The Busker was founded in 2012 by guitarist Dario Genovese and percussionist Jean Paul Borg. Two years later, bassist David Grech and saxophonist Sean Meachen joined them. The group gets its inspiration for songs mainly from music from the sixties and bands like The Beatles and The Beach Boys. In 2017 The Busker released a first album. Genovese left the band in 2021.

At the beginning of 2023, the group took part in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, the Maltese preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The Busker won the final with the song Dance (our own party), allowing it to represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, UK.