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Recent Album: Where We Belong
FORMED: November 1993
Hailing from Ireland, Boyzone was one of many dance-pop quintets to appear in the wake of Take That's mid-'90s, with the sole intent of claiming the departed teen-pop sensation's audience as their own. Like Take That, Boyzone's music alternated between uptempo, hi-NRG dance and
crooning R&B ballads. Comprised entirely of dancers and vocalists, the membership of Boyzone consisted of primary vocalist Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, and Shane Lynch. The group's 1995 debut album, Said and Done, was a huge hit throughout England,
though the group didn't quite manage to reach the phenomenon status of Take That, or even East 17. Boyzone's next successful releases were Different Beat in 1997 and Where We Belong followed in 1998. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide (From CD-NOW Biography)
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Recent Album: Nobody Knows-Best Of Paul Brady
BORN: May 19, 1947, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ir
Talented and prolific singer Paul Brady has enjoyed a career that has seen him pass through several major bands and on to a successful solo phase. He began performing as a hotel piano player in Donegal, Ireland at the age of sixteen and graduated to being guitarist, during the
1960s, in two rhythm and blues bands: Rockhouse and The Cult. There followed a stint with the Johnstons as a guitarist and singer that ended in 1974, and a shorter one with Planxty that saw Brady touring
extensively but recording no albums. In 1976, Brady recorded an album with Andy Irvine that he now regards as his best. Welcome Here Kind Stranger, released in 1978 was the summation of his interest in Irish music and was followed in 1981 by
the appropriately named Hard Station, Brady's engagement with commercial rock. Since that time, Brady has recorded a slew of albums and collaborated with Bonnie Raitt and Richard Thompson. ~ Leon Jackson, All-Music Guide (From CD-NOW Biography)
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