Michael Patrick Kelly is an Irish-American pop singer, musician, and composer who became an international sensation in the mid-'90s as the youngest member of the folk-pop family band the Kelly Family. After issuing his debut solo album, In Exile, in 2003, Kelly withdrew from the public eye and spent several years living in silence as a monk in a French monastery. His return to the music business in the 2010s has yielded gold- and platinum-selling efforts like Human (2015), iD (2017), B.O.A.T.S (2022), and Traces (2025). He is most popular in Germany and Switzerland.