Bono

Rock Singer

Bono was born in Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland on May 10th, 1960 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 63, Bono biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Paul David Hewson, Bono, Bono Vox, Bon, B-Man, The Mirrorball Man
Date of Birth
May 10, 1960
Nationality
Ireland
Place of Birth
Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Age
63 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$700 Million
Profession
Actor, Entrepreneur, Guitarist, Producer, Screenwriter, Singer-songwriter
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Bono Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 63 years old, Bono has this physical status:

Height
166cm
Weight
68kg
Hair Color
Dark Brown
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Bono Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christianity
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Glasnevin National School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Bono Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Alison Hewson
Children
4, including Eve and Elijah
Dating / Affair
Alison Hewson (née Stewart) (1975-Present)
Parents
Brendan Robert “Bob” Hewson, Iris
Siblings
Norman Hewson
Bono Life

Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), also known as Bono (oreigner) is an Irish singer-songwriter, producer, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.

He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of U2's rock band. He was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and his classmates with whom he formed U2 in 1976.

Bono began to perform with a vivacious vocal style and grandiose gestures and songwriting and soon established himself as a leading frontman for the band.

His songs are best known for their socioeconomic and political orientations, as well as their devotional imagery inspired by his Christian convictions.

Bono's lyrics contributed to the group's insurgent and spiritual tone during U2's early years.

His songs were inspired more by personal experiences shared with the other members as the band matured.

Bono has received 22 Grammy Awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of U2 as a member of the United States. Bono has long been active in both U2 and as an individual.

He is particularly active in Africa campaigning for Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign, and Product Red.

He has appeared at benefit concerts and met with influential politicians in the search of these causes.

Bono has been praised for his philanthropic efforts; Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was given an honorary knighthood for "his contributions to the music industry and for his humanitarian efforts"; he was made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts and Letters.

Bono was named one of the Year's Best Artists in 2005.

He has worked with U2 bandmate Tina Turner on several projects, including: songs for Roy Orbison and Tina Turner; the soundtracks to the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and a London stage performance of A Clockwork Orange; and the refurbishment of the Clarence Hotel in Dublin.

He is the Managing Director and a Managing Partner of Elevation Partners, a private equity company that has invested in several companies.

Early life

On May 10, 1960, Bono was born Paul David Hewson, the second child of Iris (née Rankin) and Brendan Robert "Bob" Hewson. Norman Bono's brother is eight years old and has been living in Bono's household. Bono was born in Finglas, a Northside suburb. Bono's mother was a member of the Church of Ireland, and his father was a Roman Catholic, and the Hewson household was an interdenominational Christian one. The first child will be raised Anglican and the second Catholic, according to his parents. Despite Bono's second child, he attended Church of Ireland services with his mother and brother, while his father brought him to Mass at the nearby Catholic church, St Canice's. Bono discovered he had a half-brother who was born when his mother was still alive in 2000.

Bono attended Glasnevin National School, the local primary school. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, and T. Rex's Marc Bolan were all his teen musical idols.

Bono's mother died on September 10, 1974, after suffering a cerebral aneurysm at her father's funeral. Many U2 songs, including "I Will Follow," "Mofo," "Out of Control," "Lemon," and "Tomorrow," all rely on his mother's death.

Bono began attending Cathedral Grammar School in St. Patrick's for a year, and he moved to Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a multi-denominational academy in Clontarf. Bono and his family were members of the "Lypton Village" gang during his childhood and adolescence. The artist Guggi and the musician Gavin Friday, two of his closest childhood friends, lived on the same street; Guggi was also in Lypton Village. The gang had a tradition of nickname giving. Bono had several names: first, he was "Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang," "Houseman," "Bon Murray," "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street," and then "Bono." Bonavox, the name of a hearing aid store that was still located just off the street from Dublin's O'Connell Street, was given by Guggi, and it was mispronounced by Guggi. Although Guggi did not speak Latin, the word derives from that word and means "good voice." Bono initially loathed the name but then discovered it to be "strong voice" on his computer. Hewson has been known as "Bono" since the age of 14 or 15. Bono is his stage name; close family, acquaintances, and fellow band members also refer to him as Bono.

After Bono's school, his father told him he could live at home for one year, but he'd have to leave the house if he was unable to pay his own way.

Personal life

Bono is married to activist and companywoman Alison Hewson (née Stewart). The couple have four children: Jordan (born 10 May 1989) and Eve (born 7 July 1991) and sons Elijah Bob Patricius (born 17 August 1999) and John Abraham (born 20 May 2001). In the rock band Inhaler, Elijah is the lead guitarist and vocalist. Bono revealed in a 2022 interview that he had a half-brother after an intimate affair with his father that was unknown to his mother.

Bono purchased a top-floor duplex apartment in Manhattan's San Remo apartment building in the late 1980s or early 1990s from Steve Jobs for $15 million. Jobs had refurbished it for his own use, but no one came in.

Bono received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.

Bono's 2013 claims in a series of interviews that were published and videotaped of his belief in Jesus Christ, he said that Christ is either who he said he was or he is "a complete and utter nutcase." Bono was triggering this controversy as early as 2005, describing it as the "Lewis trilemma" in the case.

Bono is almost never seen in public without sunglasses as he has glaucoma. During a Rolling Stone interview, he said, "Itael Stone" was the word that came to mind.

Bono sustained a spinal injury while preparing for a U2 tour in May 2010 and was admitted to a German clinic in Munich for emergency neurosurgery. The North American leg of the tour was postponed and rescheduled for 2011.

Bono was involved in a "high energy bicycle accident" in New York's Central Park on November 16, 2014. Bono was rushed to the Emergency Department of Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York and underwent "multiple X-rays and CAT scans" followed by five hours of surgery. Bono sustained fractured of the shoulder blade, humerus, orbit, and pinky finger. "[Bono] was taken urgently to the operating room, where a nerve blockage in the break was cleared and dragged, and the bone was repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws," Orthopedic trauma surgeon Dean Lorich, MD, said. "As I write this, it is not likely that I will ever play guitar again," Bono wrote to U2's official website.

Bono had what the Edge described as a "brush with mortality" during recording sessions for U2's album Songs of Experience. Bono had a near-death experience between Christmas and New Year's Day in late 2016. The Irish Times reported that sometime in late 2016, between Christmas and New Year's Day, he had a near-death experience. He declined to elaborate any further on what happened other than stating that it was a physical health scare. He reworked the album's lyrics as a result of the episode.

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Bono Career

Musical career

Bono, David Evans ("The Edge"), his brother Dik Evans, and Adam Clayton responded to a Mount Temple bulletin board newspaper ad urging people interested in joining a rock band on September 25, 1976. The band had occasional jam sessions in which they did not have covers of other bands. Bono wanted to perform The Rolling Stones and Beach Boys songs after a long guitar solos and hard rock. The band couldn't play covers very well, so they started writing their own songs instead.

For a few months, the band went by the name "Feedback" before changing to "The Hype" later on. The remaining four officially changed the name from "The Hype" to "U2" after Dik Evans left the group to join another local band, the Virgin Prunes. Bono played piano, and wrote the band's songs from the beginning. "I was the guitar player, along with the Edge," he said of his early guitar playing in a 1982 interview; but he couldn't play guitar. I can't. I was such a lousy guitar player that one day they told me that maybe I should sing instead. I had tried before but had no voice at all. I remember the day I discovered I could sing. "Oh, that's how you do it," I said. Bono was relegated mainly to the microphone when The Edge's guitar playing improved, although he does occasionally play rhythm guitar and harmonica. Bono has taken piano lessons from his children's piano teacher as a way to improve his songwriting as of 2006.

U2 performed at the Live Aid benefit concert at Wembley Stadium on July 13, 1985, drawing 72,000 viewers and a worldwide television audience of 1.5 billion viewers. Bono climbed down from the stage to embrace and dance with a female fan he had picked out of the crowd, exposing television viewers the personal connection he could make with viewers. Bono's impromptu departure from the stage pushed "Bad" to an allotted duration and requiring them to drop "Pride (In the Name of Love)," their first hit from their setlist. The company started dismissing the performance as a missed opportunity, but many journalists praised their appearance as one of the show's highlights; the Guardian cited Live Aid as the event that made stars of U2 and their appearance as one of the top rock shows in history.

Bono writes the lyrics for almost all U2 songs, which often have social and political themes. His lyrics often refer to a religious affiliation or meaning, as shown by songs such as "Gloria" from the band's album October and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" from The Joshua Tree. Bono was known for his rebellious tone during the band's War, The Joshua Tree and Hum eras, which sparked political indignation and indignation. The Provisional IRA militias threatened to kidnap Bono following the Enniskillen bombing that killed 11 people and injured 63 others on October 8, 1987. A vehicle carrying the band members was also attacked by IRA demonstrators. These remarks came as a result of his address condemning the Enniskillen bombing during a live performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday." The singer had been advised to cut his on-stage outburst from the Rattle and Hum film, but it was left in. The film also includes a video of the band's free "Save the Yuppies" concert on Sunday Herman Plaza in San Francisco on November 11, 1987, where Bono spray-painted "Rock N Roll Stops the Traffic" on the Valiantcourt Fountain sculpture. Mayor Dianne Feinstein chastised Bono for damaging public property and received a criminal charge for defacing public property. Bill Graham, the band's promoter, apologised in a written letter to local authorities, and the band's promoter Bill Graham agreed to pay to remove the graffiti.

With their 1991 album, Achtung Baby, U2's sound and vision dramatically changed. Bono's songs became more personal, inspired by experiences related to the members' personal lives. Bono wore a variety of costumed stage personae during the band's 1992-to-date Zoo TV Tour in an effort to be more upbeat and avoid the group's image of being overly serious and self-righteous. "We tried to be ourselves in the Eighties, but we failed when the lights were on," Bono said. Which brings us right back to Zoo TV. We decided to have some fun being other people, or at least other versions of ourselves." "the Fly" was Bono's main character on the tour, and it came from him wearing a huge pair of blaxploitation sunglasses, which were gifted to him by wardrobe manager Fintan Fitzgerald to lighten the studio's mood. He turned the persona into a leather-clad egomaniac, Elvis Presley's jacket, and Jim Morrison's leather trousers, and referred to his outfit as having Lou Reed's glasses, Elvis Presley's jacket, and Jim Morrison's leather trousers. Bono dyed his naturally brown hair black to complement the character's dark fashion. Bono strutted around the stage with "swagger and style," behaving the demeanour of an egotistical rock star. He often stayed in character as the Fly away from the stage, particularly for public appearances and stays in hotels.

Bono wore a shining silver lamé suit with matching shoes and a cowboy hat on his "Mirror Ball Man" stage role. The style was designed to parody cynical Americans, showmen, and vehicle salesman, and was based on Phil Ochs' Elvis persona from his 1970 tour. The character, according to Bono, portrayed "a kind of showman America." He had the confidence and charm to pull up a mirror and take a look at himself and give the glass a big kiss. He loved cash and believed that God had granted him a blessing." During encores of concerts in 1992, Mirror Ball Man made prank calls from the stage, many to the White House in an attempt to reach President George H. W. Bush. On the first three legs of the tour, Bono portrayed this alter ego but later switched him to "MacPhisto" in 1993. MacPhisto was created to parody the devil and was named after the Faust legend's Mephistopheles. Bono wore a gold lamé suit with gold platform shoes, pale lipstick, lipstick, and devil's horns on his head as MacPhisto. Bono portrayed a hysterical upper-class English accent as the role, which was similar to that of a down-on-his-luck actor. "We came up with a sort of old English Devil," the pop star's prime return to a Vegas session and regaling anyone who would listen to him at cocktail hour with tales from the good old, bad old days. Bono's macPhisto dial calls, attacking local politicians and mocking them by playing them in character as the devil, so you know it's not a compliment."

Bono likes to engage with the audience as often as possible during performances. He is well-known for either escorting audience members onto the stage or bringing them down to the audience's physical condition. Bono burst off the stage and pulled a woman from the audience to dance with her as the band played "Bad" at the Live Aid concert in 1985. During the song "An Cat Dubh/ Into the Heart" in Chicago, he pulled a child into the spotlight. Fans have been able to attend and perform songs with Bono for the majority of their live shows.

Bono described the award "fully, really brilliant" when accepting the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song on "The Hands That Built America" in 2003. During the live television broadcast, Ed Miliband was interviewed. The Parents Television Council chastised Bono for his profanity and started a campaign for its members to file complaints with the FCC. Although Bono's use of "fuck" breached FCC indecency legislation, the FCC refused to discipline NBC because the network did not have advance notice of the consequences of broadcasting such profanity and profanity in question was not used in its literal sense. On December 8, 2003, a group of congressmen introduced House Resolution 3687, the "Clean Airwaves Act," in apparent reaction to the rejection. The act was designed to amend section 1464 of the United States Code to include a specific list of profane words and phrases and remove ambiguity that may have allowed certain usages of the terms. The bill was not introduced. The event has had a long-term effect on live broadcastings in terms of profanity treatment.

In 2007, U2 was chastised for moving parts of their multimillion-euro song catalog from Ireland to Amsterdam, just six months before Ireland gave up a tax exemption on musicians' royalties. Bands are subjected to low to non-existent tax rates as a result of Dutch tax law. Paul McGuinness, the U2's chief, said that the arrangement was legal and customary, and companies often wanted to minimize their tax burdens. The step sparked protests in Ireland's parliament. The band later announced that over 95% of their company was located outside of Ireland and that taxation was levied globally as a result of this. In a study published in 2008 by the charity Christian Aid, Bono was one of many wealthy people whose tax arrangements had been singled out for criticism.

Bono has collaborated with Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Luciano Pavarotti, Sinéad O'Connor, Sinéad O'Connor, Green Day, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, B.B., Tina Turner, B.B. King and Zucchero. He has performed with Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Kirk Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Bennett, Clannad, The Corrs, Wyclef Jean, Kylie Minogue, Carl Perkins, and Herbert Grönemeyer. He played bass guitar and sang on Robbie Robertson's 1987 eponymous album. Bono and producer Andy Gill completed the unfinished song "Slide Away" by Michael Hutchence's 1999 posthumous eponymous album by recording vocals by Bono. He worked with African stars D'banj, Waje, and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde in 2015 for a women's liberation song titled "Strong Girl."

Bono and the Edge have written and recorded several songs together outside of U2. They produced the musical score for the Royal Shakespeare Company's London stage production of A Clockwork Orange, which opened in 1990. The pair co-authored the eponymous theme song of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, which was also performed by Tina Turner. Bono and the Edge delved into theatre again when they composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and they were featured on Reeve Carney's single "Rise Above 1" on the soundtrack in 2011. The pair performed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake's "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) with Jay-Z and Rihanna, which was part of the Hope for Haiti Now relief telethon. Bono and the Edge were featured on Dutch DJ Martin Garrix's album "We Are the People," which served as the official song of the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament and was released on May 2021.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bono performed "Let Your Love Be Known" on March 17, 2020. The song was released on YouTube as a result of will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, and Yoshiki, and was titled "#SING4LIFE" on March 24th.

Film career

Bono was an executive producer of the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, which was based on a story by him and Nicholas Klein. It starred Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, and Mel Gibson.

Bono appeared in Across the Universe's 2007, a cameo in a psychedelic scene, depicting the character "Dr. Robert" and singing the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus."

In the 2021 animated musical film Sing 2, the lion rock legend Clay Calloway, Bono played a character.

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