1) Aidan Cassar, widely recognized as Aidan, is a singer-songwriter hailing from Żejtun, Malta. He has left a massive mark on the Maltese music industry since his emergence in 2015. His musical journey has included many chart-topping hits, along with notable appearances on various Maltese television programs, including X Factor, Mużika Mużika, and the Malta Eurovision Song Contest in 2018, 2022, and 2025. Beyond his own projects, Aidan's prowess as a songwriter is also a force to be reckoned with, having written numerous songs for fellow Maltese artists, and collaborated with other artists such as Ira Losco and Carlo Gerada. While Aidan made his entry into the music scene in 2015, and enjoyed top chart positions from 2018 onward, his true breakthrough moment arrived with the release of his track "Naħseb Fik" in 2021, captivating audiences and attaining massive popularity in Malta. Since then, he has consistently topped the Maltese music charts with each of his releases. His more recent singles, such as "Ritmu" in 2022 and "Reġina" in 2023, have further solidified Aidan's stature as a prominent Maltese artist and garnered international recognition, gaining hundreds of thousands of streams. Aidan's debut album "This is Aidan", which was released at the end of March 2023, has already been a success, with its lead track, "Pupa", still reigning supreme at the #1 spot on Maltese charts months later. The album has achieved over a million streams internationally, a testament to Aidan's talent and the impact he has made in the world of Maltese music. With his captivating and modern projects, Aidan Cassar has rightfully earned his place as one of Malta's most celebrated and influential artists, with both a Maltese and international fanbase eagerly awaiting the next step of his musical journey. He won the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with "Bella" and is set to represent Malta at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. 2) Born and raised in Dublin and currently living in Bruxelles, the road that took him there has been considerably longer than the distance between the two cities. Infected with the travel bug from an early age, Aidan was quick to strap on a guitar, jump on his bike and set off on a variety of adventures throughout Europe. Writing, recording and playing his way across nine different countries, Aidan would wake up some days as a farmer, some days a scuba-diver and some days as a sound engineer - always singing and clocking up the kilometers on his bike. As his travels continued, he had the opportunity to meet and play with artists as diverse as Bobby McFerrin, Damien Rice, Conor O'Brien (Villagers) and Antoine Wielemans (Girls In Hawaii). Some of these collaborations made it to tape, some to stage, and others no further than the kitchen table, but each was important in forging his continuing path. His new album, "Le Grand Discours" is a culmination of this journey: A series of eleven snapshots; eleven intimate, yet high-energy performances; beautifully and carefully orchestrated with all the colours of his travels. The album features guest performances by many of the characters he has met along the way, lifting its lyric with string, wind and vocal arrangements and set to the solid backbone of the Italian Weather Ladies, a group of specially selected musicians who accompany Aidan on his musical quest. An experienced musician with hundreds of shows under his belt, Aidan has also recorded and toured around the world with Irish Meteor Award Winner, Wallis Bird, as well as releasing his own live album, "Live and Sans Souci", with his collaborators, the Italian Weather Ladies, and being selected by Music Network, to represent Ireland in the 2008 Biennale in Italy with his previous musical vehicle, "Lord Altmont". "Le Grand Discours", will be released with Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics and Rough Trade on March 16th 2012, will remind you of Elbow, Nick Drake, John Martyn or even Villagers. Aidan is one of those rare musicians where the energy he evokes in his performance seems to come from some deep and unknown place, so close your eyes and allow yourself be taken away... 4) Dutch folk musician Eindhoven based singer-songwriter Diederik van den Brandt who performs solo and with band under the moniker Aidan. His first album has yet to be released in the spring of 2016.