Colm Keegan
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Celtic Thunder Cruise 2014
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| Birth name | Colm Joseph Keegan |
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2 August 1989 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Years active | 2011-present |
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Colm Keegan (born 2 August 1989) is a singer, songwriter and teacher from Dublin, Ireland. He is currently a principal singer with Irish music group, Celtic Thunder, and has previously performed with the likes of Celtic Woman, The Priests, and Irish tenor Peter Corry. He released his first solo album "I'll Never Be Alone" in the fall of 2016.
He got married to his Celtic Thunder co-member Laura Durrant on July 26th, and had a baby boy in February of 2017.
Coming from a family of 4 brothers, all singers, and a Dad whose family was brought up singing, playing piano and guitar, Colm's musicality was engrained deep in his heritage.
During his early school days, Colm studied under vocal coach Ken Shellard, and won several highly acclaimed awards at the Dublin Feis Ceoil singing competition. During this time he was also a lead soloist with the Palestrina Choir under the direction of Ite O'Donovan. Some venue highlights from this time include performances at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral, New York's St Patrick's Cathedral and St Peter's Basilica in Rome where the Pope was in attendance, along with regular recitals at Dublin's National Concert Hall.
Colm later joined the Piccolo Lasso Choir and Habemus Chamber Choir, with whom he recorded several CDs, partook in an extensive European tour and performed as a lead soloist in Spain, Ireland, and The Czech Republic.
In 2005, Colm's oldest brother John established a chamber choir consisting of former Scholarship singers from University College Dublin and singers from Dublin's Palestrina Choir, giving them the name Habemus Chamber Choir. The word Habemus stems from the Latin "we have".
This was Colm's return to choral music for the first time since his voice had broken. The Chamber group has won the recognition of many agents around Ireland, Radio and TV Stations, as well as having the opportunity to perform in numerous concerts not just nationwide, but internationally as well. Habemus performed across Europe, including trips to Barcelona and Prague all before Colm had turned 17.
Today, the a cappella musical group consists of 16 highly talented and energetic singers selected from a variety of Dublin-based chamber choirs, choral foundations and university scholarship programmes. The primary focus for the choir is to utilize its musical talents to help promote awareness through charity fundraising concerts. Since its foundation, Habemus have raised in excess of 20,000 euro for almost a dozen local and international charities and continue to have the desire to help others through music.
Upon Colm's return to singing, it didn't take long for Music to come to the fore of everything Colm did. He had his first stage experience, playing the lead role of Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls before being offered a scholarship opportunity for singing in University College Dublin. Colm entered UCD with a singing scholarship under the direction of Mr. Desmond Early and sang with UCD's Choral Scholars.
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