Bill Whelan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bill Whelan

Irish composer

Date of Birth: 22-May-1950

Place of Birth: Limerick, Munster, Ireland

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bill Whelan, (born 22 May 1950 in Limerick, Ireland) is an Irish composer and musician.
He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
The result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and Celtic music and also won him a Grammy.
It was released as a single in the UK in 1994, credited to "Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra".
It reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks.
The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995. Whelan has also composed a symphonic suite version of Riverdance, with its premiere performed by the Ulster Orchestra on BBC Radio 3 in August 2014.