| Name | : | Michael Joseph Harte |
| Born | : | 1973 |
| Nationality | : | Irish |
| National Finals | : | You’re a Star 2003 |
| ESC Entries | : | We’ve got the world (2003) |
| Website | : | http://www.mickeyjoeharte.com/ |
Biography
Mickey Harte is an Irish singer and songwriter.
Mickey Joe Harte started playing the guitar at the age of 13. When he was 18 years old, he wrote his first song, “Candlelight”, inspired by the first Gulf War. However, as a singer/songwriter in the 90s it was hard to get a real breakthrough in Ireland, at that moment the country of the boybands.
After years of struggle, Harte entered the Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) television show You’re a Star. The show set records for Irish TV ratings over the period of November 2002 to March 2003 and Harte came out on top, earning the opportunity to represent Ireland at Eurovision Song Contest 2003. The song, “We’ve got the world”, reached the number one spot in the Irish charts. An album followed.
In 2006, Mickey released his 2nd album “Live and learn”. A year later, he could be seen in a reality television show called “Celebrities go wild”.
It took a few years before Mickey’s third album “Forward to reality” was released. In 2017, we saw the release of the single “For the broken hearted”.
