Brian Dunphy (born 17 June 1974,

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...

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) is an

Irish folk Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there we ...

singer and son of the

showband The Irish showband was a dance band format popular in Ireland from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. The showband was based on the internationally popular six- or seven-piece dance band. The band's basic repertoire included standard dance numbers and ...

singer

Sean Dunphy Sean Dunphy (30 November 1937 – 17 May 2011) was an Irish singer who represented Ireland at the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, achieving second place with " If I Could Choose". He was also the first Irish singer to record in Nashville. Career ...

, who represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. As a performer and member of the Irish folk band

The High Kings The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008. The band consists of Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and Paul O'Brien. As of 2020, the group had released five studio albums, four live albums, and two live DVDs, a ...

, Brian Dunphy has toured the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. He got his start as the lead singer in ''Riverdance: The Show'', which ran on

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. He also joined the Three Irish Tenors, who toured throughout the United States, and was also part of the band Druid. He released a solo album entitled ''Timeless'' in 2005. Dunphy later became a member of the four-person Irish folk band The High Kings (2008–present), along with

Finbarr Clancy Finbarr Clancy (born 5 March 1970) is an Irish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career he performed with The Clancy Brothers. He later became a member of the group The High Kings. Birth and family Finbarr Clancy was the onl ...

, Darren Holden and

Martin Furey The High Kings is an Irish folk group formed in Dublin in 2008. The band consists of Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Darren Holden, and Paul O'Brien. As of 2020, the group had released five studio albums, four live albums, and two live DVDs, ...

. The High Kings have released six albums and toured in the United States, Europe and Australia. Dunphy typically plays the

bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or oth ...

and the guitar in the group.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunphy, Brian 1974 births Living people Irish folk singers Musicians from Dublin (city) Irish male guitarists 21st-century Irish male singers 21st-century guitarists