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Ronnie Drew
Musical artist
Joseph Ronald Drew[1] (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008)[2] was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.
He sang lead vocals on the singles "Seven Drunken Nights" and "The Irish Rover", which both charted in the UK top 10 and were performed on TOTP. His voice was once described by Nathan Joseph as being "like the sound of coke being crushed under a door".[3][4][5]
Early life
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"Ronnie Drew in his fine suit of blue
And a voice like gravel that would cut you in two
We thought he was Dublin through and through
But he blew in from Dún Laoghaire"
~ Andy Irvine, 2004
Ronnie Drew was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in 1934.
Although he was so intimately associated with being "a Dubliner", he would sometimes say, "I was born and grew up in Dún Laoghaire, and no true Dubliner would accept that at all!",[