Stephen Gately

Stephen Patrick David Gately was an Irish pop singersongwriter actor childrens writer and dancer who with Ronan Keating was colead singer of the pop group Boyzone All of Boyzones studio albums during Gatelys lifetime hit number one in the United Kingdom their third being their most successful internationally With Boyzone Gately had a recordbreaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart He performed for millions of fans globally He released a solo album in 2000 after the groups initial breakup which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles including the top three hit New Beginning Gately went on to appear variously in stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing songs to various projects In 2008 he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings