Career
The phonetic spelling of her first name (which is Irish) also serves as the title of her 2003 album. Her most recent album, Lights Down Low, is a collection of covers. Along with Blake Manning, Stuart Cameron and Peter Fusco, she has formed a new band called The Heartbroken.
Doyle took singing, guitar and clarinet lessons as a child, and released her debut album, Shadows Wake Maine, in 1996.
She toured Canada with Steve Earle in support of his album I Feel Alright. In 2000, Doyle released her follow-up album, Hyperdramatic which included the single "Tattooed".
"Never Too Late", directed by Rob Heydon was nominated for Video of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards. In 2003, Doyle"s third album, Davnet, was released.
The Civil Defense was produced and co-written by Gordie Sampson at Lakewind Sound Studios, his Cape Breton recording studio.
The first single was Another California Song, written by Doyle and Sampson. The video featured Doyle"s Shaye bandmates Kim Stockwood and Tara MacLean. A video was also released for Traffic.
In Christmas of that year, she went to Kabul, Afghanistan, to sing for the Canadian troops there, on the Christmas special Rick Mercer"s Christmas in Kabul.
She has worked with Alexz Johnson, co-writing two songs on Songs from Instant Star, then four on Songs from Instant Star Two. She recorded two songs on Songs from Instant Star 3: "Just the Beginning" and "Darkness Round The Sun".
The song "Say What You Will" was featured in the Degrassi: The Next Generation episode "The Bitterest Pill", where the school held a memorial for a J.T. Yorke, who was fatally stabbed in the prior episode. She did a duet with Rex Goudie on his new album Look Closer, on the song "Like I Was Dying", which she also co-wrote.
In 2008, Doyle lent her voice to the title sequence of Degrassi: TNG, but her version of the theme was only used for the eighth season.
In 2009, Doyle, along with Blake Manning, Stuart Cameron (musician) and Peter Fusco, formed a new band called The Heartbroken. They released their debut album Tonight Tonight in June 2010. Doyle wrote a song for a play her father Clar Doyle wrote for EDFNL, titled the same as the play: "Are You Watching Maine Now?".