Biography
1) Aidan Cassar, widely recognised as Aidan, is a singer-songwriter hailing from Żejtun, Malta. He is widely regarded as one of the most prominent Maltese musicians of all time, having secured an unprecedented 14 No. 1 singles and over 80 weeks at No. 1 on the Maltese charts as of July 2026.
While Aidan made his entry into the music scene in 2015, and has enjoyed top chart positions from 2018 onward, his true breakthrough moment arrived with the release of his track "Naħseb Fik" in 2021. Captivating both domestic and international audiences, it made history as the first-ever Maltese-language song to surpass one million streams on Spotify. Since then, he has consistently topped the Maltese music charts more than any other artist. This success has further solidified Aidan's stature, with his tens of millions of streams making him one of the most-streamed Maltese artists of all time. Today, Aidan also holds the distinction of creating the two most-streamed Maltese-language tracks in history: "Naħseb Fik" and "Bella." Additionally, he has left an unprecedented global footprint as a Maltese artist, performing for audiences in over 15 countries.
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His musical journey has included notable appearances on various Maltese and international programmes, including X Factor, Maltese national music festival Mużika Mużika, the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, and the Eurovision Song Contest itself in 2026. Beyond his own projects, Aidan also maintains an active writing and collaboration footprint within the local industry, having authored tracks for multiple domestic acts alongside collaborations with other artists such as Ira Losco, naBBoo, and Carlo Gerada. Additionally, he has won multiple domestic music awards and has performed at the Isle of MTV music festival multiple times.
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.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.