In 1997, Rea Garvey left his band the Reckless Pedestrians and his hometown of Tralee in Ireland to go to Germany with little money and a demo CD in his pocket.

He put an advertisement in the local paper Stockacher Anzeiger stating, "Singer requires band for recording and live shows".

Mike "Gomezz" Gommeringer saw this ad and accurately assumed it must have been Garvey, whose original band he had once seen play live.

Reamonn's first chart success came with "Supergirl," a track that received heavy airplay on mainstream radio stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Russia.

On 24 July 2008, the group was chosen as the opening act for Barack Obama's speech at The Siegessäule in Berlin, before an estimated crowd of 200,000.

[1] On 20 December 2008, Reamonn played their song "Faith" as an entrance theme for boxer Nikolai Valuev leading up to his WBA championship fight versus Evander Holyfield in Zürich.

On 27 August 2010, Reamonn released their greatest hits album Eleven, which features three new tracks: the new singles "Yesterday", "Colder" and "Let The Morning Sleep".

The following year, Can't Stand the Silence: The Encore Edition was released, featuring several new songs including the single "Wild Love".

In September 2014, Rea Garvey released the Oh My Love EP, a maxi-single which features the original song from Pride and a new version with Amy Macdonald.