Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, on November 11, 1970, Neil Hannon is also known
as the creator of The Divine Comedy. The son of a clergyman, he grew up between
Fivemiletown and Enniskillen, where his family settled in 1982. Attracted to pop
and rock, he created The Divine Comedy project in 1989, which met with success
in the mid-1990s with chamber pop albums such as Liberation (1993), Casanova
(1996), A Short Album About Love (1997) and Fin de Siècle (1998). In 2000, he
collaborated for the first time with composer Joby Talbot on Ute Lemper's album
Punishing Kiss, and also compo...