Shane Filan
Shane Filan ( born July 5, 1979 in Sligo as Shane Steven Filan ) is an Irish pop singer who was particularly known for his membership in the band Westlife.
Biography
Filan grew up as the youngest of seven siblings in the small town of Sligo, where his parents ran a snack called Calton café. Early on, he was enthusiastic about music and dance: He learned as a teenager the moonwalk and took part in a school production of the musical Grease. Besides music, horseback riding was one of his favorite hobbies. His parents have a stud at the edge of Sligo, where Shane can still relax by putting on one of his horses. His horse is called " Calton Clover" and his wife Gillian " Calton Sylvester ". The horses' names all begin with " Calton " in the memory of the café.
The first group, of which he was a member IOYOU, came on regional popularity including several television appearances also hardly. From this group the boy band Westlife, whose member he became known as a predominantly young audience from 1999 under the aegis of Boyzone manager Louis Walsh was born. It happens primarily as a singer in appearance, but as a co- composer of some songs the group - called - for example, the top 10 single Bop Bop Baby.
After the dissolution of Westlife, he released his debut single in August 2013 Everything to Me His first solo album You and Me was released in November 2013.
Filan is since 28 December 2003 Gillian Walsh (born 15 May 1980), the cousin Kian Egan, married, with which he daughter Nicole Rose ( born July 23, 2005). On 15 September 2008, her son Patrick and Michael on January 22, 2010, son Shane Peter came into the world. The family now lives in Surrey near London.
Discography
- 2013: You and Me
- 2013: Everything to Me
- 2013: About You
- 2014: Knee Deep in My Heart