Ronan Keating on family & career

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Irish singer-songwriter/actor Ronan Keating talks about life as a family man and his new movie. Read about it here: http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/film/ronan-keating-voice-of-the-voiceless-1.948802. See more at http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Goddess is a romantic comedy which is going to be coming out of Cannes next year and I

00:07play the husband of this lady who, I buy her a webcam because I'm travelling to the Antarctic,

00:13I'm a marine biologist and we don't speak on the webcam so she starts to sing down the

00:17webcam in her kitchen.

00:19So she becomes a big star around the world, women love her and she travels off and I have

00:24to come home and mind the children but she leaves the webcam on so they see me burning

00:28the house down practically trying to run around after the children and become a real

00:33dad and it's very funny.

00:34Twenty years ago we started Boyzone and it's been a rollercoaster ever since, it's been

00:38crazy.

00:39We parted ways in 1999 at the end and came back together five years ago and we've had

00:43a rocky road, you know Stephen passed away two years ago and that was very tough.

00:47I've had a solo career, I've been lucky enough to have a solo career and it's been very fruitful

00:52for me.

00:53I'm making a new solo album at the moment so I'll continue to make records and I'm passionate

00:57about it and Boyzone maybe, we'll be 20 years together in 2013 so I think we'll have an

01:02anniversary album then.

01:04Last century with progress, so no there's still a life for boy bands, you just have

01:10to evolve, you have to change, become something new.

01:14The word boy band is a very thin kind of line, I mean you can evolve into other things.

01:19I've had kind of three years of a break from making a studio album, I did an album with

01:24Burt Bacharach and I did an album with an orchestra, Winter Songs and so on, so I took

01:29a break from actually studio recordings, new songs but now I'm ready to make a new album

01:34so it's kind of been a bit of a strange time for me the last three years but now I'm ready

01:38to make a record, I'm ready in my head and my heart.

01:40It's a brand new studio album, it'll be ten new songs and I'm kind of working on a kind

01:45of a folk feel at the moment, it's quite folky but that can change, but it's got a folk feel

01:49at the moment which I like, storyteller kind of folk feel.

01:52A day in my life at the moment, well I've just been in Australia for three months on

01:55X Factor so I just got back and it's been at home with my children as much as I can,

02:00my wife and kids in Dublin and a very, very average day, very normal, school runs and

02:06grocery store and feed the dogs and walk the dogs.

02:09I'm Ronan Keating and you're watching GNTV.

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