Audrey Gallagher

Audrey Gallagher was born in Antrim, Northern Ireland, and broke into the international trance scene through her 2007 collaboration with John O'Callaghan on "Big Sky" — a record that was championed by Armin van Buuren on A State of Trance, voted ASOT Tune of the Year by listener poll, received Irish Dance Music Awards and International Dance Music Awards nominations for Best Trance Single, and remains one of the most-played vocal-trance records of the era nearly twenty years after release. The "Big Sky" track has continued to spawn remixes well into the 2020s, including the Andrew Rayel remix (2014) and the Asteroid & Paul Skelton remix released on WAO138?! in 2023. Each new version has kept the original vocal performance in active rotation, and the cumulative effect across remixes has placed Gallagher's vocal among the most-broadcasted female vocal performances in trance history. Beyond the John O'Callaghan partnership, Gallagher has collaborated with tyDi ("You Walk Away"), Paul Denton ("Beneath the Stars"), and producers across the broader Subculture / Armada uplifting roster. Her catalogue is more focused than some of the more prolific vocalists in this batch — she has not chased high-volume vocal-feature credits — but the records she has appeared on have been chosen with care and have aged well. Her Spotify monthly listeners sit at around 62K, reflecting a genuinely engaged audience that follows her selectively-released work rather than a high-volume feature-credit catalogue. For listeners interested in vocal trance's late-2000s peak — and specifically the John O'Callaghan / Subculture lineage that the Bryan Kearney and Sean Tyas profiles in this catalogue treat in detail — Audrey Gallagher is the central female vocal voice of that scene, and "Big Sky" remains one of the genre's most enduringly cherished records.