Brian Kennedy

Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy (born October 12, 1966 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish singer and author.

Life

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He had his first success in 1990 with his debut album The Great War of Words and the single Captured . In the mid-90s, hits like A Better Man , Put the Message in the Box and Life, Love and Happiness followed , which were able to assert themselves in both the British and Irish charts. The accompanying album A Better Man was album of the year in Ireland and went four times platinum .

In the 1990s, Kennedy was also regularly hired by Van Morrison and was subsequently not only featured as a background singer on a few studio albums, but also supported Van Morrison at numerous live gigs. On his 1994 album "Live at San Francisco", the Irish grandmaster had him interpret both "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" and "Tupelo Honey".

At the turn of the millennium, Brian Kennedy made an excursion to Broadway as a musical actor, where he appeared on the Irish Riverdance show .

In 2005 he sang at the funeral of the Northern Irish football idol George Best, also from Belfast . The commemorative single George Best - A Tribute , released afterwards , became his greatest success to date.

Almost at the same time he was chosen to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 . When the decision was made in May 2006, his self-written Every Song Is a Cry for Love came in 10th. It so happened that this song was the 1000th entry in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Kennedy has also been an author since 2004 and two novels by him have appeared on the English-speaking market so far. In 2009, Kennedy came out as gay.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	IE
1990	The Great War of Words	UK64 (1 week) UK	IE?IE	First published: 1990 Chart data in IE before 2000 not fully available
1991	Goodbye to Songtown	-	IE?IE	with Mark E. Nevin ; First publication: 1991 IE chart data before 2000 not fully available
1996	A better man	UK19th silver (4 weeks)UK	IE1IE	First publication: 1996 Chart data in IE before 2000 not completely available
1999	Now That I Know What I Want	-	IE1IE	First publication: 1999 Chart data in IE before 2000 not completely available
2000	Won't You Take Me Home	-	IE36 (8 weeks) IE	First published: 2000
2001	Get On with Your Short Life	-	IE6 (9 weeks) IE	First published: 2000
2003	On song	-	IE5 (10 weeks) IE	First published: 2003
2004	Live in Belfast	-	IE19 (3 weeks) IE	First published: 2004
2005	On Song 2 - Red Sails in the Sunset	-	IE16 (4 weeks) IE	First published: 2005
2006	Homebird	-	IE9 (9 weeks) IE	First published: 2006
2008	Interpretative	-	IE15 (7 weeks) IE	First published: 2008
2010	The very best of	-	IE40 (3 weeks) IE	First published: 2010
2012	Voice	-	IE3 (1 week) IE	First published: 2012
2016	The Essential Collection	-	IE24 (1 week) IE	First published: 2016

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Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	IE
1990	Captured The Great War Of Words	UK77 (4 weeks) UK	IE26 (2 weeks) IE	First published: 1990
1995	Intuition (Re 1)	-	IE16 (3 weeks) IE	First published: 1995
1996	A Better Man A Better Man	UK28 (3 weeks) UK	IE6 (9 weeks) IE	First published: 1996
	Life, Love & Happiness A Better Man	UK27 (3 weeks) UK	IE16 (4 weeks) IE	First published: 1996
1997	Put The Message In The Box A Better Man	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	IE18 (3 weeks) IE	First published: 1997
1999	These Days Now That I Know What I Want	-	IE4 (9 weeks) IE	First published: 1999 with Ronan Keating
2002	Get On With Your Short Life Get On With Your Short Life	UK81 (2 weeks) UK	IE50 (2 weeks) IE	First published: 2002
2003	You Raise Me Up On Song	UK91 (1 week) UK	IE- × 2 Double platinum IE	First published: 2003
2005	George Best - A Tribute	UK4 (11 weeks) UK	IE3 (16 weeks) IE	First publication: 2005 with Peter Corry
2006	Every Song Is A Cry For Love Homebird	-	IE4 (10 weeks) IE	First published: 2006
2013	Try	-	IE15 (1 week) IE	First published: 2013

More singles

• 1995: intuition
• 1999: These Days (with Ronan Keating)

Web links

• Brian Kennedy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Brian Kennedy's homepage (English)
• Brian Kennedy at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Belfast Telegraph: Brian Kennedy reveals his coming-out torment
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: UK IE1 IE2 (Singles)
3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK IE