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Jon Kenny
Irish comedian and actor (1957–2024)
For other people with the same name, see John Kenny.
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| Birth name | Jonathan Kenny |
| Born | (1957-09-28)28 September 1957 Hospital, County Limerick, Ireland |
| Died | 15 November 2024(2024-11-15) (aged 67) Galway, County Galway, Ireland |
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| Years active | c. 1972–2023 |
| Spouse | Marguerite Kenny (m. 1988) |
| Children | 2 |
| Notable works and roles | |
| Website | jonkenny.net |
Jonathan Kenny (28 September 1957 – 15 November 2024) was an Irish comedian and actor, best known as one half of the Irish comic duo D'Unbelievables with Pat Shortt.[1] They were a successful duo until 2000, releasing One Hell of a Video, D'Unbelievables, D'Video, D'Telly, D'Mother and D'collection but the group stopped touring after Kenny was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[2][3]
Early life
Jonathan Kenny was born in Hospital, County Limerick, on 28 September 1957.[4][5][6] His mother's maiden
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John Kenny was born in 1957 in Birmingham. Internationally recognised for his interpretation of contemporary music, he also performs jazz and early music. As a composer, he is particularly active in collaborations with dance and theatre, and this love of theatre is often an important feature of his recital output. His past commissions have included the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the International Trombone Association, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust, Chamber Group of Scotland, Dance Umbrella, American Drama Group Europe, The New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas (USA) and the Festival d’ Angers, France.
Commissions in 2005 included a sonata for contra-bass trombone, premiered at the Glasgow Brass explosion Festival by the American virtuoso David Bobroff; HeadSpace for trumpet, trombone, sound designer, and the new Head=Space device for quadriplegic musician Clarence Adoo, designed by Rolf Gehlhaar, premiered at the St. Magnus Festival on Orkney. In autumn 2005,
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John Kenny
In 2006 I developed my style of portrait photography within traditional communities, heavily influenced by the dramatic pictures of chiaroscuro artists. Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which literally means light-dark. Back then, at the very start of my Africa journey, I was buzzing with energy having met people of real magnetism just days into my trip. I was excited by extraordinary people and fascinating cultures and wondered how I could possibly communicate and express these feelings of excitement to friends and family back home.
The solution, I imagined, would involve abstracting the remarkable from the not so remarkable: put simply, I felt that the vibrant and intense individuals that I had met in traditional communities would best show their magnetism on camera when they were removed from the (often) dull and dusty backgrounds of their immediate environment. After a few days I started to imagine each of these people in front of me emerging from the nothingness of darkness, with no distractions, hoping that this would provide a real feeling of proximity between t
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