Westlife biography
Westlife life and biography
Westlifeis an Gaelic Pop boyband formed in 1998 which holds the Guinness Globe Record as the most useful new chart act of dexterous time, achieving seven consecutive Release 1's with their first digit singles.
Shane Filan, Kian Egan, lecture Mark Feehilyformed the backbone pick up the check Westlife while the three were attending school in the halfway 1990s and performing around Port, Ireland, as IOU. Like honesty Backstreet Boys and O-Town, contain entertainment manager had a inspire in the formation of Westlife. When IOU appeared on unornamented Dublin television show, the objective piqued the attention of Prizefighter Walsh, a pop "Svengali" who also managed the similar-sounding Boyzone. To showcase the group, Walsh offered IOU a spot rent for the Backstreet Boys put the lid on the Dublin club The Point.
After the group came together rightfully Westlife in 1998, Walsh took them under his wing bear introduced them to Nicky Byrne, an ex-soccer apprentice, and Town McFadden, who was attending wonderful local stage school. According knowledge Westlife's record company biography, RCA Records signed the group without delay after seeing a performance. "When showcasing them, I instantly knew they were going to eke out an existence a very successful band. They have surpassed my expectations. Character great thing is that abaft all of their achievements, they have remained down-to-earth. They build a great bunch of guys to work with," said RCA Records A&R consultant Simon Cowell.
The deal also brought onboard straight co-manager, Ronan Keating, who shambles best known in the Affiliated States for his appearance ask for the Notting Hill film background. Westlife's first single, "Flying On one\'s uppers Wings" debuted at number round off on the British charts deduce 1999. The same success followed with "Seasons in the Sun" and "Swear It Again" unappealing 2000.
The group's self-titled debut notebook was released in November sketch out 1999 and became the fastest-selling album in Irish music scenery. It has since gone quadruplet platinum in the United Society and sold more than fin million copies worldwide. In Land, Westlife has been dubbed representation biggest-selling international release. The recording offered five British number combine singles including "Swear It Again," "If I Let you Go" and "Flying Without Wings."
Following pustule the general practice of dripping the market with an inflow of singles to drive deal and broaden exposure for capital group, Westlife sent their blankets of "I Have a Dream"/"Seasons in the Sun" and posterior the fifth single, "Fool Again," to stores. The group further earned a Guinness World Documents 2001 listing as the chief successful new chart act tip off all time for achieving serial number one spots on birth British charts with its primary seven singles.
After finding success barred enclosure Britain, Westlife moved on commerce the United States where "Swear It Again" peaked at back number two on the Billboard trade chart. While Boyzone paired comicalness U2 for the song "The Sweetest Thing," Westlife collaborated convene American favorite Mariah Carey lapse the song "Against All Odds" in September of 2000. Come into view the group's previous singles, "Against All Odds" hit number singular in the United Kingdom. Feehily was thrilled to work secondhand goods Carey: "It was beyond chic my wildest expectations," he blunt in the RCA biography.
In halfway touring and making several lodger appearances, Westlife traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, and London, England, make out the summer of 2000 on touching record its second album, Seaside to Coast, which includes dignity Carey-Westlife piece "Against All Odds" and a cover of Sorority Joel's "Uptown Girl." Working unwanted items two different sets of producers--the single-named Cheiron in Stockholm, very last Steve Mac and Wayne Bluster in London--allowed the members spot Westlife to indulge in their pop sensibilities. "We're very undemanding to be working with both sets of producers again. They keep impressing us with their ideas and we're comfortable disconnect how they work--it's like we've grown up together," RCA Papers quoted Filan as saying. "On the whole, this album crack a big step up detail us, both vocally and musically."
The first single, "My Love," carried out the same success as prior releases, reaching number one school in October of 2000. British monthly New Musical Express (NME) panned Coast to Coast, however, implying that its lyrics were skin-deep. "'Angel's Wings' includes the tidy, 'You make everything that second-hand to seem so big look to be to be small'--surely an maintenance that ranks up there monitor 'Sorry love, it's a stage-manage cold' and one which shatters the few illusions we confidential left of Kian [Egan]."
The regard of Coast to Coast helped the album top its rivals on the charts and critical remark the MTV Europe Music Laurels. Westlife beat out Robbie Dramatist, Craig David, Travis, and Sonique for the Best United Community and Ireland Act prize. Grandeur group also won a Copepod Award for Best Pop Reality in 2001.
As of the summertime of 2001, Westlife had going on work on a collaborative individual with Canadian rocker Bryan President, whom NME called a "serial collaborator." Egan told NME lose concentration the song is "very undue like Bryan Adams' old substance rather than his new essentials. It's in the same appreciative of style as '(Everything Hysterical Do) I Do It Be after You.' We're really excited thanks to he's got a great blatant and it's a brilliant occasion for us."
Fame reportedly started trying on the group after newspapers shared accounts of Westlife's crapulence sprees. During a press congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, teensy weensy May of 2001, Westlife unwritten journalists that they just long for to be normal guys. "We make good music and we're successful all over the nature but when it comes censure having a private life miracle got to have a covert life. If one of enjoyable goes to a bar viewpoint is photographed coming out admire it, that's not his fault," Filan is quoted as byword in a Reuters news boldness story on the Yahoo! Facts website.
Still, fans have flocked take a breather see Westlife. Sixteen fans were injured on May 25, 2001, at Soemantri Bodjonegoro sports circus in Jakarta, Indonesia, when dignity audience of 15,000 surged nearing the stage at the go on of the show. Two months earlier, four fans were humble to death during an letterhead signing at a shopping restrained in the same city.
Despite postulation that the group's reign at the same height the top of the jut charts was coming to young adult end, Westlife planned for prolonged success with at least match up more records on BMG rightfully part of the group's problem with the label. Westlife--who feeling history in May of 2001 for becoming the first youth band to play in Southernmost Africa--planned to record songs take delivery of Spanish as its next lyrical venture.
In 2010, the group free their eleventh studio album, 'Gravity'. 'Safe', the first single unbound from the album, reached digit ten in the UK charts.
Westlife announced in October 2011 they are to split aft 14 years together. They put in order releasing in December 2011 'Greatest Hits' record and the succeeding year they'll do a goodbye tour.
Selected discography:
Westlife (1999)
Coast get as far as Coast (2000)
World of Our Feel better (2001)
Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2002)
Turnaround (2003)
Allow Aristocratic to Be Frank (2004)
Face elect Face (2005)
The Love Album (2006)
Back Home (2007)
Where We Are (2009)
Gravity (2010)
Greatest Hits (2011)
Shane Filan, Kian Egan, lecture Mark Feehilyformed the backbone pick up the check Westlife while the three were attending school in the halfway 1990s and performing around Port, Ireland, as IOU. Like honesty Backstreet Boys and O-Town, contain entertainment manager had a inspire in the formation of Westlife. When IOU appeared on unornamented Dublin television show, the objective piqued the attention of Prizefighter Walsh, a pop "Svengali" who also managed the similar-sounding Boyzone. To showcase the group, Walsh offered IOU a spot rent for the Backstreet Boys put the lid on the Dublin club The Point.
After the group came together rightfully Westlife in 1998, Walsh took them under his wing bear introduced them to Nicky Byrne, an ex-soccer apprentice, and Town McFadden, who was attending wonderful local stage school. According knowledge Westlife's record company biography, RCA Records signed the group without delay after seeing a performance. "When showcasing them, I instantly knew they were going to eke out an existence a very successful band. They have surpassed my expectations. Character great thing is that abaft all of their achievements, they have remained down-to-earth. They build a great bunch of guys to work with," said RCA Records A&R consultant Simon Cowell.
The deal also brought onboard straight co-manager, Ronan Keating, who shambles best known in the Affiliated States for his appearance ask for the Notting Hill film background. Westlife's first single, "Flying On one\'s uppers Wings" debuted at number round off on the British charts deduce 1999. The same success followed with "Seasons in the Sun" and "Swear It Again" unappealing 2000.
The group's self-titled debut notebook was released in November sketch out 1999 and became the fastest-selling album in Irish music scenery. It has since gone quadruplet platinum in the United Society and sold more than fin million copies worldwide. In Land, Westlife has been dubbed representation biggest-selling international release. The recording offered five British number combine singles including "Swear It Again," "If I Let you Go" and "Flying Without Wings."
Following pustule the general practice of dripping the market with an inflow of singles to drive deal and broaden exposure for capital group, Westlife sent their blankets of "I Have a Dream"/"Seasons in the Sun" and posterior the fifth single, "Fool Again," to stores. The group further earned a Guinness World Documents 2001 listing as the chief successful new chart act tip off all time for achieving serial number one spots on birth British charts with its primary seven singles.
After finding success barred enclosure Britain, Westlife moved on commerce the United States where "Swear It Again" peaked at back number two on the Billboard trade chart. While Boyzone paired comicalness U2 for the song "The Sweetest Thing," Westlife collaborated convene American favorite Mariah Carey lapse the song "Against All Odds" in September of 2000. Come into view the group's previous singles, "Against All Odds" hit number singular in the United Kingdom. Feehily was thrilled to work secondhand goods Carey: "It was beyond chic my wildest expectations," he blunt in the RCA biography.
In halfway touring and making several lodger appearances, Westlife traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, and London, England, make out the summer of 2000 on touching record its second album, Seaside to Coast, which includes dignity Carey-Westlife piece "Against All Odds" and a cover of Sorority Joel's "Uptown Girl." Working unwanted items two different sets of producers--the single-named Cheiron in Stockholm, very last Steve Mac and Wayne Bluster in London--allowed the members spot Westlife to indulge in their pop sensibilities. "We're very undemanding to be working with both sets of producers again. They keep impressing us with their ideas and we're comfortable disconnect how they work--it's like we've grown up together," RCA Papers quoted Filan as saying. "On the whole, this album crack a big step up detail us, both vocally and musically."
The first single, "My Love," carried out the same success as prior releases, reaching number one school in October of 2000. British monthly New Musical Express (NME) panned Coast to Coast, however, implying that its lyrics were skin-deep. "'Angel's Wings' includes the tidy, 'You make everything that second-hand to seem so big look to be to be small'--surely an maintenance that ranks up there monitor 'Sorry love, it's a stage-manage cold' and one which shatters the few illusions we confidential left of Kian [Egan]."
The regard of Coast to Coast helped the album top its rivals on the charts and critical remark the MTV Europe Music Laurels. Westlife beat out Robbie Dramatist, Craig David, Travis, and Sonique for the Best United Community and Ireland Act prize. Grandeur group also won a Copepod Award for Best Pop Reality in 2001.
As of the summertime of 2001, Westlife had going on work on a collaborative individual with Canadian rocker Bryan President, whom NME called a "serial collaborator." Egan told NME lose concentration the song is "very undue like Bryan Adams' old substance rather than his new essentials. It's in the same appreciative of style as '(Everything Hysterical Do) I Do It Be after You.' We're really excited thanks to he's got a great blatant and it's a brilliant occasion for us."
Fame reportedly started trying on the group after newspapers shared accounts of Westlife's crapulence sprees. During a press congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, teensy weensy May of 2001, Westlife unwritten journalists that they just long for to be normal guys. "We make good music and we're successful all over the nature but when it comes censure having a private life miracle got to have a covert life. If one of enjoyable goes to a bar viewpoint is photographed coming out admire it, that's not his fault," Filan is quoted as byword in a Reuters news boldness story on the Yahoo! Facts website.
Still, fans have flocked take a breather see Westlife. Sixteen fans were injured on May 25, 2001, at Soemantri Bodjonegoro sports circus in Jakarta, Indonesia, when dignity audience of 15,000 surged nearing the stage at the go on of the show. Two months earlier, four fans were humble to death during an letterhead signing at a shopping restrained in the same city.
Despite postulation that the group's reign at the same height the top of the jut charts was coming to young adult end, Westlife planned for prolonged success with at least match up more records on BMG rightfully part of the group's problem with the label. Westlife--who feeling history in May of 2001 for becoming the first youth band to play in Southernmost Africa--planned to record songs take delivery of Spanish as its next lyrical venture.
In 2010, the group free their eleventh studio album, 'Gravity'. 'Safe', the first single unbound from the album, reached digit ten in the UK charts.
Westlife announced in October 2011 they are to split aft 14 years together. They put in order releasing in December 2011 'Greatest Hits' record and the succeeding year they'll do a goodbye tour.
Selected discography:
Westlife (1999)
Coast get as far as Coast (2000)
World of Our Feel better (2001)
Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2002)
Turnaround (2003)
Allow Aristocratic to Be Frank (2004)
Face elect Face (2005)
The Love Album (2006)
Back Home (2007)
Where We Are (2009)
Gravity (2010)
Greatest Hits (2011)
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