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Ashley Hicklin (born 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. He co-owns Unified-Songs, a UK based music publishing/management company and has written songs for artists such as Tiësto, Oliver Heldens, R3hab, Hardwell, Timmy Trumpet, Lost Kings, Feder, Duncan Laurence, and Waylon, including more than ten No.1 chart releases and over twenty Top-10 chart releases.

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Ashley Hicklin
Birth name	Ashley Hicklin
Born	1985 (age 36–37)
Origin	Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, record producer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	1999–present
Labels	EMI (2008–) Warner Music (2010–)
Website	unified-songs.com

Biography

Early life

Ashley Hicklin was raised in his parents’ pub on the North-East coast of England in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He first began as a singer-songwriter performing at open mic nights in the pub, at the age of 13.[1][2]

As a writer

In 2008, the European CEO of EMI Publishing (Peter Ende) saw a live video of Hicklin performing for BBC Introducing.[2] Hicklin signed a deal with EMI Publishing and in less than six months had co-written several chart hits for other artists across Europe, including Johan Palm's single Emma-lee which reached No. 1 in Sweden.[3][4]

Hicklin went on to collaborate with the teams behind Lana Del Rey, Felix Jaehn, Tiësto, Natasha Bedingfield, James Morrison, Hurts, Amy Winehouse, Sugababes and various other international acts.[2] Hicklin is very active in the dance music scene as a writer and vocalist under the moniker Bright Sparks.[5] Notable releases include the Tiësto song On My Way, the Hardwell song Summer Air, the Feder song Keep Us Apart, the Oliver Heldens song Somebody, the Klingande song Messiah, the Timmy Trumpet song Friday and Lost Kings release Feather.[6]

Eurovision entries

Hicklin has written the following Eurovision Song Contest entries:

Year	Country	Song	Artist	Writers	Final	Points	Semi	Points
2010	Belgium	"Me and My Guitar"	Tom Dice	Hicklin, Tom Eeckhout, Jeroen Swinnen	6	143	1	167
2014		"Mother"	Axel Hirsoux	Hicklin, Rafael Artesero	Failed to qualify		14	28
2019	Lithuania	"Run with the Lions"	Jurij Veklenko	Hicklin, Eric Lumiere, Pele Loriano			11	93
2020	Spain	"Universo"	Blas Cantó	Hicklin, Blas Cantó, Dan Hammond, Dangelo Ortega, Mikołaj Trybulec	Contest cancelled
2021	Austria	"Amen"	Vincent Bueno	Hicklin, Tobias Carshey, Jonas Thander	Failed to qualify		12	66
2022	Poland	"River"	Ochman	Hicklin, Krystian Ochman, Adam Wiśniewski, Mikołaj Trybulec	12	151	6	198

In 2018, Hicklin wrote two songs for the UK's national selection Eurovision: You Decide. "You" performed by Jaz Ellington and "Astronaut", which was sung by Liam Tamne.

As a publisher

In 2015, Hicklin co-founded Unified Songs, an independent music publisher and management company based in Edinburgh. They have residential recordings studios where they regularly host songwriting camps.[7]

References

External links

• www.unified-songs.com

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