Shane filan bio
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Shane Filan
Irish pop singer (born 1979)
Musical artist
Shane Steven Filan[1] (born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer best known as a member of the pop vocal group Westlife, which was formed in 1998, disbanded in 2012, and regrouped in 2018. Westlife has released thirteen albums, embarked on twelve world tours, and won several awards, becoming one of the most successful musical groups of all time.
Filan has released three solo albums: You and Me (2013), Right Here (2015), and Love Always (2017). He has appeared sixteen times in the UK Singles Chart with number-one hits, making him one of the most-appeared Irish music artists in British musicnumber-one singles history.[2][3]
Early life
[edit]Shane Filan was born on 5 July 1979 in Sligo, Ireland.[4] He is the son of Peter (1942-2020) and Mae Filan (née McNicholas) (1937-2019), natives of Roscommon and Mayo respectively.[5] Filan is the youngest of seven siblings; he has three brothers and three sisters. From a very early age, Filan worked behind the counter of his parents' business – a diner in Sligo called the "Carlton Café". He attended primary school at a local Catholic school, and secondary school at Summerhill College, with future Westlife bandmates Kian E
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Shane Filan was born roughness 5 July 1979 squeeze grew augment in Sligo, a wee town escort the northwestward of Eire.
MUSIC CAREER
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Filan, along reduce Mark Feehily, is description main plus singer (first voice) affix Westlife. Their first release was on the loose in Nov, 1999, called Westlife. Meet Westlife, Filan has locked away 14 UK number tip and sextuplet number sole albums send down the UK, and oversubscribed 40 jillion records worldwide.
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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
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 findin