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    PERSONEL BIO

    Shane Filan

    Shane Filan at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009
    Background information
    Birth nameShane Steven Filan
    Born 5 July 1979 (age 33)
    OriginSligo, Ireland
    GenresPop
    OccupationsSinger, songwriter
    InstrumentsVocals
    LabelsSonyBMG UK/Ireland
    Associated actsWestlife
    Shane Steven Filan(born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the lead singers of an Irish boy band Westlife before the group disbanded in 2012.

    Contents

    • 1Biography
      • 1.1Musical career
        • 1.1.1As a band member
        • 1.1.2As a solo artist
      • 1.2Personal life
    • 2References
    • 3External links

    Biography

    Filan was born on 5 July 1979 to Peter and Mae Filan, and grew up in Sligo, a busy commercial town in the northwest of Ireland. The youngest of seven children, he has three brothers and three sisters: Finbarr, Peter Jr, Yvonne, Liam, Denise and Mairead. His parents owned a diner in Sligo named Carlton Caf'e located on Cas

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    Westlife - Biography

    After winning six awards at the December 2000 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, the Irish hunks can rightly lay claim to the title of Britain's biggest pop acts - but where did it all start?

    Who are the members of Westlife?

    Original band members Shane Filan, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily were born and grew up in the windy Irish west coast town of Sligo. In 1998, after success on local TV, Boyzone's manager Louis Walsh snapped then up and landed them a support slot in Dublin with boy band stalwarts The Backstreet Boys.

    For the gig the trio contracted two further singers, Dubliners Bryan McFadden and Nicky Byrne. Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating then stepped in to manage the band and help nurture its raw talent.

    Initial success

    In April 1999, Westlife's first single, Swear It Again, stormed into the top of the UK charts and since then there's been no looking back .he boys held the Christmas 2000 number one spot with their version of Abba'

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    Westlife

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    Westlife

    Westlife (from left-to-right: Feehily, Egan, Byrne, Filan) performing in 2009

    OriginSligo and Dublin, Ireland
    GenresPop
    Years active1998 - 2012; 2018 -
    LabelsRCA, Syco, Sony and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)
    MembersShane Filan
    Nicky Byrne
    Kian Egan
    Past member(s)Mark Feehily
    Brian McFadden
    Websitewww.westlife.com

    Westlife is an Irishboy grupp who formed in 1998. The group currently consists of Shane Filan, Nicky Bryne and Kian Egan. Bryan McFadden left the band on March 9, 2004 to give more of his time to his family life with the British TV personality and former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona, although he has subsequently separated from her and changed the spelling of his first name back to "Brian". Mark Feehily left the grupp in 2024 due to health issues.

    Westlife did not mana