Overview
The inspirational autobiography of the Irish Tenor In Halfway Home, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his moving life story - a story Barbara Walters calls 'so amazing you may find it hard to believe' - of overcoming adversity and attaining worldwide success in several different fields. Diagnosed with a lower-limb disability at birth, Tynan had his legs amputated below the knee when he was twenty years old. Eight weeks later, he was climbing the stairs of his college dormitory, and within a year, he was winning races in the Paralympic Games, amassing eighteen gold medals and fourteen world records. After becoming the first disabled person ever admitted to the National College of Physical Education, he served a short stint in the prosthetics industry and began a new career in medicine. He continued his studies at Trinity College, where he specialized in orthopaedic sports injuries. After earning his medical degree, Tynan chose music for the next act in his life. Less than one year after he began studying voice, he won both the John McCormack Cup for Tenor Voice and the BBC talent show Go For It. He went on to win the prestigious International Operatic Singing Competition in France, and in 1998 his debut Sony album, My Life Belongs to You, became a top-five hit in England within just two weeks and eventually went platinum. Later that year, he was invited to join The Irish Tenors, furthering a journey that started in a small Irish village and has brought him to the world's grandest stages.
Full Product Details
Author: Ronan Tynan
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.193kg
ISBN: 9780553814767
ISBN 10: 0553814761
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 03 November 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Readers expecting the usual singer biography will be delighted and transfixed by his extraordinary life story...Genuinely inspiring...Highly recommended * Library Journal * Extraordinary...Read it and be inspired * Daily Mail * An extraordinary story * Sunday Tribune *
An extraordinary story Sunday Tribune Extraordinary...Read it and be inspired Daily Mail Readers expecting the usual singer biography will be delighted and transfixed by his extraordinary life story...Genuinely inspiring...Highly recommended Library Journal
Author Information
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1960, Ronan Tynan is one of the world-renowned Irish Tenors. Able to walk only with the aid of prosthetic limbs, he is a horseman, an athlete, a doctor, a singer, and now a writer. He lives in Ireland.
