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Elizabeth Humfrey, better known as BETSY is a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Pembrokeshire. Betsy was raised on a rural goose farm in Nevern, Wales. Her mother bought the goose business next to their home, and it subsequently moved to their house. She became interested in music at a young age as she was so immersed in it: she claims that "[there] was always loads of singing in school and church, plus Eisteddfods. My father and uncle were in a local band so it was a big part of family life".

Although she wanted to pursue music as a career, her parents encouraged her to have a sensible back-up plan, so she enrolled in a course in Womenswear at London's Central St Martins art college. She was later offered an internship at the fashion house Balenciaga, and later spent over a year working at the company designing for their catwalk shows.

Despite this, her passion for music continued to eat away at her, so she eventually left the company and returned to her brother's bedroom in Wales to produce a three-track demo. After sending it out to various industry figures, she received no replies until a friend at her PR firm gave the demo to her later-manager who was looking for female vocalists. After signing her management deal, she was given £500 to write songs for six weeks in her brother's caravan. The same caravan appears in many of her early press shots; Betsy recalls having to clean the caravan for five days as "[some] guy had been living in it before me and he'd only fried everything". After completing a number of songs, her management pitched her to various record labels, and she landed deals with Columbia in the US and Canada and Warner Bros for the rest of the world.

Her solo debut, "Fair", arrived on 22 January 2016 to rave reviews. Its parent EP - similarly titled "Fair" - followed on 18 March 2016.[13] A number of singles - including "Lost & Found", "Wanted More", "Waiting" and "Little White Lies" - preceded her debut self-titled album which was released on 29 September 2017. 

Spain

Pastora Soler will represent RTVE with „La Tormenta“, a song she wrote and composed by herself.

María del Pilar Sánchez Luque (born 28 September 1978 in Coria del Río, Seville), better known by her stage name Pastora Soler, is a Spanish singer. She is also a songwriter and her compositions usually mix copla or flamenco with pop or electronic music.

A precocious chanteuse, she started singing coplas and flamenco songs at several events when she was a child. In 1994 she was signed to the record company Polygram to release her first studio album, Nuestras coplas, which consisted of covers of ten classical copla songs by León or Quiroga.

Pop and commercial sounds arrived in 1996 with her second album, El mundo que soné, which was the last she published with Polygram.

In 1999, she was signed to Emi-Odeón and released her third album, Fuente de luna. This album included her first big hit single, "Dámelo ya", which sold 120,000 copies in Spain and was also a number one hit in Turkey.

In 2001, her fourth album Corazón congelado was published, produced by Carlos Jean. The album received a platinum certification for its sales.

Her fifth album, Deseo (2002), was also produced by Carlos Jean; musically it was closer to electronic music than her previous works. This album was also awarded a platinum certification.

In 2005, she changed record company and signed to Warner Music Spain. Her first studio album with Warner, Pastora Soler, produced by Danilo Ballo and recorded in Madrid and Milan, included more mature music and themes. Its first promotional single "Sólo tú" was a dramatic ballad. The album received a gold certification for its sales. Her seventh studio album, Toda mi verdad, was released in 2007. Recorded in Tarifa and produced by Jacobo Calderón, it consisted mostly of compositions by Antonio Martínez-Ares. The album peaked at number thirteen in the official Spanish album chart and received the Premio de la Música (Spanish Music Award) for Best Copla Album. The tour that followed the release of the album took her to Egypt, where she performed at the Cairo Opera House. In February 2009, her single "Bendita locura" was released, the single that gives title to the same titled studio album. It peaked at number eight in the official Spanish album chart. Her ninth studio album was released in October 2011, Una mujer como yo, including twelve new tracks. It was produced by Pablo Pinilla. The album debuted at number #3 on the Spanish album chart.

On 21 December 2011 she was selected internally by RTVE to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The song "Quédate conmigo", penned by Thomas G:son, Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson and Erik Bernholm, was chosen as her entry in a special live show on 3 March. On 26 May 2012 she finished 10th in the Eurovision final with 97 points. Commercially, "Quédate conmigo" ranked at number 35 on the year-end Spanish singles chart.

On 10 September 2013 Soler released her tenth studio album, Conóceme, produced by Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson. The album was preceded by its first single, "Te despertaré", which was released on 22 July 2013 and debuted at number 17 on the Spanish Singles Chart. The album debuted at number 2 on the Spanish Album Chart.

On 1 February 2017, Soler announced through her social media that she had ended her break from music career and that she would start recording a new studio album, produced by Pablo Cebrián. Her eleventh studio album, titled La calma, was released on 15 September 2017. It debuted at number 1 on the Spanish Album Chart, her first number one with Warner ever.

Soler married choreographer Francis Viñolo on 17 October 2009. Together they have a daughter, Estrella (born 15 September 2015).

Sweden

SVT has announced that musician Paul Rey will represent Sweden at this year's competition. He will perform „What Good Is Love“, written and composed by Paul Rey, Max Thulin, Gavin Jones and Pontus Persson.

Paul Rey (Pauli Jokela), born May 23, 1992 in Lund, is a Swedish soloist with a record contract with Warner Music Sweden. Paul Rey was born and raised in Lund . His mother fled from Chile's dictatorship to start a new life in Paris in 1973, then to attend a student exchange program in Lund. That's where she met Paul's dad, as he was on Finland's exchange program. He grew up in a music-rich home filled with classic albums from the 60's to the early 80's.

In 2015, Paul Rey was signed to Epic Records in the United States and released his debut EP "Good As Hell" that year. He came into contact with Quincy Jones, who is now his mentor. In February, he released the single "California Dreaming"   together with Arman Cekin and the world star Snoop Dogg via Warner Music Sweden. Then he released the single "All Falls Down" on May 5, 2017, written by Paul together with Andreas Roos, Martin René and John Alexis.