Fires, Keating's ninth studio album, was released in 2012. Produced by Burt Bacharach, the album saw Keating take on a selection of Bacharach standards. In 2011 came Keating's eighth studio album, When Ronan Met Burt. Keating released a collection of duets, appropriately titled Duet, in 2010. In 2009 Keating released the heartfelt tribute album Songs for My Mother, which was dedicated to his late mother, Marie, who had passed away from breast cancer in 1998. 10 Years of Hits followed in 2005, and a year later Keating released the studio album Bring You Home. His rendition of Terence Trent D'Arby's "Let Her Down Easy" and songs co-written with Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross were featured in another mature set from the former boy band singer. Two years later, Keating issued Turn It On. This album was another smash overseas, with hit singles such as "I Love It When We Do" and "I've Got My Heart on You," yet it failed to see a release in the States. version followed in October.įor 2002's Destination, Keating collaborated with songwriter and ex-New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander. Ronan was issued overseas in mid-2000, and a U.S. He is a working songsmith with the utmost class, and counterparts like Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow might be considered a bit shy of such inborn grace. His sensual and childlike persona was full-fledged. He recorded his debut solo effort in early 2000 under the craftsmanship of artists such as Bryan Adams and Barry Gibb. He couldn't possibly steer clear of the media spotlight for long and something positive was bound to come of it. Musically, however, Keating's intentions stayed in tune with his internal spirit. He married Irish model Yvonne Connelly in April 1998 and the following year they had a son, Jack. He began managing another male pop group called Westlife.
Six years into being part of one of the U.K.'s brightest and biggest-selling pop bands, Keating searched for an alternate creative outlet. Most notably, Americans will recognize this five-piece as the dashing young men singing behind U2's Bono in "The Sweetest Thing" video.
They released 16 singles, each one charting in the Top Three on the U.K. Boyzone released four albums, every one debuting at number one in the U.K. The 14-year-old beat out 300 hopefuls with his own rendition of the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son" and was headed toward becoming a celebrity. While working in a local shoe store, he noticed a search advertisement for an Irish Take That. The working trudge instilled the desire to work in the youngest Keating. His father, Gerry, was a pub owner and his mother, Marie, was a hairdresser, so financially the Keating family was trying to make ends meet. Born Ronan Patrick John Keating on March 3, 1977, he was the last of four children in the Keating household. But before he was winning over the world, Keating was a middle-class kid living in Dublin. The five Irish lads in Boyzone, who made their debut in 1993, built their charismatic style into one of the biggest European pop/rock acts of the '90s. Biography With those dazzling poster-boy looks, Ronan Keating became one of Europe's most endearing stars as the leader of the Irish boy band Boyzone.
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