Ciaran Lavery is an Irish singer-songwriter from Aghagallon. By July 2015, he had racked up over 14 million plays on Spotify for his debut releases; an great result for such a new artist at the time. He won the Hot Press Big Break competition and had his first headline Irish tour at the same time. In May 2015 he beat off intense competition to be the cover star of Hot Press magazine. He garnered much critical acclaim for the release of the Sea Legs mini album