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Biography
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Biography
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Biography
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Biography
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Reg
Keating
Coming
late in life to music, he initially released his songs
and recordings under obscure names. Secret Lives
was his first ventured into disco music in 1986. He
next surfaced as The Anorak Adventure and had
a #.2 chart success with an album of his own songs entitled
Scoring in the USA. He followed that with a series
of gold and silver new age albums under the name New
Ireland Orchestra. In Germany, he has sold 40,000
albums as the New Avalon Sound Orchestra. He next formed
DAGDA with co-producer
Phillip O'Reilly and released four albums Celtic
Trance and Hibernia,
Underworld and Sleeping
with the Gods of Love. His
first release under his own name was Celtic
Lullaby in 1998. He followed that in 2000 with
Mystical Ireland - Therapy
and Mystical Ireland -
Grooves. His
most recent releases are Cool
Classical and Chill
Classical - contemporary chillout arrangements
of best loved works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
Grieg, Schubert, Chopin and Tchaikovsky.
A
successful songwriter, his songs are found on many compilations
around the world in such company as the Corrs, Maire
Brennan, Enigma, Enya, Mike Oldfield, Deep Forest, Fleetwood
Mac, Cappercaille, Sting, Moby and Clannad . His productions
and compositions feature on film score compilations
with Ennio Morricone, Percy Faith, Henry Mancini and
The John Barry Orchestra. In 1994 he had a top 10 chart
success with Christmastime
is here again. That same year he also had a
# 2 chart success with his album of football songs.
His song Hold
me now was the theme song for Blue Dragon
award winning film Pisces - Woman in Love which also
features his songs White
Velvet, Sometimes
and Ashley's Game. His Dagda track Barbarian
featured in Oscar winning film Into the arms of strangers.
Among those to record his songs are Joe Dolan,
Tom Donovan, Foster and Allen, Sonny Knowles
and Rob Strong.
In 1996 he wrote a best selling series of books for
children which are now into their 6th reprint with sales
in Ireland exceeding 200,000 copies.
