Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison on 15 October 1948 - Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Irish / British musician and songwriter. He is the son of a British diplomat and an Irish secretary. Few artists can lay claim to international success spanning three decades but, beginning with his very first release, Chris de Burgh has achieved precisely that. The foundations for a remarkable and durable career were laid back in 1975 with the release of Chris's debut album, 'Far Beyond These Castle Walls', featuring a single, 'Flying', which spent 17 weeks at No. ...show more

Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison on 15 October 1948 - Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Irish / British musician and songwriter. He is the son of a British diplomat and an Irish secretary. Few artists can lay claim to international success spanning three decades but, beginning with his very first release, Chris de Burgh has achieved precisely that. The foundations for a remarkable and durable career were laid back in 1975 with the release of Chris's debut album, 'Far Beyond These Castle Walls', featuring a single, 'Flying', which spent 17 weeks at No.

1 in Brazil. Subsequent records, almost in turn, continued to steadily draw in audiences around the world; Scandinavia was early to embrace the vivid story-telling that is Chris's unique talent, South Africa quickly tuned in to his power as a live performer, North America even demanded its own specially compiled 'greatest hits' collection, 'Best Moves'. In the United States, meanwhile, relentless touring with his management stablemates Supertramp was beginning to establish Chris as a gritty, charismatic stage presence. Indeed, by 1980, Chris's global profile had already mushroomed to the point where that year's album, 'Eastern Wind', became one of the biggest-selling albums of all time in Norway.

A year later, its follow-up, 'Man On The Line', was a Top 30 album in the UK, the US and 20 other countries, while producing the single 'High On Emotion', which went to No. 1 in ten European countries. In many respects, it was this album that opened the door to the enormous success which was to follow and scale new heights with the arrival of Chris's 1986 album 'Into The Light'. Chris, by his own estimation, had shrewdly perceived this record to be one which could place him fully centre stage as an artist and, indeed, it featured the song which finally established him as a known singer-songwriter around the world. ...show less