Short Biography
Co-managed by Ronan Keating, Westlife followed Boyzone's lead to become Ireland's most successful boy band.
From their first single, Flying without Wings, Westlife have been a regular chart-topping act and have released several highly successful albums - including Coast to Coast, World of Our Own and the 2002 greatest hits collection Unbreakable.
Recent album Allow us to be Frank saw the foursome performing classic Rat Pack songs. Latest release Face to Face has seen the group make a welcome return back to the top of the charts.
In-depth Biography
In the tradition of British and Irish boy bands like Take That and Boyzone comes Dublin's Westlife, a quintet consisting of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Bryan McFa...
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Short Biography
Co-managed by Ronan Keating, Westlife followed Boyzone's lead to become Ireland's most successful boy band.
From their first single, Flying without Wings, Westlife have been a regular chart-topping act and have released several highly successful albums - including Coast to Coast, World of Our Own and the 2002 greatest hits collection Unbreakable.
Recent album Allow us to be Frank saw the foursome performing classic Rat Pack songs. Latest release Face to Face has seen the group make a welcome return back to the top of the charts.
In-depth Biography
In the tradition of British and Irish boy bands like Take That and Boyzone comes Dublin's Westlife, a quintet consisting of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Bryan McFadden, Mark Feehily, and Kian Egan. Filan, Egan, and Feehily were among the group's six founding members, but the other half of the group was dispatched when Louis Walsh, Boyzone's manager, took interest in them. This made room in the band for Byrne and McFadden; Walsh also introduced Westlife to Boyzone vocalist and solo artist Ronan Keating, who became the group's co-manager shortly after they cemented their recording contract. The group's first single, 1999's "Flying Without Wings," entered the U.K. charts at number one, a feat they replicated with "Seasons in the Sun" and "Swear It Again" in 2000. Their self-titled debut album met with similar chart-topping success and quickly went platinum in their homeland. Westlife was released in the U.S. by Arista Records in early 2000. The group's popularity in Europe continued through the 2000s, with the release of albums such as Turnaround, Allow Us to Be Frank, and Face to Face; the greatest-hits collection Unbreakable, Vol. 1 was also released on DVD. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
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