Chris De Burgh Bio, Age,Wife, Daughter, Songs, Net Worth and Tour

Chris De Burgh Biography

Christopher John Davison famously known as Chris de Burgh is a British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. De Burgh is famously known for his major hit “The lady in Red”.

He began as an art-rock performer but subsequently started writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hits in the UK and two in the US.

Chris De Burgh Age

Chris De Burgh was born on 15 October 1948 in Venado Tuerto, Argentina. He was born under the birth sign of Libra. He celebrates his birthday in the month of October on date 15th every year.

Chris De Burgh Family

His parents are Colonel Charles John Davison, MBE, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily de Burgh, an Irish secretary.De Burgh’s maternal grandfather was Sir Eric de Burgh, a British Army officer who had been Chief of the General Staff in India during the Second World War. He took his mother’s name, “de Burgh” when he began performing.

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Chris de Burgh’s father had substantial farming interests, and Chris spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria, and Zaire, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his diplomatic and engineering work.

The Davisons finally settled in Bargy Castle, County Wexford, Ireland, which was somewhat dilapidated at the time. It was a twelfth-century castle that Eric de Burgh bought in the 1960s. He converted it into a hotel, and the young Chris sang for the guests there.

After attending Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England, de Burgh went on to graduate from Trinity College, Dublin, with a Master of Arts degree in French, English, and History.

Chris De Burgh Wife

Chris de Burgh has been married to his wife Diane since 1977 and lives in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, in Ireland, having moved there from Dalkey, Dublin, in 1997.They have two sons, Hubie and Michael, and a daughter, His second cousin, Danny Kinahan of Castle Upton, served as Member of Parliament for South Antrim between 2015 and 2017.

Chris De Burgh Daughter

Rosanna Diane Davison born 17 April 1984 is an actress, singer, writer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2003 for Ireland. In August 2003, she entered the Miss Ireland finals in Dublin, and winning the competition, she found herself competing for the title of Miss World. December 2003 saw Davison, along with 106 other contestants, compete in the Miss World competition in Sanya, China.

Rosanna went on to win the crown and is the first Irish entrant ever to win the Miss World title since it started in 1951. During Davison’s reign, she traveled to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, and Sri Lanka.

She is signed to Storm Model Management in the UK. In February 2012, she came second in a poll to find Ireland’s most desirable Valentines. From October 2013, she started presenting slots on LFC TV, the dedicated television channel for Liverpool F.C.

Chris De Burgh Affairs

In 1994 he was found to have had an affair with his children’s 19-year-old Irish nanny, Maresa Morgan, who was assisting the family while de Burgh’s wife Diane was recuperating in the hospital from a broken neck suffered during a horse-riding accident. De Burgh later said he felt very guilty about the affair and subsequently reconciled with his wife.

Chris De Burgh Net Worth

Chris de Burgh’s net worth: Chris de Burgh is a British-Irish singer-songwriter who has a net worth of $50 million. In 2011 bottles from de Burgh’s vintage wine cellar sold for over $500,000, including a world record set for a magnum collection of postwar vintages.

Chris De Burgh Music

Chris de Burgh signed his first contract with A&M Records in 1974, and supported Supertramp on their Crime of the Century tour, building himself a small fan base. His début album, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues. It failed to chart upon its release in late 1974.

A few months later, he released a single called “Turning Round” from the album, released outside the UK and Ireland as “Flying”. It failed to make an impression in the UK, but it stayed on top of the Brazilian charts for 17 weeks.

This became a familiar pattern for the singer/songwriter, as every one of his 1970s albums failed to chart in the UK or US while they racked up big sales in continental European and South American countries.

Chris De Burgh Lady In Red

“The Lady in Red” is a song by British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh. It was released in June 1986 as the second single from the album Into the Light. The song was responsible for introducing de Burgh’s music to a mainstream audience worldwide.

The song was written in reference to his wife Diane and was released on the album Into the Light. On the British TV series This Is Your Life, de Burgh said that the song was inspired by the memory of when he first saw Diane,

and how men so often cannot even remember what their wives were wearing when they first met. The song was a massive hit across the world, quickly becoming de Burgh’s best-selling single his signature song, transforming him from a cult artist into a household name in many countries.

It reached the number one position in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Norway and the Flanders region of Belgium. It also reached number three in the United States during the spring of 1987. The song also propelled its parent album Into The Light to the number two position in the United Kingdom and success in other markets. The song was de Burgh’s third UK hit single and the first to reach the top 40.

Chris De Burgh Songs

♦ Broken Wings
♦ Brother John
♦ By My Side
♦ Carry Me (Like A Fire In Your Heart)

♦ Carry On
♦ Crusader
♦ Crying And Laughing
♦ Diamond In The Dark

♦ Discovery
♦ Don’t Look Back
♦ Don’t Pay The Ferryman
♦ Eastern Wind

♦ Every Drop Of Rain
♦ Fatal Hesitation
♦ Fire On The Water
♦ Five Past Dreams

♦ Flying Home
♦ Forevermore
♦ Girl
♦ Goodnight

♦ Guilty Secret
♦ Heart Of Darkness
♦ Here For You
♦ Here Is Your Paradise

♦ High On Emotion
♦Hold On
♦I Had The Love In My Eyes
♦ I See You Everywhere

♦ I Want It (and I Want It Now!)
♦ I Will
♦ I’m Counting On You
♦ I’m Going Home

♦ I’m Not Crying Over You
♦I’m Not Scared Anymore
♦If Beds Could Talk
♦If You Really Love Her Let Her Go

Chris De Burgh Spanish Train

Spanish Train and Other Stories is the second album by Chris de Burgh, released by A&M Records in 1975. Releases in some markets, like in North America, used different cover art than those in Europe.Rather than the simple white-on-black text of the European releases, the North American releases depicted an image of a train speeding through an evening sky.

The song was deemed blasphemous in South Africa, and a ban was ordered. A&M records sued to get the ban overturned – the suit was eventually successful. However, while the suit was in progress, A&M released the album under the title “Lonely Sky and Other Stories” (without “Spanish Train”).

This album is considered a collector’s item today – copies are extremely rare. Perversely, the ban only applied to the LP record, so the cassette issue of Spanish Train was always freely available.

Chris De Burgh 1997- 2019

In 1997 de Burgh composed a song entitled “There’s a New Star Up in Heaven Tonight”, dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales. The song was released as a 100-copy limited edition and included on the compilation The Ultimate Collection 2000 and Now and Then 2009.

In 2007 a concert in Tehran was planned for mid-2008, together with local band Arian, which would have made Chris de Burgh the first western pop singer to perform in Iran since the 1979 revolution. However, the concert never went ahead because he had not been given permission by the Iranian authorities to perform in the country.

He was the first Western act to play in Lebanon after the Lebanese Civil WarOn 25 June 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Chris de Burgh among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire

Chris De Burgh Critics

During the 1970s de Burgh received mainly positive feedback from the music press, as he attempted to build his career. However, since the release of “The Lady in Red”, in 1986, both the music and news media have become significantly more negative towards him, both personally and professionally.

De Burgh has pursued and won 16 defamation actions. The Irish Independent said he has always been a bit prickly about criticism. Peter Crawley. A theatre reviewer at The Irish Times, received a directed response from de Burgh when he wrote a less than sympathetic review of de Burgh’s show in Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre in September 2009.

Crawley wrote: “He departs the stage for ‘Lady in Red’, invading boxes and draping himself over audience members Certain toes will never uncurl after this experience, but it is almost admirable how unaltered de Burgh has remained by the flow of time.”

In a lengthy, much-publicized reply to the critic, de Burgh made his feelings known, particularly in the postscript: We were wondering by way of explanation and, as you seem to portray yourself as a bitter and unfulfilled man.

AllMusic critic Greg Prato has stated: “Depending on who you ask, Chris de Burgh either specializes in pretentious, bombastic art-rock disguised as pop or is a master of penning soaring and majestic compositions.

“The BBC has said of de Burgh: “To his millions of fans, Chris de Burgh is the ultimate romantic singer. But to many others, he’s a figure of fun.” When the staff of Melody Maker was putting together a lampoon edition of new art and music magazine, they chose de Burgh for the cover.

 His signature song, “The Lady in Red”, has been repeatedly voted one of the public’s most disliked songs. In 2006, Neil Norman, writing for The Independent, described de Burgh as “the world’s naffest balladeer”.

In his favor, Mike DeGagne, writing for AllMusic, has acclaimed de Burgh as “a genuine master of the soft ballad” and “one of the finest mood-invoking artists ever”.

Chris De Burgh Twitter

This shit is heartbreaking. You can clearly see the hurt in her eyes and watch these racist ass bitches use this against her too. LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE!! #WeLoveYouMeghan https://t.co/jzpYoQYELV

— Amanda Rodriguez (@anrodrig12) October 18, 2019