And then I was also a former Irish dancer as well, so that gave me a traditional background as well. It was very diverse, how I grew up and what I listened to. Dominic: That's a good one. I can't ever remember saying I wanted to be a professional singer. That is the gospel truth. I've always loved singing and I've always gone down paths. I always enjoyed music and I was always participating in different forms of music, even with local productions in the town and on an amateur basis as well.
This is the path I was led down. A funny thing about my family, I've got four sisters and one brother. They were all sent to music classes, I was sent to Irish dancing and I'm the one that made a career in music.
Now is that not talking about some sort of a path that I was led down? That's the way I look at it. Dominic: I've always loved country music, but again, I come from a family that were very diverse from my traditional background. There was the background of the showband era, my mother, God rest her, she would have been very much into we'll call it the John McCormacks or the Frank Pattersons of Ireland, which would have been very much that classical tenor approach.
So you can imagine what the music was like in my home. I think it was more to do with the company I kept when I was growing up and the boys that I ran about with and their love for the music, so it has been infused. At the same time, if you look at my iPod today, I have something like odd songs, which you can never get a chance to listen to, but I promise you, everything's there; there's country music, classical music, traditional music.
There's everything in it, so that still stays with me. Tony: Are you one of these singers who are always thinking, 'I've got to get this song on to the next album'? Do you always have a store, like a squirrel storing its nuts, storing away songs for the next one? I get an opportunity to do a lot of work and one thing that I do is that I meet the audience afterwards and, you know, get my photographs signed, autographs signed and the albums, or whatever. But in conversation your audience like to participate as well.
So every now and again I'll get a suggestion for a song. I think maybe at times they think we're not listening, but I can go back to my dressing room and get a bit of paper and jot it down and stick it in my back pocket or put it in my bag or whatever. This album has actually come from that background because I'd built up a list of songs that people had suggested to me.
Now, in fairness, a lot of the songs that we've ended up with I've actually loved as well myself, but that's really how it was built. Tony: You have some songs on the album which are specifically Christian.
You've got songs which basically are just addressing the human condition and speaking words of encouragement. It's a pretty wide selection.
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Comment Bookmark Tell a friend Print version. Reader Comments Posted by Brenda Elkington in South Kempsey on Aug 13 I would love to get some of his cd one really love to get is gospel as I'm a volunteer radio presenter my listeners keep asking to hear him sing some.
Posted by ian susan gilbert in bathgate scotland on Feb 16 I think he is fantastic we go to all his shows when we can [reply] [report abuse]. After being a fan of his for years, what a pleasure to see him live.
The show was outstanding, the choice of songs were fantastic. As a bonus to the night I got to meet him after the show and had my photo taken with him. A true gent who respects his fans.
Well done Dominic. Dominic will not be spending this Christmas with her and their sons Lee, Colm, Barry and Jonathan in the family's sprawling luxury home outside Omagh. Clean-cut Dominic, who performs around shows a year, fell for his childhood sweetheart Louise in his teens and the couple married in when he was just years-old. But earlier this year we exclusively revealed that love rat Kirwan 48 was having a steamy affair with a leggy blonde 15 years his junior.
We published details of a letter sexy English fan Helen Wall 33 had sent the Co Tyrone crooner saying she wanted to be with him always. I think about you and I get butterflies. I have never got so close to someone so quickly and allowed it to happen so easily I love being close to you You have reminded me of so many feelings I had forgotten. Friends of Louise told Sunday Life she is furious at the pain Dominic's behaviour has caused her and the rest of the family.
Despite his many promises that he had ended his fling with his lovestruck super-fan, Louise is refusing to believe him and his attempts to win her back have failed. Louise revealed to pals that Dominic has completely changed since meeting divorced mum-of-one Helen.
The angry mum-of-four is hoping will bring her better luck after the heartache of the past year. Louise first discovered that Dominic was having an affair last Christmas and just weeks later she spoke to Sunday Life of her shock. The following weekend the couple showed a united public front when Louise travelled to Castleblayney where Dominic was playing his first Irish concert since news of his seedy affair broke.
In March Dominic finally broke his silence about his steamy liaison with Helen when quizzed by an English journalist about our story. Dominic added that he doesn't mind that his army of devoted fans often stay in the same hotels. I'm an easygoing kind of guy. Besides, they're always respectful.
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