Shane Steven Filan

Shane Steven Filan was born on 5 July 1979, in Sligo, Ireland. He is the son to Peter and Mae Filan. His mother worked as a clerk in the town hall at Carrick-on-Shannon. Before Filan was born, his mother had complications during her pregnancy and almost miscarried him twice. Filan has six siblings; three brothers and three sisters and he is the youngest among them. His parents owned a diner named Carlton Café located on Castle Street, in the middle of Sligo and he used to work, spending every school holiday working behind the counter from a very early age.

He attended primary school at Summerhill College, a Catholic school, with Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. All three of them participated in a school production of Grease. The Hawkswell Theatre became a significant part of their careers. Filan was a fan of Michael Jackson as a child, and claimed the singer inspired him to pursue a career in music.
Filan married his childhood sweetheart, Gillian Walsh on 28 December 2003 at Ballintubber Abbey, followed by a reception at Ashford Castle, Ireland. Gillian is the cousin of fellow band member Kian Egan, making Filan and Egan cousins-in-law. They have three children: daughter Nicole Rose (born on 23 July 2005 in Sligo, Ireland) and sons Patrick Michael, (born on 15 September 2008 in Sligo, Ireland) and Shane Peter (born 22 January 2010), named after his father.
He and his eldest brother, Finbar, run Shafin Developments – a property development company. The company was placed in receivership in May 2012 and Filan was declared bankrupt a little over a month later after suffering losses in Ireland's property crash.

Before Westlife, Egan and Feehily were with Filan in a band known as I.O.U. with other Sligonians Derrick Lacey, Graham Keighron and Michael "Miggles" Garrett. He partly wrote the IOYOU's song "Together Girl Forever". For 6 months, Shane's mother, Mae Filan, tried to phone Louis Walsh (who is also the manager of Boyzone). Eventually, she was able to speak to him and talked about her son's band. Three of them were dropped and the other three, Shane, Kian and Mark, joined in finding two more singers for the band. Then they were joined by Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden to form Westside. The name of the band then changed to Westlife as there were already a number of bands with the name Westside.
Filan, along with Feehily, was the lead singer in Westlife. Their first album was released in November 1999, titled Westlife. With Westlife, Filan has received twenty-eight platinum discs and sold 40 million records worldwide.
On 20 October 2011, Westlife announced that they had decided to split and go their separate ways at the end of their 2012 Farewell Tour. Filan showed interest of being a solo music artist as his daily living. In December 2011, the press said Filan was close to sealing a solo deal as several UK record labels are battling it out to sign the singer. Shane and his manager Louis Walsh, have been in talks with several record companies in London that month.
In December that year, it was announced that Filan has landed with a recording contract with Universal Music Entertainment. He spent time in Nashville with some well-known pop singers to boost his solo career. On 9 April 2013, an official website for Filan was launched, with a countdown to reveal news about his solo career. On 12 April, the official website of opened with an apology for keeping the fans waiting for a long time, and an announcement from him that he has signed a record deal with London Records, which is a part of Universal music Entertainment Group. He also stated that he had spent the past 12 months in both US and UK writing songs and recording. He also announced that a forthcoming single and an album later this year.
On 10 May, he announced that his first single will be released, along with three other tracks as an EP, via his Twitter account. On 17 May, he released a teaser from the studio through his official YouTube channel, and issued some lyrics featured in the teaser through Facebook and Twitter and also uploaded the photo of the lyrics in Instagram.

Filan has co-written a number of songs including: Love Always (2017) : "Completely", "Eyes Don't Lie", "Crazy Over You" ; Right Here (2015) : "I Could Be", "Right Here", "Better off a Fool", "I Can't Get Over You", "Effortlessly You", "All My Love"; You and Me (2013) : "Everything to Me", "About You", "All You Need to Know", "Knee Deep in My Heart", "One of These Days", "Everytime", "Always Tomorrow", "When I Met You", "Everything’s Gonna Be Alright", "Coming Home", "Baby Let's Dance", "In the End", "You and Me", "Just the Way You Love Me", "Once", "Today's Not Yesterday" ; Westlife (1998–2012) : "Fragile Heart", "Bop Bop Baby" (reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart), "Don't Say It's Too Late", "I Wanna Grow Old with You", "I'm Missing Loving You","Singing Forever", "Where We Belong", "Never Knew I Was Losing You", "Love Crime", "How Does It Feel", "Crying Girl", "Reason for Living", "Miss You When I'm Dreaming", "A Little Part of Me / Little Part of Me / Extraordinary Love", "Love Ain't War", "This Life", "Closer", "Too Hard to Say Goodbye", "Last Mile of the Way"

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