Donatas Montvydas, known professionally as Donny Montell, was born on October 22, 1987, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a singer who gained prominence through his participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. In March 2012, Montell was selected to represent Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with "Love Is Blind," finishing Fourteenth with Seventy points. Four years later, he won the Lithuanian national final "Eurovizijos 2016" and represented his country again at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with "I've Been Waiting for This Night." He qualified for the final and placed ninth with a total of two hundred points. Montell has also served as a coach on the Lithuanian version of The Voice and participated in the local edition of Danse avec les stars.