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Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Person · male · Ireland · born 1965
Irish musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1960s
Biography
English biography234 words · 4 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1306391279
Biography
Fiachna Ó Braonáin (born 27 November 1965) plays the guitar and sings vocals with the Irish band Hothouse Flowers. Born in Dublin, he received his school education at Scoil Lorcáin, Monkstown, County Dublin and Coláiste Eoin, Stillorgan, County Dublin. The Hothouse Flowers were founded as a Dublin street-performance act called the Incomparable Benzini Brothers by Fiachna and his schoolmate Liam Ó Maonlaí.
Fiachna appears on a duet with Belinda Carlisle on her 2007 release, Voila.
In September 2007, he released an album with his other band PreNup. Fellow musicians are Cait O'Riordan (Ex-Pogues) and Dave Clarke (Hothouse Flowers). In addition to that, Fiachna also previously hosted "Poetic Champions", a radio show that aired on Today FM every Sunday night from 7–8pm with the program involving Irish musicians who discuss the various albums that had an influence on them and their careers.
In 2020, he released his first solo album, Bougainvillea.
Solo
Bougainvillea - album, 2020
Winter Sun - EP, 2020
Her Coat And No Knickers - single, 2021
With Hothouse Flowers
People - 1988 - UK No. 2
Home - 1990 - UK No. 5
Songs From the Rain - 1993 - UK No. 7
Born - 1998
Live - 1999
Hothouse Flowers: The Best Of - 2000
The Vaults: Volume 1 - 2003
Into Your Heart - 2004
Hothouse Flowers: The Platinum Collection - 2006
Guest appearance
Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls (1989)
Def Leppard – Retro Active (1993)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Fiachna Ó Braonáin head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hothouse Flowers(band) | 1985 | present | original |
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5446265seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiachna_%C3%93_Braon%C3%A1inbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiachna_%C3%93_Braon%C3%A1in
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Irish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Drew de F Fawkes · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q5446265 · MusicBrainz: 37e95244-ba36-4481-adf5-a17f2dcab0d1
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