Celebrity Name : Bono (Vox)

Celebrity Real Name : Paul Hewson

Date of Birth : 10 May 1960

Birth Location : Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Biography :
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), nicknamed Bono Vox (stage name) and Bono (pronounced Bonn-oh), is the lead singer and occasional rhythm guitarist of the Irish rock band U2. Bono lives south of Dublin with his family and shares a villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the South of France with The Edge, as well as an apartment at The Dakota in Manhattan. Paul Hewson was brought up in Glasnevin, Dublin. His mother, Iris, was Protestant, and his father, Bob, was a Roman Catholic.
“Bono Vox” is an alteration of Bona Vox, a brand of hearing aid. The phrase in Latin translates to “good voice”. “Bono Vox” was the name of a hearing aid shop they regularly passed on North Earl Street, just off O’Connell Street, in Dublin. It is said he was nicknamed “Bono Vox” after the shop by his friend Gavin Friday because he sang so loudly he seemed to be singing for the deaf. Initially, Bono did not like his name. However, when he learned it translated to “good voice”, he accepted it.

Humanitarian work:
In a 1986 interview with Rolling Stone magazine Bono explained that he was first motivated to become involved in social and political causes by seeing one of the benefit shows staged by Monty Python’s John Cleese and producer Martin Lewis for human rights organization Amnesty International in 1979. “I saw ‘The Secret Policeman’s Ball’ and it became a part of me. It sowed a seed…” The seed led to Bono and U2 being performers on Amnesty’s Conspiracy Of Hope tour of the US in 1986 alongside Sting who was one of the Secret Policeman’s Ball performers seen by Bono. It also led to Bono’s participation as a performer in the Band Aid and Live Aid projects organized by Bob Geldof - another Secret Policeman’s Ball performer - with whom Bono later collaborated as an organizer on the 2005 Live 8 project. Bono’s commitment to Amnesty has endured and when U2 contributed a live performance to Amnesty’s 2001 benefit, Bono introduced the song by referring to “The Secret Policeman’s Ball - which is a mysterious and extraordinary event that certainly changed my life… [wikipedia]