26-year-old Silvestras Beltė, who uses Silvester Belt as his stage name, was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He graduated from the University of Westminster in London with a degree in Commercial Music Performance.
In 2017, when he was just 19, Silvester took part in the TV talent show Aš – superhitas (‘I Am a Superhit’) which he ended up winning. Following this, he moved to Vilnius and released his debut single ‘Noise’
Having clearly developed a taste for reality TV, he spent time working backstage on the Lithuanian show 2 Barai (‘The Bar’) which is similar to Big Brother in that contestants live together and try to avoid being eliminated for money. However, they also work in a bar. In 2018, he entered the Lithuanian edition of The X Factor and was eliminated in the fourth week.