The idea of ​​recording the album started with the Irish singer’s album “The Three Jolly Pigeons in Athlone” in a conversation with Teddy Quinn, an old mutual friend of both of usas a way of trying to raise charitable funds.

Many members of the Henshaw family participated in the album. In the recording, Robbie’s sisters Alison, Katie and Emily, his mother Audrey, father Tony and uncles Davie and Jim can be distinguished playing different instruments. Without a doubt, a family with great musical talent that the Irish rugby star inherited, worked on and polished through years of practice and improvement.

Rodrigo Contreras is responsible for Relay rugby. From Madrid. Graduated in Journalism at the Complutense University. He mastered radio at Cadena COPE where he also specialized in

Sports journalism. There, he is a rugby collaborator for Deportes COPE and El Partidazo de COPE. He is a narrator and rugby commentator on Teledeporte (where he directed and presented the Pasión Rugby program for two seasons), Intereconomía and La Liga Sports. In 2015 he founded the rugby section of El Confidencial. For 9 seasons, he has been the director and presenter of the podcast specialized in the oval world, Tercer Tiempo Rugby, where the great references of the oval ball such as Brian O’Driscoll, Juan Fdez Lobbe, Hugo Porta, Sergio Parisse and Agustín Pichot have passed. . He has been a professor in COPE’s sports journalism course for 8 years. If, in addition to sports, you like music, you have an appointment on the radio every night on their RockFM Motel program.


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