Ronan Keating

Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. He debuted in 1994, alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the lead singer of Irish group Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999 and has spawned nine albums. He gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing at All" was featured in the film Notting Hill and peaked at number one in several countries. As a solo artist, he has sold over 20 million records worldwide alongside the 25 million records with Boyzone and in Australia, he is best known as a judge on The X Factor. Keating is active in charity work and has been a charity campaigner for the Marie Keating Foundation, which raises awareness for breast cancer and is named after his mother, who died from the disease in 1998. At the age of 21 he married Yvonne Connolly after a brief two month romance. They had three children together: Jack Keating (1999), Marie Keating (2001) and Ali Keating (2005). In 2010 the couple separated and after 18 months Ronan started dating Australian TV Producer/Director, Storm Uechtritz in March 2012. After three years together Ronan proposed to Storm during a holiday in Thailand in March 2015. They were married in Scotland on the 17th August, the same year with his three children acting as best man, bridesmaid and flower girl.