born in ballymote, sligo, kiev (kevin) connolly has been writing songs, playing guitar and keyboard, and performing since finishing school in cork. in 1978 he moved to germany performing in folk clubs in stuttgart and heidelberg. moving to west berlin in 1979, he became fluent in german, studied music theory at the hochschule der kunstler, and worked as a studio manager and music producer in recordland, and musik world recording studios. he went on to form the pop music group the missing passengers and securing a recording contract with arista/ariola, munich. achieving success with two original albums in the european charts. in 1985 the group performed kiev's hit song did she tell you on both the extratour program radio bremen/ard, and the musik convoy program on wdr/ard.