Halfway Home: My Life 'til Now

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Yes, I am a singer. But I am also a horseman, an athlete, and a doctor. I am a son, a brother, and a friend. I can sing as I do only because of the life that I've led. With each decade, I've found myself in very different, evermore challenging arenas, but the many stages of my life have always intertwined. I have moved from one stage to the next as if on a wild steeplechase, keeping my eye fixed straight ahead and above me. If there is a single line connecting all the episodes and main events of my life it is this -- a gift both given and received. -- from the IntroductionInHalfway Home,a beautifully written memoir, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his remarkable story of overcoming adversity and attaining worldwide success in several different areas. Diagnosed with a lower limb disability at birth, Ronan 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 dorm, 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 orthopedic sports injuries. After earning his medical degree, Ronan chose music for the next act in his life. Less than one year after he began studying voice, he won both the John McCormick Cup for Tenor Voice and the BBC talent showGo 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. InHalfway Home,Tynan movingly describes his life story, which Barbara Walters called "so amazing you may find it hard to believe. "
Copyright:
2002

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
238 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780743234863
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
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Copyrighted By:
Ronan Tynan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Music
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Bookshare Staff
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