Keith Arnold Jacques Duffy (born 2 June 1966) is an Irish

bass guitarist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low bra ...

, best known for his long-standing support role in the

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band

The Corrs The Corrs are an Irish family band consisting of siblings Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, ukulele), Sharon (violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, v ...

. Duffy was born in

Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...

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. From 1990, he played bass with Commitments star

Andrew Strong Andrew Strong (born 14 November 1973) is an Irish singer and the son of Irish musician and singing coach Robert (Rob) Strong. He grew up in Shandon Park, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, (where his father lived while performing with showba ...

for four years and then toured with The Commitments Band for a year, before getting a call from Corrs manager

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in 1995. He has accompanied The Corrs on all of their tours ever since and played on many of their studio recordings. He also recorded bass on

Bernard Fanning Bernard Joseph Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989. Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, Fanning ...

's (of

Powderfinger Powderfinger were an Australian Rock music, rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010, the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins ...

) solo album '' Tea & Sympathy'' in 2006.

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Living people Irish male bass guitarists The Corrs members 1966 births People from Drogheda Musicians from County Louth 20th-century Irish bass guitarists 21st-century Irish bass guitarists {{ireland-musician-stub