THE FEUD THAT BROKE HIM

HOW THE VOICE STAR RECONNECTED WITH HIS OLD GROUP

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Ronan Keating knows all too well that life is a roller-coaster. And the singer, who is about to rejoin The Voice Australia as a coach for the first time in nearly a decade, is currently riding a high after ending a long-running estrangement from his Boyzone bandmates.

Ronan, now 48, found fame in the early ’90s with the Irish boy band. But his relationship with Boyzone members Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham, Keith Duffy and the late Stephen Gately became strained when the group went on hiatus in 1999 after Ronan launched his successful solo career. His track ‘When You Say Nothing at All’ was featured in the movie Notting Hill and became a global hit.

“When Ronan became a huge star in his own right, his bandmates felt abandoned,” a music industry insider tells New Idea.