{"id":1923,"date":"2025-05-14T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/?page_id=1923"},"modified":"2025-06-03T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T04:03:31","slug":"joanne-hogg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/program\/speakers-artists\/joanne-hogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Hogg"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Joanne Hogg<\/strong>\u00a0is a Northern Irish musician, best known for her work as the lead singer and songwriter with the\u00a0Celtic\u00a0Christian\u00a0progressive rock\u00a0band\u00a0Iona.<\/p>

Hogg was born in\u00a0Ballymena\u00a0to a family of medical missionaries.\u00a0Her father is a\u00a0Presbyterian\u00a0minister, her mother a nurse; her family also includes three sisters and two brothers. With medicine strong in the family, it was natural for Hogg to become a doctor and she studied medicine at\u00a0Queen\u2019s University Belfast. In her third year, Hogg was singing at the Christian Artists talent event and was convinced to sing in a school ministry at\u00a0Youth for Christ\u00a0in Denmark. After a year, Hogg got married and returned to university to complete her two remaining years of schooling.<\/p>

After graduating, Hogg interned as a junior doctor at\u00a0Belfast City Hospital\u00a0to complete her registration. Six months into working at the hospital, she was taken ill and stopped working for seven months to recover;\u00a0after recovering, she completed her registration as a doctor, but was advised on medical grounds not to continue in full-time medical work for a year.<\/p>

During her convalescence, she had been contacted by\u00a0Dave Bainbridge\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Fitzgerald, who had considered forming a band. In 1989, Hogg ceased practicing medicine, and Iona was born.\u00a0Since then, Hogg has sung all over Europe and America. Iona\u2019s recordings have become successful worldwide, making them Europe\u2019s best-selling contemporary Christian band.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Home \/ Page Evening Session Artist Joanne Hogg Artist’s Website Joanne Hogg\u00a0is a Northern Irish musician, best known for her work as the lead singer and songwriter with the\u00a0Celtic\u00a0Christian\u00a0progressive rock\u00a0band\u00a0Iona. Hogg was born in\u00a0Ballymena\u00a0to a family of medical missionaries.\u00a0Her father is a\u00a0Presbyterian\u00a0minister, her mother a nurse; her family also includes three sisters and two brothers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":130,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1923\/revisions\/2345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}