Pádraig Duggan

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Pádraig (right) and Noel Duggan, 2004

Pádraig Duggan ( Irish Pádraig Ó Dúgáin ; born January 23, 1949 in Gweedore , County Donegal , † August 9, 2016 in Dublin ) was an Irish musician , composer and co-founder of the band Clannad .

Life

Duggan founded the band Clannad in 1970 with his twin brother Noel and his nephews Ciarán and Pól Brennan and his niece Moya Brennan . Three years later, with the title Liza, composed by Duggan and Pól Brennan, she won the talent competition of the Letterkenny Folk Festival , through which the band got their first recording contract with Philips . Liza was the only song written by band members on the first Clannad album. It is the first pop song in Irish ; decades later it is still used in Irish schools for teaching Irish.

With Clannad, Duggan, who played guitar and mandolin, was commercially successful, especially in the 1980s, although during this time he was only represented as a composer on the 1985 album Macalla . After numerous awards, including a BAFTA and a Grammy Award , the band took a break in the late 1990s. Pádraig and his brother Noel then recorded an album called The Duggans & Friends in 2005 called Rubicon , which also includes a new recording by Liza . Duggan contributed a track to Nádúr , Clannad's 2013 comeback album, Setanta .

Pádraig Duggan died in August 2016 at the age of 67 in a Dublin hospital after a lengthy illness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mark Savage: Clannad founder Padráig Duggan dies . Obituary of the BBC , August 10, 2016, accessed August 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Clannad: Track Listing . Allmusic , accessed on August 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Rubicon . Allmusic , accessed on August 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Duggan, Pádraig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duggan, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gweedore , County Donegal , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2016
Place of death Dublin , Ireland