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Artist
Lunitic
12+ albums
Irish Hip Hop
about
Lunitic (1984 - 2009) was an MC from Dublin Hip Hop Group Urban Intelligence Lunitic was born Daniel McDonnell on the 6th of December 1984, In Dublin's Rotunda hospital. At the age of 6 months after an operation on Lunitic's heart, His mother decided to moved them both to Sussex, England wheere they lived with relatives for a year before moving back to Dublin. Originally from Finglas on Dublin's north side, Lunitic's mother moved them both into her future husband's 3 bedroom house in Ballymun. "At the time this was very strange for me. To go from being an only child, to suddenly having 2 step brothers & a step sister". Lunitic recalls. He found the adjustment from all the counfort's of his grandparents house in Finglas, To a cold house with 3 new sibling's in Ballymun very hard, but soon grew close with his step family especially step brother Danny. Lunitic always had a huge interest in music & performing. His earliest musical influences were The Dubliners & The Pogues who he listened to frequently on record in his grandparents house. "I remember askin' me granda to play "The Last Of The Irish Rover" again & again" At the age of 10 lunitic took guitar lesson's but soon discovered he was no Hendrix & packed it in after a year & a half. A constant performer at family gathering's, Lunitic began writing his own lyric's at the age of 14 around the same time of his new born brother Roberts 2nd birthday. after his cousin sabrina gave him a copy of the 2pac album "All eyes on me
