Michael James Down

Michael James Down is a songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] He is best known as a composer and lyricist of several pop songs performed by other artists, many of them in national pre-selections of the Eurovision Song Contest.He has worked with American popstar/rapper Sean Paul, the Japanese girlgroup MAX and in 2018 it was revealed that he'd written six of the songs for Russian pop star Sergey Lazarev's album 'The One' which charted at number 1 in Russia.2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2025
BelfastEurovision Song ContestSean PaulSergey LazarevRussiaJunior Eurovision Song Contest 2022Romania 2012Birgitta HaukdalIceland 2013Mónika HoffmannHungary 2013Latvia 2013Romania 2013Moldova 2013Switzerland SRF internet candidates 2014Daria KinzerFinland 2014Malta 2014Hungary 2014Switzerland RTS qualifiers 2015Switzerland SRF internet candidates 2016Malta 2016Rūta ŠčiogolevaitėLithuania 2016Kimmo BlomFinland 2016NAPOLIBelarus 2017Malta 2017Lithuania 2017Iceland 2017Romania 2017Eleanor CassarMalta 2018Romania 2018Belarus 2018Nina PetkovićMontenegro 2018Lithuania 2018Moldova 2018Iceland 2018Andrea DemirovićMontenegro 2019NicolaRomania 2019Moldova 2019Belarus 2020Romania 2022Lithuania 2022Malta 2023Norway 2023IcelandFabrizio FanielloMihai TraistariuSafuraJiyeon Youth With YouLost Witness GEmma Wu