Westlife Albums

Westlife Albums

Nicky Byrne

Nicky Byrne
Nicky Byrne at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009
Background information
Birth name	Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne Jr
Born	9 October 1978 (age 33) Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, radio presenter, TV presenter, footballer
Instruments	Vocal
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Westlife

Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne, Jr (born 9 October 1978) is a singer-songwriter, radio and TV presenter and former footballer. From 1998 until 2012 he was the oldest member of Irish pop band, Westlife.

Before his music career, he played professional football and represented Republic of Ireland at several underage levels. Since then he has had a successful international radio and TV presenting career. His wife Georgina is the daughter of former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and they have twin sons called Rocco Bertie Byrne and Jay Nicky Byrne.

Music career

Main article: Westlife

In June 1998, Byrne attended an audition for new Irish boyband, where he was spotted by Boyzone manager Louis Walsh, who approached him to join his new venture, Westlife. Byrne joined Westlife along with Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and former member Brian McFadden. The band's name had to be changed to Westlife after it was discovered a number of bands already had the name Westside.

Byrne revealed in Westlife: Our Story that he had wanted to change the name of the band to West High; but the others preferred Westlife.

His first album with Westlife was released in November, 1999, titled Westlife. With Westlife, Byrne has had fourteen UK number ones and seven number one albums in the UK, and sold over 45 million records worldwide. With sales in excess of 45 million, 14 UK number ones and 25 top ten singles. They also certified that Westlife have sold 20.2 million records and videos in the UK across their 14-year career - 6.8 million singles, 11.9 million albums and 1.5 million videos.

Byrne also had a number one single in Ireland in 2002, alongside the Republic of Ireland national football team and Dustin the Turkey with the Irish 2002 FIFA World Cup anthem, "Here Come The Good Times (Ireland)".

Byrne has also co-written a few songs, along with the other band members, including

• "Nothing Is Impossible"
• "Don't Let Me Go"
• "When You Come Around"
• "Imaginary Diva"
• "Reason For Living"
• "Crying Girl"
• "You Don't Know"
• "Never Knew I Was Losing You"
• "Where We Belong"
• "Singing Forever"
• "I Won't Let You Down"
• "You See Friends (I See Lovers)"
• "I'm Missing Loving You"
• "When It Comes to Love"
• "Too Hard to Say Goodbye"
• "Wide Open"
• "Last Mile Of The Way"

Byrne is also one of the board of directors of Clikthrough, a video interactive site

Kian Egan

Kian Egan
Kian Egan at The Nobel Peace Price Concert 2009
Background information
Birth name	Kian John Francis Egan
Born	29 April 1980 (age 31) Sligo, Ireland
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, drums, piano, guitar
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Westlife, Wonderland, Jodi Albert

Kian John Francis Egan (born 29 April 1980) is an Irish musician. He was a member of the boyband Westlife and a coach on The Voice of Ireland.

Music career

Main article: Westlife

He was also in a pop group called IOYOU with fellow Westlife members Mark Feehily and Shane Filan, as well as Graham Keighron, Michael "Miggles" Garrett and Derrick Lacey.

Egan plays many instruments inside and outside the group, including the piano and guitar and was a former member of Sligo punk rock group Skrod.

Aside from being a member of Irish boy band Westlife, Kian, (during a year long hiatus from the group on 2008) launched a new venture along with Louis Walsh to put together and co-manage girlband, Wonderland, their debut album reached number 6 in Ireland and number 8 in the UK; just 4 months later, however, they were dropped by Mercury Records.

Egan has also co-written a few songs, including;

• "Too Hard To Say Goodbye"
• "Closer"
• "Don't Let Me Go"
• "When You Come Around"
• "Imaginary Diva"
• "Reason For Living"
• "Crying Girl"
• "You Don't Know"
• "Never Knew I Was Losing You"
• "Where We Belong"
• "Singing Forever"
• "I Won't Let You Down"
• "You See Friends (I See Lovers)"
• "I'm Missing Loving You"
• "When It Comes to Love"

"Timeless" for the pop band D-Side.

Shane Filan

Shane Filan
Shane Filan at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009
Background information
Birth name	Shane Steven Filan
Born	July 5, 1979 (age 32)
Origin	Sligo, Ireland
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	SonyBMG UK/Ireland
Associated acts	Westlife

Shane Steven Filan (born July 5, 1979) is one of the lead singers in the Irish pop band Westlife. Filan is one of the five original Westlife members, along with other current members Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Nicky Byrne and former member Brian McFadden.

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Biography

Filan was born on July 5, 1979 to Peter and Mae Filan, and grew up in Sligo, a busy commercial town in the northwest of Ireland. The youngest of seven children, he has three brothers and three sisters: Finbarr, Peter Jr, Yvonne, Liam, Denise and Mairead. His parents owned a diner in Sligo named Carlton Caf'e located on Castle Street and Shane used to work there as a waiter from a very early age.

Filan attended Summerhill College, a Catholic school, with Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. All three of them participated in a school production of Grease when they were about 12. The Hawkswell Theatre became a significant part of their careers. Filan was a fan of Michael Jackson as a child, and claimed the singer inspired him to pursue a career in music.

[Musical career

Main article: Westlife

Before Westlife, Egan and Feehily were with Filan in a band known as I.O.U. with other Sligonians Derrick Lacey, Graham Keighron and Michael "Miggles" Garrett. He partly wrote the IOYOU's song Together Girl Forever. For 6 months, Shane's mum, Mae Filan, tried to phone Louis Walsh (who is also the manager of Boyzone). Eventually, she was able to speak to him and talked about her son's band. 3 of them were dropped and the other 3, Shane, Kian and Mark, joined ventures to finding 2 more slots for the band. Then they were joined by Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden to form Westside. The name of the band then changed to Westlife as there were already a number of bands with the name Westside.

Filan, along with Mark Feehily, is the main lead singer (first voice) in Westlife. Their first album was released in November, 1999, titled Westlife. With Westlife, Filan has received twenty-eight platinum discs and sold 40 million records worldwide

Filan has also co-written a few songs, along with the other band members, including:

• Fragile Heart
• Bop Bop Baby (Became a hit single and made it into #5 in U.K. singles charts)
• Don't Say It's Too Late
• I wanna grow old with you
• I'm missing loving you
• Singing Forever
• Where we belong
• Never knew I was losing you
• Love Crime
• How Does It Feel
• Crying Girl
• Reason For Living
• Miss You When I'm Dreaming
• A Little Part of Me / Little Part of Me / Extraordinary Love^A
• Love Ain't War^A
• This Life^A
• Closer
• Too Hard To Say Goodbye
• Last Mile of the way .

^ASongs were found to be Filan's co-written songs. No other details whether it's for Westlife or not.

He has also written songs for other artists, (together with his former bandmate McFadden):

• Listen Girl sung by John Ostberg
• Let Me Be the One sung by Simon Casey (the song written by only Shane himself)
• Sei Parte Ormai Di Me sung by Il Divo
• The Music Won't Last / Music Won't Last by Jerry Given

In the week beginning 26 April 2010, an unreleased solo song by Filan called "Beautiful In White" leaked onto the Internet, but it was credited as being recorded by Shayne Ward instead of Filan. Filan performed the song on 13 March 2010 at a private wedding ceremony in Co. Kildare Ireland for Irish multimillionaire Mark Walker's daughter.

He also participated and won with a team on Soccer Aid 2010. Following in the footsteps of his bandmate, Kian, Filan appeared as Walsh's guest judge in the groups category of The X Factor.

Mark Feehily

Mark Feehily
Mark Feehily at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009 (Photo: Harry Wad)
Background information
Birth name	Markus Michael Patrick Feehily
Born	28 May 1980 (age 31) Sligo, Ireland
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, piano, tin-whistle
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Westlife
Website	www.westlife.com

Markus Michael Patrick Feehily (born 28 May 1980) is one of the lead singers of the Irish boyband Westlife.

Early life

Feehily was born in Sligo, Ireland, to Marie Verdon and Oliver Feehily. He has two younger brothers, Barry (born 1985) and Colin (born 1989).

Career

Main article: Westlife

Feehily rose to fame as one of the two lead singers of the boyband Westlife. He shares lead vocals with Shane Filan. Before Westlife, Feehily, Filan and Kian Egan came from the band IOYOU, which released the single "Together Girl Forever". Louis Walsh, the manager of the 1990s boy-band Boyzone, was contacted by Filan's mother and came to know about the group. The group was established on 3 July 1998 with the addition of two more members, Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden. Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. Feehily has also co-written songs, some with the other band members.
Feehily has sung completely solo on songs for the band in some instances: a song the band wrote called "Imaginary Diva" of World of Our Own album and externally written "Talk Me Down" of Where We Are album and also "Before It's Too Late" of Gravity. At live performances, he also sang completely solo for the song "Silent Night". Feehily has also co-written songs, some with the other band members.
Feehily is banned for life from the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles following an incident during which he got drunk and threw some items from a window of the hotel.
Feehily has spoken to The Boston Globe of his embarrassment about Westlife's Rat Pack-tribute album, Allow Us to Be Frank, and blamed their label for forcing them to record it after Robbie Williams had success with this type of music, dismissing the instance a "a weird time" in Westlife's career
Feehily intends to have a solo career after Westlife and wishes to write a book and a musical

Brian McFadden

Brian McFadden
McFadden at a signing at a HMV store in Dublin, Ireland in April 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Brian Nicholas McFadden
Born	12 April 1980 (age 31) Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Pop, soft rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Sony BMG (2004–07) BMF (2007–present) Universal (2008–present)
Associated acts	Westlife Kerry Katona Delta Goodrem
Website	brianmcfadden.com

Brian Nicholas McFadden (born 12 April 1980), is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the Irish boyband Westlife. He is now a judge on Australia's Got Talent.

Following his departure from Westlife, McFadden released his debut solo album, Irish Son which peaked within the top 5 on both the Danish and Irish Albums Charts, and produced his first two No. 1 solo singles "Real to Me" in four European countries and also "Almost Here", a duet with his now ex-fiancée Delta Goodrem which gained a platinum accreditation in Australia "Like Only a Woman Can", the lead single from his second album, Set in Stone (2008), became his third No. 1 single as a solo artist^. In 2010, McFadden scored his fourth No. 1 with the hit single, "Just Say So" featuring American rapper, Kevin Rudolf and gained his second Australian platinum accreditation The single received a nomination at the 2010 ARIA Music Awards for Most Popular Australian Single

Westlife history

History about Westlife
 Origins ♥The story of Westlife, started in 1996 in Sligo, a small town in the north of Ireland. 3 teenagers, Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and are often active in theater in Ummerhill College. Third teenager gets a lead role in a drama Grease and their appearance was a big stepping stone. One night after the show, when they are vocal exercises playfully, Mary McDonagh suddenly approached him and said, "I want you guys to form a band". After that they began to bring the songs "Take That", a mega popular band in the mid 90's. As will be named, Mary gives a very strange name of "6 As 1" (Kian, Shane, Mark, Derek, Michael, and Graham). Beginning in 1997, six of them began to appear in theaters in Sligo and a lot of people who direct fans jamming with this new boy band.
♥ 6 As a Being IOUsTheir fans in Sligo continues to grow. In August 1997, 6 As a show with a rendition of songs from Boyzone and the Backstreet Boys (BSB) in the presence of more than 500 people. But, they have a complaint that is not like the name of his boy band. So they decided to change the name of the boy band they are IOUs. IOUs and then record a single titled "To Get A Girl Forever". A local TV news show broadcast the event and it attracted the attention of their appearance Louish Walsh, manager of the group's most successful pop band in Europe, Boyzone.
Shown Together ♥ Backstreet Boys (BSB)Opportunity to be a BSB concert opening band is a big surprise for the IOUs. BSB fans as many as 9,500 people were satisfied with the appearance of IOUs. Unfortunately there is a problem, although the IOUs are good but the sound Shane, Kian and Mark did not fit with the three other personnel. Therefore, forced to do some perunbahan.
Replace Again Become ♥ WestsideOnce the decision to break up the IOUs, then Shane, Kian and Mark appeared as a trio. But there are still voices that are less than three of them. They feel there should be additional vocals so they sound really harmonious. Then held auditions in Dublin, Ireland to look for four personnel. Hundreds of enthusiastic young singers who participated in the audition, including Nicky Byrne and Bryan McFadden. Nicky and Bryan was actually old friends. They both often dreamed of becoming a member of the group and have since childhood. They hope they can be selected, but you are looking for just one person. But good luck to them poorer sides. Finally, Nicky and Bryan became personila IOUs. To start a new move, they change the name of his boy band for the third time. Name of the boy band they are the Westside (which is a tribute to Sligo, home of Shane, Kian and Mark in his Westside Ireland).
♥ Finally Being WestlifeThe life of Shane, Kian, Mark, Bryan, and Nicky as Westside did not last long. Because the name of the Westside has become the name of the other bands. Therefore, the fifth guy this cool boy band were forced to change his name for the fourth time. This time they chose the name Westlife. In July 1998, Westlife began performing with Boyzone UK tour and in October, they received an award from the magazine Smash Hits Award for "Best New Tour Act". On 19 April 1999, their single titled "Swear It Again" became a best seller. With the release of second single "If I Let You Go", became the boy band Westlife's first two singles topped the UK charts. But they are not satisfied there. Single third, fourth, and fifth also managed to sit in the first rank on the UK charts and was a huge success that never felt any bands in the UK.
♥ From Being 4 5 PersonnelAfter about 7 years together, finally Bryan McFadden decided to get out of Westlife. This is unfortunate decision by many parties. Especially his fellow Westlife. Bryan chose to spend most of his family bursama Waku. He also opted for a career as a solo singer. Although it was so heavy, but Shane, Nicky, Kian and Mark can take it if it's the best. Since the date of March 9, 2005, Bryan left and is no longer officially a Westlife personnel.