As a musician, King has recorded seven albums. His version of the song "
I Am Stretched on Your Grave" has been covered by
Sinéad O'Connor on her album ''
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got and by Dead Can Dance on their album Toward the Within''. In 1987, he set up television production company Hummingbird Productions with Nuala O'Connor and Kieran Corrigan. The landmark television series
Bringing It All Back Home won an
Emmy Award in the United States in 1991, and in 1993 he was nominated for a
Grammy Award for his music documentary
Rocky World about the
Canadian musician
Daniel Lanois. King produced and directed
Keeping Time, a film celebrating the poet
Seamus Heaney and
uilleann piper Liam O'Flynn, for
BBC Television in 1998. He was appointed by the
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O'Donoghue to the Special Committee on the Traditional Arts in December 2003. King is also the maker of acclaimed television programmes about Irish music, including
Other Voices. He was a member of the
Arts Council of Ireland. He is also the series editor of the
Tradition music series
The Full Set. He produced a 90-minute television programme about violinist
Nigel Kennedy and the
Irish Chamber Orchestra, as well as a documentary on Kennedy. He executive produced the
Irish Film & Television Award-winning film
John McGahern – A Life, and produced
Thomas Moore – One Faithful Harp for RTÉ television. He has also directed five series of
Sé Mo Laoch for the
TG4 television channel, documenting and archiving the lives of Ireland's most celebrated traditional musicians. As a broadcaster, King presents
South Wind Blows on
RTÉ Radio 1. ==References==