Firelight

Maltese folk-pop music group Firelight shaped in 2013 round the skills of songwriter and lead singer Richard Edward Micallef. Given birth to in to the entertainment globe, Micallef was encircled by a family group of performers and music artists — his dad was a renowned vocalist in Malta — and he was raised playing classical guitar, the Appalachian hill dulcimer, and percussive devices. The group, including his sister Michelle Mifsud on piano and sibling Daniel Micallef on classical guitar, started when Edward came back from your U.K. after showing up around the 2005 release from the X-Factor, and touring with U.K. rock-band Solid Away. Micallef attemptedto represent Malta in the Eurovision Track Contest several times — within the group the Mics in 2003 and 2005, as soon as solo in ’09 2009 — and he was ultimately effective when Firelight had been chosen to represent their nation in the 2014 display. The overall performance of their folk-pop track “Coming House” gained them a unsatisfactory rating of 32 factors and remaining them in 23rd place; nevertheless, a digital edition of the track do enter the U.K., Austrian, German, and Irish Singles Graphs.