Brian Kennedy

Person · Open Library

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Northern Ireland

Active from

1966-10-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

28,457

Total plays

201,429

Brian Kennedy (born Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy on 12 October 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter and author from Belfast. A protege of Van Morrison, Kennedy has a gentle voice that he puts it to good use in his many ballads. He represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. As a singer with perfect pitch, he has been described as having ‘the voice which charms angels’. His first album was 'The Great War of Words' followed by 'A Better Man' in 1996 which gained quadruple platinum

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Particle swarm optimization

   · cited 40,962x

2. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,942x

3. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

   · 1991 · cited 26,521x

4. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,399x

5. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,973x

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Brian

Family name

Kennedy

Gender

male

Citizenship

Republic of Ireland

Place of birth

Belfast

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Participant in

Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Field of work

singing

Genre

soul

Instrument

voice

Record label

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.

Official website

www.briankennedy.co.uk

Image

Brian Kennedy, 2018 (cropped).jpg

Voice type

tenor

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