Neil Mullane Finn OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer/songwriter and musician. Along with his brother
Tim Finn, he was the co-
frontman for
Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim Finn and others, and is now frontman for
Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the
7 Worlds Collide project; contributor
Ed O'Brien, also guitarist for
Radiohead, has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".