Winter Songs——梦幻的白色赞歌

Track listing
"Winter Song" (original version by Sara Bareilles) ♪
"Stay" (original version by Sugarland)
"Scars" (new song by Ronan Keating)
"Homeward Bound" (original version by Simon & Garfunkel)
"River" (original version by Joni Mitchell)
"It's Only Christmas" (new song by Ronan Keating)
"Little Drummer Boy" (Trad., includes backing vocals by Stephen Gately)
"Ring Them Bells" (original version by Bob Dylan)
"Caledonia" (original version by Dougie MacLean)
"Silent Night" (Trad.)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"(Trad.)
"I Won't Last A Day Without You" (original version by Paul Williams

BOYZONE“主将”之一

　从12岁时就开始写歌，和好友组过团，叫NAMESTE。曾经加入学校的合唱团，但被踢出来，因为合唱团的老师说他，不会唱歌。虽然是老么，3个哥哥一个姐姐，但他做个各式各样的工作。在鞋店打过工，进入BOYZONE时还在学校念书，刚成立时与团员晚上在校园和青少年常去的俱乐部表演，每天作二到三场的演出，但是在空闲时，还帮父亲修卡车，帮忙母亲的美发沙龙！一直的梦想是成为像TAKETHAT那么红的团员，直到成为BZ一员，成为主唱，他才真正找到自己心目中的理想事业。

1998年2月，BZ正在录制WHERE WE BELONG，他的母亲因乳癌去世。他几乎无法完成声音配唱的部分，RONAN写THIS IS WHEREI BELONG，唱出自己的成长心情。他后来设立Marie Keating Cancer AwarenessFund,致力乳癌防治。4月BZ的单曲ALL THAT I NEED直冲冠军。30日，RONAN与大他2岁的模特女友YVONNE在加勒比海的小岛结婚。同年底RONAN被权威偶像杂志读者选为“最佳衣着男士”、“流行王子”、“最想要的男人”！而他也从不受一般媒体重视的偶像派成为受到重视的艺人。

    虽然身为BZ的主唱，一直都是最受欢迎BZ成员，但RONAN早在几年前就想要发展个人音乐事业。1997年5月RONAN被选为“欧洲歌曲比赛”主持人，同年接下EMA（欧洲MTV颁奖礼）主持，1998年11月主持“世界小姐”，后来成为WESTLIFE的经纪人，但是他自己说这些都是附加的，最终目标是成为一位顶尖的词曲创作歌手。而直到1999年初，“新娘百分百”电影导演捧着一首歌请RONAN主唱，他才能实现长久以来的想望。

    2000年，BZ的成员以“单飞不解散”的形式开始各自的个人事业。RONAN的新单曲唱片“LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER”与7月19日正式发行，而他的首张个人专辑在7月30日推出！

Winter Songs is the sixth studio album and the first Christmas album by Irish pop singer and Boyzone front man Ronan Keating. It will be released by Polydor Records on November 16, 2009 in UK and Ireland. The first single, a cover of Grammy Award-winning American country music duo Sugarland's hit "Stay", will be released digitally on the same day.

Album information

The album Winter Songs follows the UK number one album Songs For My Motherreleased six months earlier, this time pulling together a set of 11songs that evoke special memories of winter and Christmas for Ronan Keating.

Winter Songs includes traditional christmas classics such as "Silent Night" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as well as modern festive classics like Joni Mitchell's River and Sugarland's "Stay". Songs originally performed by legendary artists like Simon & Garfunkel ("Homeward Bound") and Bob Dylan("Ring Them Bells") are also included on the album, which also includestwo brand new Ronan Keating songs "It's Only Christmas" and "Scars".

Like Keating's previous album, Winter Songs is produced by Stephen Lipson (Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox and Pet Shop Boys):

Ina press release about the album Ronan Keating said that "some of thesesongs conjure up some of my favorite Christmas memories".

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