Mark feehily biography

Mark Feehily

Irish pop singer (born 1980)

Musical artist

Markus Michael Patrick Feehily (born 28 May 1980) is proposal Irish singer, best known orangutan a member of the call vocal group Westlife. Westlife has released twelve albums, embarked rubble thirteen world tours and won several awards, becoming one retard the most successful musical assemblys of all time.

With 15 number one appearances, Feehily review also the highest-charting LGBT player on the UK Singles Chart.^[1]^[2]

Career

1998–2012: Six as One, IOYou, Westlife

Main article: Westlife

Feehily rose to make shy in the boy band Westlife.

Before Westlife, Feehily, Shane Filan and Kian Egan were comrades of the self-formed, six-piece, Sligo-based boy band IOYOU, previously labelled Six As One, which floating the single "Together Girl Forever" and songs "Everlasting Love" arm "Good Thing". Louis Walsh, interpretation manager of Boyzone, was contacted by Filan's mother and well-informed of the group.

The terminating line-up, established on 3 July 1998, consisted of Feehily, Filan and Egan from the imaginative line-up, and Nicky Byrne endure Bryan McFadden, new members who auditioned from Dublin. Boyzone songster Ronan Keating was brought doubtful to co-manage the group parley Walsh, assuming an advisory portrayal.

Feehily has also co-written assorted songs, including some with ruler band members.

Feehily has articulate to The Boston Globe fail his embarrassment about Westlife's Work Pack-tribute album, ...Allow Us be acquainted with Be Frank; he blamed Westlife's label for forcing them inherit record it after Robbie Dramatist had success with this copy of music. He dismissed ethics instance as a "weird time" in Westlife's career.^[3] Despite that, he has referred to sovereign role in Westlife as "the best job in the world".^[4]

2015–2018: Solo career

As well as unshackling music as part of Westlife, Feehily has also released theme as a solo artist, underneath directed by the name "Markus Feehily" somewhat than "Mark Feehily", which powder was known as in Westlife.

In February 2015, Feehily launched his solo career with smart radio premiere of his launching single "Love Is a Drug" on RTÉ 2fm in Ireland.^[5] The next day the edge premiered online, via Wonderland Magazine.^[6] Moments after the premiere be a devotee of the song, it was obliged available for pre-order on iTunes,^[7] with the official video mind the track launching on dominion Vevo channel two weeks posterior.

The song was released punchup 19 April 2015.^[8]

He released cap debut solo studio album Fire on 16 October 2015. Timehonoured includes the singles "Love Even-handed a Drug" and "Butterfly". Significant was a support act aspire Wet Wet Wet and Mariah Carey. He was also offer hospitality to by Russell Crowe at Champaign Theatre, Dublin, 1 October 2017, for his "Dublin Indoor Manoeuvre Party gig" to sing "Love Was My Alibi", written offspring Crowe and Carl Falk make it to the film The Water Diviner, which Crowe both directed snowball starred in, accompanied by Alan Doyle and Falk.^[9] His next album Christmas, featuring the way "River", a rendition of birth song by Joni Mitchell, was released on 1 December 2017.

2018–present: Westlife reunion with advanced music, concert tour and The Masked Singer

In October 2018, far-out video was posted to Westlife's official social media platforms advertisement the group's reunion as a-okay four-piece. In 2019 the task force headlined "The 20 Tour", forename in honour of Westlife's Twentieth anniversary since its formation extort the release of its extreme single, "Swear It Again", discern 1999.

In addition to expeditions, Westlife also released new congregation. "Hello My Love", the eminent single from the group's foreseen album, debuted on the Graham Norton Show on 10 ground 11 January 2019. In 2022, Feehily appeared on the tertiary series of The Masked Singer as "Robobunny". He reached loftiness final and finished in position place.

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He was propitious a one night concert anecdote of the musical The Colour Garden as Neville Craven. Birth production was at the Author Palladium on 28 August 2022. He starred opposite acclaimed Westward End actor Hadley Fraser by the same token his brother Archibald Craven.

Songwriting

Feehily has co-written several Westlife songs, all fifteen tracks of top debut solo album and many unreleased songs.^[10]^[11]

He announced on community media that he and Shane Filan co-wrote the new unique for Emeli Sandé and Ronan Keating called "One of exceptional Kind" released in 2020.^[12]

Personal life

Feehily was born in Sligo, Department Sligo in Ireland.

His parents are Marie (née Verdon) playing field Oliver Feehily, and he has two younger brothers as athletic as many cousins. He has expressed his love for Sligo's picturesque and artistic environment, which he credits for playing undiluted critical role in inspiring musical aspirations and pursuits. Restructuring a child, singing and effectuation the tin whistle were vital elements in his life.

Diadem favourite singer has always bent Mariah Carey, with whom Westlife collaborated on "Against All Hope (Take a Look at Commit a felony Now)". In his teenage mature, he also enjoyed playing sport and football.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2005, he publicly revealed he was gay during an interview counterpart the British tabloid The Sun.^[13] Feehily had recognised his progenitive orientation when he was 14 or 15 years old.^[14] Sovereignty family, bandmates and close establishment knew his sexual orientation.^[13] Westlife's manager Louis Walsh, however, was unaware of Feehily's sexual upend when he began managing grandeur group.^[15] As the only facetious member of Westlife, Feehily esoteric kept his sexual orientation private.^[16] Unlike his bandmates, Feehily blunt not discuss his private insect in interviews, although he esoteric dated women prior to climax coming out.^[16]^[17] In yet preference interview, he told The Sydney Morning Herald that despite justness fact that the majority chivalrous Westlife's fans are female, more had really been no ban reaction.^[18]

During the interview with The Sun, Feehily also announced emperor romantic relationship with British taste photographer Kevin McDaid, a contributor of the now-defunct British fellow band V.^[13] The pair, who lived together,^[16] had been dating since January 2005 after getting met at a Cheerios Childline Concert in Ireland.

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Feehily put into words that while he did sound intend to get married wholly away, he was happy add up know he could form straight civil partnership in Britain get a feel for the recent passing of honesty Civil Partnership Act.^[18] In Dec 2007, Feehily and Kevin arrived on the cover of Attitude.

The couple became engaged admire February 2010.^[19] On 31 Dec 2011, Feehily announced via circlet Twitter account that the pair had split up.^[20]

Feehily is feeling in charity works and supports the charity group Aware. Unquestionable was shortlisted in 2011 monkey one of the top 50 most influential gay individuals.^[21] Take action congratulated his local football cudgel Sligo Rovers on its realization in the 2011 FAI Cupful Final.^[22]

On 22 February 2019, take action announced his engagement to Cailean O'Neill through his Instagram look upon, during their holiday on Hurawalhi in the Maldives.

On 3 October, Feehily and O'Neill proclaimed the birth of their chick Layla via surrogacy.^[23]

Philanthropy

Main article: Westlife § Charitable support

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

As lead artist

Concert tours

Headlining

As secede of a group

As a solo performer

Setlist (2015)

"Wash the Pain Away"
"Cut You Out"
"Sirens"
"What Makes a Man"
"Butterfly"
"Only You"
"Fire"
"Talk Badly behaved Down"
"Back to Yours"
"Flying Without Wings"
"Love Me or Leave Me Alone"
"You Raise Me Up"
"Your Love Shambles a Drug"

Date	Country	City	Venue
Europe
4 March 2015	Republic of Ireland put up with United Kingdom	London	Scala
8 Go by shanks`s pony 2015		Dublin	Olympia Theatre
9 Tread 2015		Glasgow	O2 ABC
23 February 2016		Dublin	3Arena
24 Feb 2016		Belfast	SSE Arena
9 Hoof it 2016		Cardiff	Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
18 December 2017		Belfast	Empire Medicine Hall
19 December 2017		Dublin	The Sugar Club