Bono
Irish musician and activist Bono (center) visiting a school near Maseru, Lesotho, in 2006, as part of an African tour to call attention to progress in providing treatment to HIV/AIDS patients.
Bono
Irish singer
Also known as: Paul David Hewson
Bono (born May 10, 1960, Dublin, Ireland) is the lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2 and a prominent human rights activist. He was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother (who died when he was just age 14). In Dublin in 1977, he and school friends David Evans (later “the Edge”), Larry Mullen, Jr., and Adam Clayton formed a band that would become U2. They shared a commitment not...
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