Shane Filan

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Ireland

Active from

1979-07-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

72,960

Total plays

806,407

Shane Filan was born on 5 July 1979 and grew up in Sligo, a small town in the northwest of Ireland. MUSIC CAREER Before Westlife, Filan was in a band known as I.O.U. In 1997, he attended an audition for a new Irish boyband, where he was spotted by Boyzone manager Louis Walsh, and Walsh approached him to join his new venture, Westlife. The three Sligonans joined the band along with Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden. Filan, along with Mark Feehily, is the main lead singer (first voice) in Westlif

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,773x

2. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

   · 2012 · cited 17,970x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,790x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,975x

5. Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools

   · 2021 · cited 15,714x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Steven

Gender

male

Citizenship

Republic of Ireland

Place of birth

Sligo

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

Irish

Genre

pop music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Bertelsmann Music Group

Image

Shane Filan.jpg

Number of children

3

Voice type

tenor

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