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Mama (sung by Kelly family)

The history of the Kelly Family must be one of the most unusual band biographies there is. In 1966, dancer Barbara Ann and her husband Daniel Jerome Kelly leave the USA with the four children Danny, Caroline, Paul and Kathy and settle in southern Spain. The children begin singing and dancing to folk music with their parents there. Because they enjoy making music, they start appearing at birthday parties, weddings. The father gives up the business and starts singing with his children.

Mother Barbara gives the children ballet lessons at home, and they take music lessons. Under the name of the "Kelly Kids", the family make their Spanish television debut in 1975 and go on tour through Spain.

Once when they were sightseeing in Italy the Kellys' minibus was robbed, leaving only their instruments and passports. Seriously short of money now, the family starts singing on the street. Passers-by stop in amazement and the collecting-basket keeps filling up with money. At the end of the first day, Dan tells his children: "Kids, our life has changed!" They go on from Italy to Austria, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Not long after that, they sign their first record contract. They get their first Number 1 hit in Holland and Belgium in 1980.

The Kelly children's mother falls ill with breast cancer in 1981. The family returns to Pamplona, Spain. A year later she dies Kellys take her last wish, " Keep on singing", as a promise.

In 1998 they buy their first house in Amsterdam. In 1990: Father Dan is paralyzed down his right side The Kelly children go on tour alone for the first time. Thanks to his iron discipline, their father gets back on his feet, and for the first time since his illness, he appears with his kids in 1994 in front of 16,000 people on the stage of the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund.

The family fills all Europe's football stadiums and makes its biggest live appearance in Vienna before an audience of 250,000.

Meanwhile, the Kellys are known on other continents, in countries such as China, South Africa and the USA.

There are 9 brothers in the group. They play lots of musical instruments: keyboards, accordion, guitars, mandolin, harp, drums, harmonica, and percussion. They have 16 video albums and 15 CD albums. The youngest of the brothers is Angelo. He is 17. All the songs are written, composed, performed and produced by the Kelly family.

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