Born in Argentina, on October 15th 1948, Christopher
John Davison
(Chris De Burgh) s the son of a Charles
Davison and
Maeve Emily de Burgh, a British diplomat and
an Irish
secretary, and grew up in Malta,
Nigeria and Zaire.
However, when he was twelve, his grandfather,
in Ireland, and the family settled
there. His parents converted
the castle into a hotel and Chris
performed to the guests while
they were having dinner, plus he and
his brother helped with the
guest's bags, and, in his own words..."spilled the soup..."While
at university, Chris played his music
in hairdressers and hamburger
restaurants but in 1974 he finally got his
first recording contract
with A & M records. He released
his debut album
Far Beyond These Castle Walls in 1975 and
a single, Turning Round
went, in the most unlikely of places
Brazil, to number one having
sold over half a million copies and
remaining at number one for 17
weeks.It was called Flying, because
it happens to be the first word
of the first verse, and is easier
to say, in Portugese.His classic
single The Lady In Red has amassed
worldwide sales of over eight
million and is easily the best known
of all his hits, ensuring great
popularity and winning him six annual awards
from the
Association of Composers and Publishers. And
he continues to
travel the world performing sell out
tours in all corners of the globe.
These are the landscapes of , this musician, this storyteller,
Chris de Burgh. We have loved the man since
hearing his song
'Just Another Poor Boy' and
have wandered through the succeeding
landscapes that have been conjured
up for us, by his songs. On
this site, we're going to try
and find some of those landscapes...the
landscapes of war and peace, of love
and parting, of life and death,
but most of all, of
people and place and time. Come along on the
journey, and through place and time,
once more......
