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Declan was born on December 19, 1991 in England. He is from Scottish and Irish origin. Declan’s grandfather sang in a band and played several instruments and often took Declan along to the concerts he was playing in. The mix of Scottish and Irish musical traditions inspired Declan and became his early musical influence.
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迪克蘭1991年12月19日出生在英國，身兼蘇格蘭和愛爾蘭的血統(tǒng)。他的祖父在一個樂隊中唱歌，會演奏多種樂器。祖父參加音樂會演奏的時候經(jīng)常會帶上小迪克蘭。蘇格蘭和愛爾蘭音樂傳統(tǒng)的融合激發(fā)了他的靈感，成為他在音樂上的啟蒙。 |
| Declan’s talent was publicly acknowledged for the first time when at just 7 years old he insisted on performing spontaneously at the annual Rochester Dickens Festival, a two-day extravaganza where people were invited to dress up in Victorian costumes to celebrate the life of the famous author Charles Dickens and his links with the town of Rochester. Little Declan, dressed up as a chimney sweep, started singing and the crowd went wild. Soon after this he started to enter local talent contests and within a year he had won 15 titles and more than ￡1,000.00. He wisely put most of it into a savings account, but he did spend some of it on computer games, a basketball and a brand new football. |
迪克蘭7歲那年，他的音樂才華第一次為大眾所知。在那一年的羅切斯特狄更斯節(jié)上，他堅持要求即興演出。狄更斯節(jié)每年舉辦一次。在為期兩天的盛典上，人們穿著維多利亞時代的服飾，紀(jì)念大文豪查爾斯·狄更斯的一生以及他與羅切斯特市之間千絲萬縷的聯(lián)系。打扮成掃煙囪小孩的小迪克蘭在盛典上引吭高歌，人群立即為之瘋狂。不久之后，他開始參加地區(qū)才藝比賽。在短短一年之內(nèi)，他拿到了15個獎項和超過一千英鎊的獎金。迪克蘭聰明地將獎金存進(jìn)了銀行，不過在此之前，他先買了電腦游戲、一個籃球和一個嶄新的足球。 |
| As a result of his success in the talent shows, the major recording companies soon heard about Declan and he was signed to his first recording contract in England. His first recording was “Walking in the Air“, which was released on a special Christmas Hits album, also featuring Westlife, Elton John and Elvis Presley. |
迪克蘭在才藝比賽中頻頻獲勝，很快幾家大唱片公司都知曉了他的名字。他在英國簽訂了第一份唱片合約，首支單曲《空中漫步》（Walking in the Air）被收錄在一張圣誕特輯中，同西城男孩（Westlife）、埃爾頓·約翰（Elton John）、貓王（Elvis Presley）等歌壇大腕的作品排列在一起。 |
| His first album entitled Declan was released Sept 22, 2002, under record giants EMI. It comprised mainly of Irish traditional songs and some specially written material and became charted in the UK and Ireland. His second album, entitled Thank You, was released on December 1, 2006. It contained many of Declan's personal favorite songs including "An Angel" which was a huge hit in Germany; it was originally sung by the Kelly Family. Thank You was ranked No. 5 on the German Top 40 in 2006 and the album reached gold in April 2007. |
迪克蘭的首張同名專輯于2002年9月22日由唱片業(yè)巨頭百代公司發(fā)行。這張專輯中大部分是愛爾蘭傳統(tǒng)民歌，此外還有一些專門為迪克蘭而作的內(nèi)容。專輯在英國和愛爾蘭大獲成功。2006年12月1日，迪克蘭發(fā)行了他的第二張專輯《謝謝你》（Thank You），里面收錄了很多迪克蘭個人最喜歡的歌曲，其中翻唱自“凱利家庭”合唱團(tuán)的歌曲《天使》（An Angel）在德國大受歡迎。《謝謝你》在2006年德國最受歡迎的40首歌曲中名列第五。2007年4月，這張專輯達(dá)到了金唱片的銷量。 |
| In his newest CD, You And Me, Declan has written his very first song, “Moody Blues”. He says that he is very pleased with his new album because it is more of the style of music he likes and listens to and would like to sing. |
迪克蘭的最新唱片《你和我》中首次收錄了他自己創(chuàng)作的歌曲《憂郁藍(lán)調(diào)》（Moody Blues）。他說自己對這張新專輯很滿意，里面收錄的更多是他自己喜歡聽、喜歡唱的歌曲。
（China.org.cn 李瀟 譯）
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