Glasgow-born Bobby McVay came an impressive sixth in the Eurovision song contest in 1993 with the band Sweet Dreams.
Now, the 61-year-old is working in a phone shop in Wales, as he admits not winning was a "huge loss" after he and his group performed the song "Never Giving Up" at Munich’s Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle arena.
The former Eurovision star was part of the studio group Sweet Dreams with Carrie Gray and Helen Kray.
Sweet Dreams lost out on the competition, beaten by Nicole from Luxembourg, with her song Ein bißchen Frieden.
Looking back on that period of his life - 40 years on - Bobby describes the experience as "special" reports Wales Online.
He adds that the "highs and lows of the music industry are crazy".
McVay, who was picked up by a dance band while singing in his back garden in Glasgow when he was a teen, was plucked from panto to join Sweet Dream.
Following his Eurovision success, McVay got involved with radio which he says "felt like a little bit of showbiz".
In 2008, he performed his final programme with Real Radio, before jetting off to Italy to start a new life.
On the day he left the UK, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan, and Jay Asto, called him to to ask if he would join a Bucks Fizz reunion group, called The Fizz.
He said: "I’d been friends with Mike for years – long before The Fizz we shared a flat together in London and Bucks Fizz were also managed by Razzmatazz.
"Cheryl rang me and I told her the timing was appalling because I was off to the south of Italy where I’d planned to spend the rest of my life."
He spent seven years in Calabria on the south coast of Italy when Mike called him again and asked if he would reconsider joining the band.
After agreeing he spent the next three years living between Calabria and the UK, whilst touring with The Fizz.
In 2021, following stress with Covid and Brexit, McVay moved back to Wales and started working for Get Connected after his boss mistook him for Bobby G.
He said: "I only work here because they thought I was Bobby G from Bucks Fizz.
"I had the video interview and then the face-to-face interview and the boss said he wasn’t sure.
"They told him I was in Bucks Fizz and he said: ‘Bobby from Bucks Fizz? Give him the job!’”
And whilst he has confessed he is no longer a huge Eurovision fan, he said his money is on Finland to win.
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