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| - 7_Worlds_Collide
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- New Zealand expatriates in the United States
- 1958 births
- Crowded House members
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| - For the jazz composer/arranger, please use [a2465132]Neil Finn (born May 27, 1958, Te Awamutu, New Zealand) is a New Zealand singer and songwriter and one of New Zealand's foremost musicians. He joined his brother [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/247008-Tim-Finn]Tim's[/url] band [a109320] in April 1977 and assumed lead responsibility when Tim left in June 1984. After Split Enz broke up in 1984 he formed The Mullanes later known as [a257793]. When Crowded House disbanded in 1996, he launched a solo career as well as rejoining with his brother Tim to release material as [a377361]. They were both awarded an OBE in 1993 for services to New Zealand music. Married to [a842516] and father of [a592970] and [a842515].
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| - Neil Mullane Finn OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer/songwriter and musician. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman 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 the 7 Worlds Collide project; contributor Ed O'Brien, also guitarist for Radiohead, has hailed Finn as popular music's %22most prolific writer of great songs%22.Finn rose to prominence in the late 1970s with Split Enz and wrote the successful songs %22One Step Ahead%22, %22History Never Repeats%22, %22I Got You%22 and %22Message to My Girl%22, among others. Finn rose from prominence to international fame after Split Enz broke up in 1984. While his brother Tim Finn left for England, Neil was the founder of Crowded House with Split Enz's final drummer Paul Hester in 1985. The group achieved international success in 1987 when they released the single %22Don't Dream It's Over%22, written by Neil Finn.He ended Crowded House in 1996 to embark upon what was to become a moderately successful solo career, and has released two albums with his brother Tim under the title the Finn Brothers. In 2006, following the death of Hester, Finn reformed Crowded House (adding Beck's former drummer Matt Sherrod) and released their first studio album in over 13 years, Time on Earth, and the band began a world tour. In 2010, Finn commenced another world tour with Crowded House in support of their 2010 release, Intriguer. In February 2014 Finn released his third solo album %22Dizzy Heights.%22
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| - Neil
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- Finn Neil Mullane
- Mullane Finn
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