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Coyle Girelli

singer/songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ19668178
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Coyle Girelli is a British and American recording artist, multi-platinum selling songwriter, composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, theater producer and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and CEO of music company Calm and Collected Music Group and CAC Music Publishing and is the founder of entertainment production company Goldfire Productions, as well as being involved in several other business ventures.

Formerly frontman of alternative rock bands Your Vegas and The Chevin he released his debut solo album, Love Kills, in 2018. He has written songs for BTS, Daisy the Great, Robin Schulz, Westlife and many others and co-composed songs for the record breaking French musicals Robin des Bois and Les Trois Mousquetaires. His sophomore solo album Funland was released in February 2022 to critical acclaim and his third solo album "Museum Day" released in autumn 2023. His fourth solo album "Out Of This Town" was released on Sun Records in 2025 and featured a collection of songs written with legendary songwriter Mac Davis.

Early life

Girelli grew up in Otley, West Yorkshire. There he attended Prince Henry's Grammar School where he met the 3 other founding members of Your Vegas.

Girelli attended University of Leeds, completing a degree in Law and Criminology.

Music career

Your Vegas 2005–2011

Girelli, along with Mat Steel, Jon Langford, Mal Taylor and Mark Heaton, formed alternative rock band Your Vegas in 2005 while studying at Leeds University.

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