Shane Steven Filan

Shane Filan was born on July 5th, 1979. He's the lead singer of an Irish pop band called Westlife. Shane is one of the five original Westlife members, along with other current members Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Nicky Byrne and former member Brian McFadden. Here is a photo of him singing at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert on 2009.

Shane was born on July 5, 1979 to Peter and Mae Filan, and grew up in Sligo, a busy commercial town in the northeast of Ireland. The youngest of seven children, he has three brothers and three sisters, Finbarr, Peter Jr, Yvonne, Liam, Denise and Mairead. His parents owned a diner in Sligo named Carlton Cafe located on Castle Street and Shane used to work there as a waiter from an early age.

He attended Summerhill College, a Catholic school, along with Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. All three of them participated in a school production of Grease when they were about 12. I bet they were damn cute! Lol, I'll try to get my hands on those pictures.

Anyway, next is 'bout his personal life. Shane married his childhood sweetheart, Gillian Walsh on Sunday December 28, 2003at Ballintubber Abbey, followed by a reception at Ashford Castle, Ireland. I wish I was there, but oh well. Gillian gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Nicole Rose, at Sligo General Hospital on 23 July 2005. They soon had a second child, a son, Patrick Michael, was born at Sligo General Hospital on September 15, 2008. On 5 July 2009, Shane annouced that he was having a third child with Gillian and this was none other than a burst of joy from his fans, including me. The third child was named after his boyband father, Shane Peter Filan. He was born at 09:34 PM on Friday January 22nd, 2010.