| Kian |
| Like Shane, Ki's also from a big family. His family and him have always lived in the same house all his life which is about a 10 min walk from Sligo. Kian has got 6 brothers and sisters. The youngest is Colm who is only four. Then there is Marielle who is thirteen and in secondary school. Then its Kian and after him it's Tom who is 22. Next there's Fenella who is 24 and then Gavin, 28 and finally Viv, 30. Kian is close with all his brothers and sisters but Fenella is his closest sister and Tom his closest brother simply because they were in the same age group when growing up. He shared a room with Tom when his was little and they use to fight like mad and kill each other. But they were still best mates and went to loads of parties together when they were older. He also has a cousin Gillian, who is like a sister to Kian and they grew up together and hung around the same crowd of friends when growing up. When he was 4, Kian entered his first Talent Show, which is called a feis in Irish. They're a big tradition there and it's where kids get to perform anything they want: poetry reading, singing, dancing, playing an instrument; you can do just about anything. At his first one he recited a poem called 'Whispers' at a hotel in Sligo. Kian won and got a little trophy That was when it all started and he went on to do music, acting, dancing and then bands. Kian is really musical and stated playing Piano when he was 9. His eldest brother Gavin was a part-time piano teacher so he gave him lessons and he took him up to grade four. But Kian wasn't really 100% into it because it was classical music and he thought that was pretty boring. He was really into Rock bands and stuff so he started playing Guitar and taught himself before he had proper lessons. By the time he was 14 he could play tunes by ear if he heard them on the radio, then he started learning chords and got involved in rock bands. Kian was surrounded by music throughout his childhood and he can play about 10 or 12 instruments now. If Kian wasn't playing music, he was always busy doing something else and he never had a spare night when he was growing up. During the week after school he would have jazz and tap dancing lessons, clarinet lessons, piano classes, guitar, hurling or basketball, then football training and drama classes. At the weekends he played footy matches and he also crammed in anything else that he could! From when Kian was 10 he dreamed of being a rock star. He used to love bands like Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden and Bon Jovi, and was always practising loud guitar solos and jamming with his mates. Him and 3 other guys formed a band, There first name was Scrod but they went through loads of other various names. They became Pyromania for a while then Hallucination. That was there last name before they split up. Kian started doing Musicals at the Hawkswell Theatre and at school. He did shows like The Pajama game, West side story, Annie get your gun and Oliver. Grease was the big show for him and that's were he got to know Shane and Mark. Shane didn't think much of the rock stuff that Kian was doing and Kian remembers thinking it was daft to try and do a 'boy band'. The big turning point came when he saw what Take That were doing. He use to love there songs and use to dream about being on stage like them. It really opened his mind and especially when Boyzone and Backstreet boys came along and he loved there style and that's when he thought 'A boy band? Yeah, That's for me' |
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