Jasmar Cassar

Jasmar Cassar is a Maltese singer, songwriter and video producer. While highlighting his androgynous style, Cassar has been performing his music in Malta and Italy since his early teenage years.

Cassar was born on 14 October 1998 in Pieta, Malta. Cassar was raised by his mother Mary Rose Aquilina. He skipped most of his secondary school years but later in life completed post-secondary at GEM16+.

Cassar competed in Malta's Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 for the first time with his Maltese song Id-Dinja Tieghi. He came back to Malta's Junior Eurovision in 2010, when he competed in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with a completely different look and style. He performed his ballad-pop track My Star where he finished in ninth place.

In 2013, Cassar took his career outside his home country and competed in the Italian festival Sanremo Doc. where he placed second. In that same year, he competed in the prestigious Maltese festival Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza with the song Muzika (written by Minik and Rita Pace) a modern classic-pop/disco, that showed big potentials in his falsetto vocals.

In 2014, Cassar had the opportunity to compete in Italy. He competed and won the Singer/Songwriter category in the Italian festival Il-Cantagiro with his own song Ti Amo, I Love You.

In 2015, Cassar teamed up with 4 other local singers, and competed as the group L-Ilħna with the original gospel song Qalbien in the Maltese Festival Għanja Gmiel Is-Seba' Noti (organised by Erseb Productions). The group won 1st place, Best Presentation and the Overall Trophy.

Cassar released his first official single Just Be which he composed, written by Matt 'Muxu' Mercieca, mixed and mastered by Cyprian Cassar (former member of Tenishia). Just Be was released on Youtube accompanied by a video clip directed and produced by Jasmar Cassar.

On June 10, 2016, Cassar released his second single When Love Comes Around which he composed - accompanied by a music video which he directed and produced. After its release, When Love Comes Around was nominated for an Akademia Award in the Best Pop Video category.

Later on in July, together with his sister Shyli and K13, Cassar competed in the Semi-Final of L-Għanja tal-Poplu, with a hip-hop song named Tama (hope).

On 14 October 2016, Cassar released his single On The Run. Cassar's single spent 6 weeks on the MVTV's Top 20, reaching its highest spot #11 on the 5th of November. Following its release, he was nominated for the Top Music Video (Non-Maltese Language) in the MMI 2016 Listeners' Picks Poll with both When Love Comes Around and On The Run.