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BIOGRAPHY westlife

Biography

In April 2009, Westlife convened as four at the central London flat of Mark Feehily. Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne and Feehily himself had taken a year off in 2008 after an unprecedented run of 14 number one singles, 10 chart-topping albums, 40million sales, a sequence of yearly record-breaking, pyrotechnically astonishing and fan-delighting stadium tours. Oh, and becoming possibly the most recognisable Irish faces on the planet after Bono. They sat in Feehily’s living room and thought about the year that they had spent apart. ‘And we said to one another,’ says Filan, with sanguine good measure, ‘that we didn’t need to make another record. We had to want to.’

The quartet of men that make up Westlife are charming to a fault; a positive bellwether of good show-business manners. They had socialised together in their time off, most notably at Egan’s wedding in Barbados, but they had spent twelve crucial months remembering who they were as human beings, not as the collective face of the biggest selling act in Britain of the decade. The sums and rewards of their success had come to mean less than the graft they had put into it towards the end of their unbroken tenure at the top pop tier. It hardly needs pointing out that those millions of records don’t sell themselves. It takes time, effort and a whole lot of stamina being any one of the four quarters of Westlife. Not to mention the tapping of your vocal and performance talent on a daily basis. ‘We had almost forgotten who we were outside of the band,’ says Feehily.

Let us recap. When Westlife formed – before Flying Without Wings, World Of Our Own, What Makes A Man, Fool Again, My Love, their endless hit list of platinum balladeering, mostly punctuated with an iconic key-change standing-from-the-stools moment – they were barely out of their boyhood. Their ages ranged from 17-19. When they began, their competitors in an aggressively revitalised British pop market were All Saints, Steps and B*Witched. The long-deceased Busted were not yet a twinkle in their management’s eye. Whilst their friends from back home were preparing to go to college, to take up apprenticeships, to learn trades or to travel the world, Mark, Kian, Shane and Nicky were donning suits and scrubbing up nicely for a decade long campaign of top notch music-making directed straight at the heart of the international pop psyche. The thing is? They got there. At the age of the 29-31, it was time for a brief catch-up with themselves. To look back at all that incredible musical achievement and consider what happened next.

Shane spent most of his year off looking after his family, wife and two children, with the occasional foray onto the golf course and the football pitch. ‘It was a holiday at home, basically. Something I’ve never done. We’ve done life back to front from most people of our age. We started off with success and then we’ve had to take the time to develop as people. Now was the time to do it.’ It gave him a chance to ponder the madness of the first few years of Westlife mania, both from the outside perspective of the fans that christened them the nation’s favourite pop act, and internally, from the perspective of their own crazy diaries.

He thought about, to pluck a random example out of the air of what four boys might get up to whilst conquering the globe with pop, the time he and Kian engaged in a drinking competition on their first tour which lasted – wait for it with a deep breath now – sixty days. ‘I was counting!’ he says. ‘All fuelled by Smirnoff. We’d be on stage and we’d wink to each other from the side of the stage: ‘ so, are we out tonight then, boys?’ Even on our days off we’d go out. We just had to. We were young lads. 19, 20. That’s what we did. But Kian would get very boisterous on the Red Bull. There’s a famous night when he bit me in a play-fight.’ ‘There was always some dodgy bar owner in every town we went to offering to close his bar down for us and the crew for a night,’ adds Kian, ‘And we’d always take them up on it. It was madness. Dancing on the bar-tops and what have you.’ He too has grown up in his year off. ‘I mix my vodka with soda water now. I even leave the lime out. I’ve got it out of my system.’

For Kian, the year out had been underpinned by the tragedy of his father developing a brain tumour, the unbridled joy of marrying his long-term sweetheart and a new joint adventure with Westlife’s manager Louis Walsh, co-managing a new girlband. ‘I didn’t have a single day when I thought ‘ah, what do I do today.’ Life threw everything my way.’ For better and for worse. ‘A lot had happened to me but I was ready to come back. Because of all the sadness with my dad I didn’t want the time to sit around and wallow. I wanted to get back to the thing I love doing because I love doing it again. He didn’t manage to come to the wedding because he was too ill and we debated so long and hard about postponing it and putting it off for a year and his whole attitude to life was to get on and do it, so it felt like honouring him and respecting him more to do it. The same thing with the band. These things happen in life.’

Nicky had followed Shane’s familial path and for the first six months decamped his clan – again, wife and two children – to a newly acquired property in Portugal, before returning to spend half a year in his beloved Dublin. ‘The twins were a year and a half old when the year off started and two and a half when it finished and it is such a privilege to be able to see your kids develop at that age. Most nine-to-five dads don’t get the chance to do that. And it’s time you can’t get back. You can really bond with them.’     

Mark spent the first three months of his off-time doing, ‘Absolutely nothing. I was craving being back in Ireland so I went there and then four or five months in I had a bit of a panic, thinking it’s almost half way through the year now and I haven’t done anything. So I went straight onto the internet and booked flights to start travelling round the world. If I didn’t do it then I never would have done it. Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, India and then to Kian’s wedding in Barbados. I’d seen a lot of places before but I wanted [his partner] Kevin to see them and when I got there I realised I’d mostly seen the inside of hotel rooms. We went on our own adventure together.’ Mark spent a lot of time asking life’s bigger questions. ‘What makes me happy and what makes me sad. Sometimes you need to go away to consider that stuff.’
If the four corners of Westlife are beginning to sound invested with a new found maturity, their year out gave them the opportunity to develop it. When they met up again to talk about recording again, that maturity was ready to be invested back in their pop operation. ‘The truth was that we didn’t want to come back unless there was an album that we wanted to come back with,’ says Mark. ‘It would have been very easy to waltz back into the record company, refreshed,’ says Kian, ‘and say ‘OK, we want to sell 1 million albums again, what have you got for us?’ and go off and record whatever they said. Instead we had the meeting at Mark’s apartment, only us, we went through the music and then went into the record label and said ‘look, we are completely and utterly willing not to make a record here. We want to start, we want to record, but if we are going to do this it has to be a collection of songs that we all love.’’

The title of the album, Where We Are, turned out to be prophetic. Where Westlife were in 2009 was a very different place from the teenage boys who conquered the pop world at the end of the last millennium. ‘We started thinking about people that had never been interested in Westlife before,’ says Nicky, ‘About people hearing a song on the radio and hearing it was us and thinking ‘wow, really?’ We wanted it to feel special again. Not like part of the furniture that fans add to their homes.’

They came back with Backstreet Boys’ Millennium album as a touchstone for the possibilities of 21st century pop music in mind. ‘We didn’t feel like we had an album yet where every single song on the record is a potential single,’ says Shane, ‘There isn’t a weak song on that album and that was what we wanted for Where We Are.’ This refreshed thinking dovetailed perfectly with the iTunes age, where the customer has become accustomed to picking and choosing the three songs they like from an album for the sum total of £2.37, spread over a year, and leaving the rest to simmer on an internet portal. ‘We’ve got to the point where we personally, as a band, understand what a great song is,’ says Mark, ‘it isn’t just about listening to other people and taking everything they say. It’s about our gut instinct as to what makes songs work for a modern pop band.’

The recording sessions began in LA, with a completely fresh team of producers and songwriters. The first song they recorded was the haunting bereavement ballad, I’ll See You Again, a personal favourite of all four. A new sound began to develop, that conjured a brave, epic sound-scape somewhere between Bryan Adams, Jim Steinman’s productions for Meat Loaf and the more moving end of the Celine Dion spectrum. New flourishes were added to what we had become well used to as the Westlife sound; that rousing, choral, hymnal and heroic slow-burning crescendo that seems to find the exact cross-point on the musical graph between the traditions of lullaby folk music and contemporary pop.  A rolling keyboard motif underpins the beginning of Sound of A Broken Heart. The harmonies have been ramped up, making it as much Kian and Nicky’s album as Mark and Shane’s. There is a complete absence of percussion for the first verse and chorus of No More Heroes, only to be embellished by a winning marching band timpani riff for the climactic breakthrough of the second verse. Mark’s lead vocal performance on Talk Me Down is invested with pure man-on-the-edge-of-his-sanity emotional overload, a towering achievement that packs a hard punch. The doctored background vocals that open The Difference are a little nod to electronica. The opening  single What About Now has tinges of a rockier flavour, and already cements the new path as a bona fide radio smash. Where We Are is distinctly Westlife, but somehow more so. 

The boys have a stricter sense of ownership of the record. ‘We’ve starting striving hard again,’ says Mark ‘and we’ve lost the fear of losing what we had. We’re as good as any other pop band in the world now. But we had to learn to use the word ‘no’ when it came to song choices.’ ‘We’re with this record for the long haul,’ says Shane, ‘hopefully we’ll be promoting it right into 2011. We’ve stopped thinking about time spans. We’re not even thinking about when the next record will be made. We want to tour this record, play it around the world in everywhere that wants to hear Westlife. There’s a lot of life in us yet.’ 

A lot of grown-up life, it would seem. On this occasion, a rest is as good as a change.  Where We Are finds Westlife at peak performance, match fit and ready for the second chapter of their incredible story.

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WestliFe ProfiLe

Kian:

Birthday and place of birth: 29th April 1980, Sligo
Starsign: Taurus – and I am like a bull!
I never thought that Westlife would: Have 12 Number One Singles
My favourite Westlife moment: Shooting the video for If I Let You Go in Tenerife
My favourite Westlife track: What Makes A Man
My favourite Westlife video: Fool Again
What the other guys say about me: Very headstrong!
When I'm not working I like to: Spend time in the surf dude!
My motto is: Treat people how you like to be treated


Shane:

Birthday and place of birth: 5th July 1979, Sligo
Starsign: Cancer
I never thought that Westlife would: Still be hugely successful seven years on
My favourite Westlife moment: Meeting the Pope
My favourite Westlife track: Flying Without Wings
My favourite Westlife video: Fool Again
What the other guys say about me: That I am generous and a nice guy!
When I'm not working I like to: Change my daughter’s nappies!
My motto is: Everything happens for a reason


Nicky:

Birthday and place of birth: 9th October 1978, Dublin
Starsign: Libra - I am a beautifully balanced person!
I never thought that Westlife would: Play two nights at Lansdowne Road to 80,000 people.
My favourite Westlife moment: our dads performing on our TV show 'She's The One'
My favourite Westlife track: World Of Our Own
My favourite Westlife video: World Of Our Own (U.S Version)
What the other guys say about me: I'm the longest in the shower
When I'm not working I like to: Spend time with my wife and walk our little pups
My motto is: Smile, enjoy life, live every day like it's your last

Mark:

Birthday and place of birth: 28th May 1980, Sligo
Starsign: Gemini.
I never thought that Westlife would: Win Record Of The Year three times!
My favourite Westlife moment: Meeting the Pope
My favourite Westlife track: Can't Lose What You Never Had
My favourite Westlife video: World Of Our Own (U.S Version)
What the other guys say about me: Where is Mark?!
When I'm not working I like to: Write songs
My motto is: Wake up and breathe!

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Cerita tentang westlife berawal pada tahun 1996 di Sligo, sebuah kota kecil di sebelah utara Irlandia. Tiga orang remaja, Shane Filan, Kian Egan, dan Mark Feehily yang sering aktif dalam kegiatan teater di Ummerhill College. Ketiga orang remaja tersebut mendapat peran utama dalam sebuah drama Grease dan penampilan mereka itu menjadi batu loncatan yang besar. Pada suatu malam setelah pertunjukan, ketika mereka latihan vocal sambil bercanda, tiba-tiba Mary McDonagh mendekati mereka dan berkata "saya ingin kalian membentuk sebuah band". Setelah itu mereka mulai membawakan lagu-lagunya "take that", sebuah band yang mega populer di pertengahan tahun 90-an. Ketika mau diberi nama, Mary memberikan sebuah nama yang sangat aneh yaitu "6 As 1" (Kian, Shane, Mark dan 3 orang penyanyi muda lainnya). Awal tahun 1997, mereka berenam mulai tampil di teater-teater di Sligo dan banyak orang yang langsung ngefans dengan grup baru ini.

6 As 1 Menjadi IOU
fans-fans mereka di Sligo terus bertambah. Pada bulan agustus 1997, 6 As 1 tampil dengan membawakan lagu-lagunya boyzone dan backstreet boys dihadapan lebih dari 500 orang. Tapi mereka punya satu keluhan yaitu tidak menyukai nama band-nya. Jadi mereka memutuskan untuk mengganti nama grup band mereka menjadi IOU. IOU kemudian merekam sebuah single yang berjudul "to get a girl forever". Sebuah acara berita TV lokal menayangkan acara tersebut dan ternyata penampilan mereka itu menarik perhatian Louis Walsh, manager dari grup band pop yang paling sukses di Eropa, Boyzone.

Tampil Bersama BSB (Backstreet Boys)
kesempatan untuk menjadi band pembuka konser BSB merupakan kejutan yang besar untuk IOU. Fans BSB sebanyak 9500 orang ternyata puas dengan penampilan IOU. Sayangnya ada satu masalah, walaupun IOU sudah bagus namun suara Shane, Kian dan Mark tidak terlalu cocok dengan ketiga anggota lainnya. Oleh karena itu, terpaksa dilakukan beberapa perubahan.

Ganti Lagi Menjadi Westside
setelah keputusan untuk memecah IOU, maka Shane, Kian dan Mark tampil sebagai trio. Tapi ternyata masih ada yang kurang dari suara mereka bertiga. Mereka merasa perlu ada vocal tambahan agar suara mereka benar-benar harmonis. Maka diadakan audisi di Dublin, Irlandia untuk mencari anggota keempat. Ratusan penyanyi muda yang antusias ikut dalam audisi tersebut, termasuk diantaranya Nicky Byrne dan Bryan McFadden. Nicky dan Bryan pun sebenarnya sudah lama berteman. Mereka berdua sering bermimpi menjadi anggota grup band sejak mereka masih anak-anak. Mereka berharap keduanya bisa terpilih, tapi yang dicari cuma satu orang saja. Namun keberuntungan ternyata memihak kepada Nicky dan Bryan, akhirnya Nicky dan Bryan pun menjadi anggota baru grup IOU. Untuk memulai langkah yang baru, mereka mengganti nama band mereka untuk ketiga kalinya. Nama band mereka adalah Westside (yang merupakan sebuah penghargaan terhadap Sligo, kampung halaman Shane, Kian dan Mark yang terletak di Westside-nya Irlandia)

Akhirnya Menjadi Westlife
kehidupan Shane, Kian, Mark, Bryan, dan Nicky sebagai Westside ternyata tidak berlangsung lama. Karena nama Westside sudah menjadi nama grup band lain, oleh karena itu kelima cowok keren ini terpaksa mengganti nama grup band mereka untuk keempat kalinya. Kali ini mereka memilih nama Westlife. Pada bulan juli 1998, Westlife mulai tampil keliling Inggris bersama Boyzone dan pada bulan oktober, mereka menerima penghargaan dari majalah Smash Hits Award sebagai "Best New Tour Act". Pada tanggal 19 april 1999, single mereka yang berjudul "swear it again" menjadi best seller. Dengan di rilisnya single kedua "if i let you go", Westlife berhasil menjadi boy band pertama yang kedua single-nya menduduki posisi puncak di tangga lagu Inggris. Tapi mereka tidak puas sampai disitu. Single ketiga, keempat dan kelima juga berhasil duduk di peringkat pertama tangga lagu Inggris dan merupakan sebuah kesuksesan besar yang tidak pernah dirasakan grup band manapun di Inggris.

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"Mereka adalah salh satu boys band asal Irlandia, ntah mengapa aku suka banget ma mereka, kalian suka gak ma mereka???" :-)

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BRYAN profile

Full Name : Bryan McFadden

Date of Birth: 12/4/80

Star Sign : Aries

Place of Birth: Dublin

Height : 1.86m

Any Scars or Marks : Birthmark on lower back

Colour of Eyes : Blue

Colour of Hair : Blonde

Previous Jobs : Bingo caller, Security at Mc Donalds

Previous Bands : Cartel showband from Dublin

Hero : Mum & Dad

Favourite Sport : Soccer

Favourite Film : Titanic

Favourite Actor : Leonardo Di Caprio

Favourite Actress : Jennifer Love Hewitt

Favourite Place to Be : Dublin

Ideal Woman : Jennifer Love Hewitt

Favourite Colour : Red

Favourite Book : The General

Likes : Music, females and spending money

Dislikes : Other people's sadness - I like everyone to be happy

Hobbies : singing

Fave Food : Japanese

Worst Food : Dog Food

Most Like to Meet : Stevie Wonder

Singing since : 4

Describe Yourself In 3 Words : Fun/Shy/Irish

Most Embarrassing Moment : Getting the presenter's name wrong on TV

Pets : Dog called Chip

Girlfriend : Yes, Kerry from Atomic Kitten

Instrument : Guitar and Piano

Bad habit : Forgetfulness

Favourite Clothes : Baggy tracksuit

Favourite Designer : Dolce & Gabbana

Favourite Song : Something Stupid - Frank Sinatra

First Record You Bought : I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue

First Concert : Kylie Minogue in Dublin

Last Record Bought: Kylie Minogue - Light Years

Any Brothers/Sisters : 1 sister called Susan

What Animal Would You Be : A horse

Who Would You Have A One 2 One With? : Nelson Mandela

Most Impressive Person You've Ever Met : Bryan Adams

Rule of life : "Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes"

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MARK profile

Full Name : Marcus Michael Patrick Feehily

Date of Birth : 28/5/80

Star Sign : Gemini

Place of Birth : Sligo, Ireland

Height : 1.78m

Any Scars or Marks : No

Colour of Eyes : Blue

Colour of Hair : Light brown

Previous Jobs : Pizza delivery, photo lab assistant

Previous Bands : I.O.U.

Hero : Mum & Dad and Michael Jackson

Favourite Sport : Soccer/Tennis

Favourite Film : Armageddon

Favourite Actor : Eddie Murphy

Favourite Actress : Phoebe from 'Friends'

Favourite Place to Be : Sligo, Ireland

Ideal Woman : Thoughtful, funny

Favourite Colour : Purple

Favourite Book : 'The Witches' - Ronald Dahl

Likes : Chillin' with my mates, singing and partying

Dislikes : narrow-minded people and smoking

Hobbies : Chillin' out with my pals

Fave Food : Chicken

Worst Food : Fish

Most Like to Meet : Michael Jackson

Singing Since : since I can remember

Describe Yourself In 3 Words : Shy, reserved but also friendly

Most Embarrassing Moment : Forgetting the words to my song at a talent contest in front of 1000 people aged 14

Pets : Dog (Snoopy)

Girlfriend : No - but I'll accept offers!

Instrument : Piano, Guitar and Tin-whistle

Bad Habit : Singing all the time

Favourite Clothes : Trainers and track suit

Favourite Designer : Timberland

Favourite Song : Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson and Without You - Mariah Carey

First Record You Bought : Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

First Concert : Christy Moore

Last Record Bought : Lucy Pearl

Any Brothers/Sisters : 2 brothers/1 sister

What Animal Would You Be : Mariah Carey's cat

Who Would You Have A One 2 One with? : Michael Jackson

Most Impressive Person You've Ever Met : Mariah Carey

Rule of Life : "Money isn't anything, but happiness is."

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KIAN profile

Full Name : Kian John Francis Egan

Date of Birth: 29/4/80

Star Sign : Taurus

Place of Birth : Sligo, Ireland

Height : 1.75m

Any Scars or Marks : Small one on face

Colour of Eyes : Blue

Colour of Hair : Blonde

Previous Jobs : Clothes shop

Previous Bands : 3 rock bands

Hero : Too many to mention

Favourite Sport : Soccer/basketball

Favourite Film : Titanic

Favourite Actor : Brad Pitt

Favourite Actress : Cameron Diaz

Favourite Place to Be : On stage

Ideal Woman : Good looking, good personality, good fun

Favourite Colour : White

Favourite Book : Bravo 2 Zero - Andy McNabb

Likes : Performing on stage, having a good night out and being in Westlife

Dislikes : Rude people

Hobbies : Gym/music/shopping

Fave Food : Steak and chips

Worst Food : Sushi

Most Like to Meet : Michael Jackson

Singing since : 12

Describe Yourself In 3Words : Romantic/Fun/Shy

Pets : No

Girlfriend : Open to offers

Instrument : Guitar and Piano

Bad Habit : I bite my nails

Favourite Clothes : White Alexander McQueen shirt, Nicole Farhi cotton jeans

Favourite Designer : Dolce & Gabbana

Favourite Song : 'Baby One More Time' Britney Spears

First Record You Bought : Glory of Love

First Concert : Michael Jackson in Dublin

Last Record Bought : The Beach Soundtrack

Any Brothers/Sisters : 3 brothers and 3 sisters

What Animal Would You Be : A Lion King

Who Would Who Have A One 2 One With : Madonna

Most Impressive Person You've Ever Met : Lenny Kravitz

Rule of Life : "Treat everybody the same way you want to be treated"

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NICKY profile

Full Name : Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne

Date of Birth : 9/10/78

Star Sign : Libra

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Height : 1.75m

Any Scars or Marks : Scar on right elbow

Colour of Eyes : Blue

Colour of Hair : Blonde

Previous Jobs : Goalkeeper at Leeds United

Previous Bands : None

Hero : Bruce Willis

Favourite Sport : Soccer

Favourite Film : Armageddon

Favourite Actor : Brad Pitt/Bruce Willis

Favourite Actress : Cameron Diaz

Favourite Place to Be : At home in Dublin

Ideal Woman : Elegant, smart, humorous, nice eyes

Favourite Colour : Blue/white

Favourite Book : The Mammy - Bruce O'Carroll

Likes : Football, eating out, shopping and travelling home to Ireland to see my family

Dislikes : Smoking and arrogant people

Hobbies : Flying, travelling

Fave Food : Mum's cooking/Japanese

Worst Food : Prawns

Most Like to Meet : Phil Collins/Madonna

Singing Since : 2 minutes old

Describe Yourself In 3 words : Thoughtful, reliable, trustworthy

Most Embarrassing Moment : Falling over at Elland Road, Leed's United Stadium in front of 30,000 people

Pets : None Girlfriend: Only one, Georgina (The Irish President's daughter!)

Instrument : Learning to play piano

Bad Habit : Forgetfulness

Favourite Clothes : Smart clothes

Favourite Designer: Gucci

Favourite Song : Flying Without Wings

First Record You Bought : I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue

First Concert : The Cranberries in Dublin

Last Record Bought : The Corrs - In The Blue

Any Brothers/Sisters : 1 brother and 1 sister

What Animal Would You Be : A tiger

Who Would You Have A One 2 One With : Liz Hurley

Most Impressive Person You've Ever Met : Barry Manilow

Rule of Life : "Never think that anyone's better than you, and never think that you are better than anyone else."

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SHANE profile

Full Name : Shane Filan

Date of Birth : 5/7/79

Star Sign : Cancer

Place of Birth : Sligo, Ireland

Height : 1.75m

Any Scars or Marks : No

Colour of Eyes : Hazel green

Colour of Hair : Dark brown

Previous Jobs : Hardware Store

Previous Bands : I.O.U.

Hero : Michael Jackson

Favourite Sport : Soccer

Favourite Film : Titanic

Favourite Actor : Tom Cruise

Favourite Actress : Catherine Zeta-Jones

Favourite Place to Be : Sligo

Ideal Woman : Cute, Cuddly and one who loves me

Favourite Colour : Black

Favourite Book: Anything by WB Yeats

Likes : Shopping, going out with friends, horses and singing

Dislikes : Rude people, insects and snakes

Hobbies : Horses

Fave Food : Mum's food and steak and chips

Worst Food : Sushi

Most Like to Meet : Michael Jackson

Singing since : A baby

Describe Yourself In 3 Words : Level-headed, generous, romantic

Pets : 2 dogs and 5 horses

Girlfriend : No

Instrument : Guitar

Favourite Clothes : Long sleeved shirts

Favourite Designer : Dolce & Gabbana

Favourite Song : 'I Believe I Can Fly' R Kelly

First Record You Bought : Uptown Girl- Billy Joel

First Concert : Status Quo in Sligo

Last Record Bought : Craig David album

Any Brothers/Sisters : 3 brothers and 3 sisters

What Animal Would You Be : A stallion

Who Would You Have A One 2 One With? : Michael Jackson

Most Impressive Person You've Ever Met : Mother Teresa

Rule of Life : "You only live once, so live a good life!"