Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn OBE is a New Zealand singersongwriter and musician. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the cofrontman for Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim Finn and others, and is now frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for theWorlds Collide project contributor Ed OBrien, also guitarist for Radiohead, has hailed Finn as popular musics most prolific writer of great songs.
Finn was born the youngest of four children to Dick and Mary Finn in Te Awamutu, New Zealand. His mother, a devout Catholic who moved to New Zealand from Ireland at the age of two, maintained a religious influence over the family. Speaking of Catholicism, Finn stated Its a great fertile ground for pulling lyrics out. lots of good stuff going on in there, good rituals and imagery and lots of guilt. Its a very potent combination. I think youre blessed, really, to be brought up with some kind of weird dogma like that. His father, the son of a farmer from Waikato, served in the army in Italy and became an accountant during World War II. His parents instilled an inspiring admiration of music in young Finn the family would often engage in singalongs around the family piano. In addition to music, Finn also enjoyed sports, particularly swimming, rugby, tennis, and biking.
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