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| Chris de Burgh | |||
| Christopher J. Davison alias Chris de Burgh, was born in Argentina the 15 of October 1948. Chris is the son of British parents. He is the son of Charles Davison, a British diplomat, and an Irish secretary, Maeve Emily de Burgh. His childhood was rich in travel and experience due to his fathers’ diplomatic job. He grew up in different countries, such as Malta, Nigeria and Zaire. When he was 12 years old the family Davison moved to Emerald Isle, Ireland. Chris still lives there, with his wife Diane and their three children, Rosanna, Hubie, and Michael.
In 1971, Chris moved to London for making a music career there. He was singing in a hamburger restaurant and a hair dresser's shop. He was looking for a job and he got a friend's offer to sing in a recently opened restaurant in Dublin, called ‘Captain Americas’. He played background music for the eating guests. In 1974 he signed a deal with A&M Records and supported Supertramp in their “Crime of the Century’ tour. During this time, he changed his stage name to Chris de Burgh. And in 1975, he was ready to release his first album ‘Far Beyond These Castle Walls...’. His first international success happened in 1975 with song ‘Turning Round’, renamed into ‘Flying’ and it remained number 1 in Brazil for more than 17 weeks. It sold over half a Million times. His next album was ‘Spanish Train & Other Stories’ again has one track ‘A Spaceman Came Travelling’ that became a continuing hit, but this time in UK, as a Christmas radio hit. But a real success from that album is the track ‘Patricia The Stripper’, still requested by the audience in his concerts. In 1984, Chris released his 8th album with ‘Man On The Line’, including one of his most famous songs ‘High On Emotion’. It reached number 1 in ten European countries. Since that time in most concerts he performs this song. In 1986, he released the album ‘Into the Light’, which included ‘The Lady In Red’. It became a worldwide hit and Chris received gold and platinum albums in many different countries. ‘The Lady In Red’ reached number 1 in the UK and 24 other countries, world wide, and also number 2 in the US. ‘Into the light’ earned platinum in Norway, South Africa and Greece, double platinum in Swiss and England, three times platinum in Ireland and Canada. It received gold in the USA, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium as well. This album also contains the track ‘Say Goodbye To It All’, which was continuing the story of ‘Borderline’ on ‘the Getaway’ album from 1982. His next album, Flying Colours, released in 1988. 'Flying Colours', which contains the song ‘Missing You’, became his biggest selling album so far.
Chris has repeatedly had sold out tours in many countries around the world, such as United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Far East. He released the album ‘Timing Is Everything’ in 2002 with 11 new tracks. He wanted to have a fun record with this record and it is not a spiritual record to him. But still some songs like ‘There’s Room In This Heart Tonight’ is a deep record. This Album's biggest hit is ‘Lebanese Night’, which has reached number 1 in both English and Arabic music chart, in Lebanon and so many other countries. | ||
History Chris de Burgh - Biography
In 1960, his father bought an old castle ‘Bargy Castle’, which originally was built in the 12th century. After Davisons renovated the castle, they opened it up as a half year holidays hotel for families. Chris made his firsts concerts in this castle and he used to play and sing for the guests in the evenings. He learned to play the guitar by the ‘Learning by doing’ method. He studied English and French at the famous Trinity College in Dublin. This gave him ideas for his own lyrics. He began writing pop songs while studying at Trinity College in Dublin. 
During 28 years Chris de Burgh has been awarded with more than 200 gold and platinum sales awards. Also some Royalty and world leaders have joined to his fans. He has so many fans in all around Europe (Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, ...), Asia (Iran, Japan, Lebanon, …) , South America (Argentina, Brazil, …), and North America (Canada).
