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从12岁时就开始写歌,和好友组过团,叫NAMESTE。曾经加入学校的合唱团,但被踢出来,因为合唱团的老师说他,不会唱歌。虽然是老么,3个哥哥一个姐姐,但他做个各式各样的工作。在鞋店打过工,进入BOYZONE时还在学校念书,刚成立时与团员晚上在校园和青少年常去的俱乐部表演,每天作二到三场的演出,但是在空闲时,还帮父亲修卡车,帮忙母亲的美发沙龙!一直的梦想是成为像TAKE THAT那么红的团员,直到成为BZ一员,成为主唱,他才真正找到自己心目中的理想事业。
1998年2月,BZ正在录制WHERE WE BELONG,他的母亲因乳癌去世。他几乎无法完成声音配唱的部分,RONAN写THIS IS WHERE I BELONG,唱出自己的成长心情。他后来设立Marie Keating Cancer Awareness Fund,致力乳癌防治。4月BZ的单曲ALL THAT I NEED 直冲冠军。30日,RONAN与大他2岁的模特女友YVONNE在加勒比海的小岛结婚。同年底RONAN被权威偶像杂志读者选为“最佳衣着男士”、“流行王子”、“最想要的男人”!而他也从不受一般媒体重视的偶像派成为受到重视的艺人。
虽然身为BZ的主唱,一直都是最受欢迎BZ成员,但RONAN早在几年前就想要发展个人音乐事业。1997年5月RONAN被选为“欧洲歌曲比赛”主持人,同年接下EMA(欧洲MTV颁奖礼)主持,1998年11月主持“世界小姐”,后来成为WESTLIFE的经纪人,但是他自己说这些都是附加的,最终目标是成为一位顶尖的词曲创作歌手。而直到1999年初,“新娘百分百”电影导演捧着一首歌请RONAN主唱,他才能实现长久以来的想望。
2000年,BZ的成员以“单飞不解散”的形式开始各自的个人事业。RONAN的新单曲唱片“LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER”与7月19日正式发行,而他的首张个人专辑在7月30日推出!
2006年,Ronan Keating推出其个人最新专辑《Bring You Home》,曲风依旧延续他独特的略带伤感的情歌路线,不过也引入了其他类似古典音乐元素等,而且邀请Kate Rusby来共同演唱专辑中的''All Over Again'',此曲被BBC电台评为近来来少有的情歌对唱的精品。其他如单曲 ''Iris'' 在电台也排行榜首。 Ronan Keating 曾经是风靡全球的偶像团体Boyzone的主唱,拥有许多辉煌的成就与头衔:歌手,词曲作者,还曾做过Westlife的经纪人等等。一个专为音乐而生的爱尔兰人。在WESTLIFE之前,几乎没有人不知道一个由五个帅气的小伙子组成的团体Boyzone,正是因为他们的成功,也成就了爱尔兰流行音乐,也为WESTLIFE等开辟了道路。单飞后的Ronan Keating并没有停滞不前,各种荣誉接踵而来,其中被称为是他个人音乐的标志是为电影《Notting Hill》演唱的单曲''When You Say Nothing At All' 为他赢得了众多殊荣。随之,一系列专辑的推出使他称为欧美音乐界顶尖的,具有创作天分的流行歌手。
Ronan Keating---If tomorrow never comes
Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes
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