Chris de Burgh
Sign in to saveArgentine - British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948-10-05
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Spark to a flame
- Chris de Burgh Anthology (Piano Vocal Guitar)
- The Great Songs of Chris De Burgh (Piano Vocal Guitar)
- Greatest hits for all keyboards
- Into the Light (LP with FREE CD)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Venado Tuerto, Argentina
Christopher John Davison (born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh, is a British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He started out as an art rock performer, but subsequently started writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hits in the UK and two in the US, but he is more popular in other countries, particularly Norway and Brazil. His 1986 love…
Known for
- LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland — Self2024
- Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments — Self2020
- Santiano in Irland – eine musikalische Reise über die grüne Insel — Self2015
- Pur & Friends: Live auf Schalke 2014 — Self2014
- ДИСКОТЕКА 80-х — Self2014
- Zauberhafte Weihnacht im Land der „Stillen Nacht“ — Self2014
- Heiligabend mit Carmen Nebel — Self2012
- Inka Bause Live — Self2012
- Chris de Burgh And Band Footsteps - Live In Concert — Self - Vocal, guitar ...2010
- Chris Moyles' Quiz Night — Self2009
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 851,748
- Total plays
- 8,606,596
Tags
popsoft rock80ssinger-songwriterrock
Christopher John Davison (born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh, is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician born in Argentina. He began his career performing art rock before moving towards a more pop-oriented style. He has achieved several top 40 singles in the United Kingdom and two in the United States, and has been particularly successful in countries such as Norway and Brazil. His songs "A Spaceman Came Travelling" (1975) and "The Lady in Red" (1986) are among his bes
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,726x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,457x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,451x
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Key facts
- Born
- Christopher John Davison , ( 1948-10-15 ) 15 October 1948 (age 77) , Venado Tuerto , Santa Fe Province, Argentina
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter musician
- Years active
- 1974–present
- Spouse
- Diane Davison ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 )
- Children
- 3, including Rosanna Davison
- Origin
- County Wexford , Ireland
- Genres
- Art rock pop soft rock
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano
- Labels
- A&M Ferryman Productions Edel
- Website
- cdeb .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 5 October 1948
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Venado Tuerto
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Educated at
- Marlborough College
- Languages spoken
- French
- Family
- House of Burgh
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- piano
Article
Christopher John Davison (born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh ( English: /də ˈbɜːr/ də-BER), is an English singer-songwriter and musician born in Argentina. He started out as an art rock performer and progressed to writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hit singles in the UK and two in the US. He is more popular in other countries, particularly Norway and Brazil. His 1975 "A Spaceman Came Travelling" became a popular Christmas song and his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red" reached number one in several countries. De Burgh has sold over 45 million albums worldwide.
Early life