Byran Mcfaddens Departure

  Byran McFadden was born on 12 April 1980 in Dublin,.    Throughout his younger years, he always had an interest in  singing, dancing and football. Along with his sister Susan, Byran attended the Billie Barry Stage School in Dublin which led him to doing stage and TV roles, including a role in the Irish TV show Finbar's Class, a comedy revolving around a group of student-swingers. In early 1998, he formed a pop-R&Bgroup with his friends, Tim and Darragh called Cartel, and performed live gigs in Dublin pubs.Then in 1998 he joined Westlife.

 Westlife released their eleventh UK number 1 single, "Unbreakable", in 2002.During the rumours of a split of Westlife, they released their first greatest hits album in November that same year Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 which went all the way to number 1 in the UK. The release was followed by the double a side single, "Tonight/Miss You Nights", which debuted at number 3 in the UK. At this time, Because Films Inspire... made a TV Documentary titled as "Wild Westlife" directed by Iain MacDonald and starred by the group itself. It reveals Westlifes musical life on a daily basis and when on tour.

 In 2003, Westlife went on to their third world tour, The Greatest Hits Tour shrugging off rumours of a split.
In September 2003, Westlife released "Hey Whatever", which peaked at number 4 on the UK Charts. Their fourth studio album, Turnaround, was then released in November, earning the group another UK number 1 album. "Mandy", a cover of the Barry Manilow hit, was released in November 2003. Their version won them their third Record of the Year award in under five years. Their version of Mandy is also considered as the highest single leaper to the top (it went from number 200 to number 1) in the UK music history.This left Westlife in pure amazement. "Obvious" was released as the final single from the album, charting at number 3.Byran had been saying for while now that he wanted to quit Westlife to be with his family, but Westlife never took him seriously as he was oftain drunk or just after a fight with one of the guys when he would say this.

 On 9 March 2004, just three weeks prior to embarking on their fourth world tour, Bryan suddendly left the group to spend more time with his family and work on solo projects.This devastated the other members leaving them unsure of what was left of Westlife. On that day, a press conference was held where all the group's members were present and gave emotional individual speeches. Bryan's final public performance as part of Westlife was at Newcastle Upon Tyne's Powerhouse nightclub on 27 February 2004.Hundreds of fans gatered outside this event also devasted about Byrans decision to leave.

Byran subsequently began a solo career, deciding to revert the spelling of his first name back to its original 'Brian', he released his first solo single, "Real To Me" which entered the UK chart at number 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRDjLACuVA&ob=av2e.

Soon after, he released his first solo album, "Irish Son" under Sony Music. McFadden co-wrote most of the songs on the album with Guy Chambers, best known for his successful collaboration with Robbie Williams and INXS.

 The third single "Almost Here", a duet with Australian singer Delta Goodrem became McFadden's second Number 1 single in Ireland as a solo artist and his first in Australia,gaining a platinum accreditation there.The fourth and final single, "Demons" peaked within the top 30 on the charts in Ireland and the UK. McFadden continued writing songs for artists such as, Il Divo and Girls Aloud, as well as co-writing the theme song "Together We Are One" for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. That same year, McFadden collaborated with American singer on the song, "Everybody's Somebody"