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from

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Background

Candelas released their first EP ''Kim Y Syniad'' in 2011. Since being signed to the label I Ka Ching in 2013 they have released two albums and three singles. Their first album featured songs in both

and

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and their second album is entirely sung in Welsh. In February 2014, the band won three ''Y Selar'' awards for best

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song, best long record and best band. They won best Welsh language band again in February 2015, also winning the best artwork prize. Their album ''Bodoli'n Ddistaw'' was shortlisted for the 2015 Welsh-language album of the year. In 2016 the band recorded a cover of Yr Anhrefn's ''Rhedeg i Paris'' (''Running to Paris'' in English), described as the "anthem of the Summer", to celebrate the Wales football team reaching the

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. The band have played at numerous music festivals across Wales such as Festival Number 6, Maes B, and

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which they headlined in 2016 and again in 2017 after

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pulled out. In 2017, the band were reported to be recording their first English-language EP and a third album, which was released in 2018 titled ''Wyt Ti'n Meiddio Dod i Chwarae'' following two singles. The band's drummer, Lewis Williams, won ''best instrumentalist'' at the 2013 Y Selar awards for his work in Candelas and

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Discography

Singles

Albums and EPs

References

External links

Candelas BBC Wales Horizons pageArtist page on I Ka Ching WebsiteBBC Music page
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