Bill Whelan
Folk music of Ireland, Musical Artist
1950 –
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Who is Bill Whelan?
Bill Whelan, is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music. It was released as a single in the UK in 1994, credited to "Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra". It reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995.
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- Born
- May 22, 1950
Limerick - Also known as
- Whelan
- Whelan, Bill
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- Crescent College
- Lived in
- County Limerick
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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