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Dancer Michael Flatley, a Chicago native with an extremely high level of energy, may appear to some as an egotistical sex symbol. But that may be because he is consumed by his work, business and art.

"People confuse self-confidence with ego," Flatley has stated in the past. His motto has always been, "If you can dream it, you can have it."Flatley will bring his 40-member Irish dance concert, "Lord of the Dance," to the Delta Center Monday and Tuesday, June 2-3. Show-time for both performances is 8 p.m.

The road to success has had many strange twists and turns for Flatley, 38. His father hails from Sligo, Ireland, an area famous for its music, dance and legends. His mother was reared in Carlow, where his maternal grandmother had been a Leinster dance champion.

Although his first dive into the performing arts was with the flute, Flatley, who is the second of five children, turned to a more physical sense of expression.

He began dancing at 11. And when he was told by numerous dance teachers that he was too old to begin, it only made him work harder.

The hard work paid off. By 17, the motivated artist became the first American All-World Irish Dancing champion. Shortly after graduating from high school, Flatley joined seve

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How They Met: Michael Flatley and wife Niamh locked eyes on the dancefloor

He's the Lord of the Dance so it's fitting that Michael Flatley and his wife Niamh O'Brien first locked eyes across the dancefloor.

After 18 years of marriage, Ireland's dancing king and his glamourous wife still look as in love as ever and we're charting their happily ever after which certainly began in a whirlwind way.

The interval act during the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 may have kickstarted Michael's career to international superstardom but it was one dancer who stole his heart and changed his life forever.

Irish dancing's bad boy

The Irish-American dancer was first married to Polish hairdresser artist Beata Dziaba for 11 years, who he met while dancing in London in 1985 with The Chieftains. He split from Beata in 1997 after revealing he had an affair with another dancer Kelley Byrne who was 19 at the time.

He would go on to have a high-profile relationship with Lisa Murphy. The Irish dancer popped the question to her while they were on a romantic escape in Monte Carlo in 2002 and they went on to have an on-and-off relationship until 2006.

How they met

Niamh performed in many of his shows and sources close to the couple said that there was an 'immediate attraction' between th

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