- Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 1976 – 10 October 2009) was an Irish pop singer-songwriter, actor, children's writer and dancer, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone.
- Gately and Keating originally served as co-frontmen, but Keating gradually became more synonymous with the group as time went on.
- All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful internationally.
- With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.
- He performed for millions of fans globally. (From Wikipedia.com)