 Nicholas Caruana was born on 7 September 1963 in Malta, he later performed under the name Nicky Bomba.His father, Nicholas "Nicol" Caruana (born 4 June 1933) and mother, Iris (born 8 October 1934) had four children, Josephine, Michael, Carmen and Nicholas, in Malta.The family migrated to Australia in late 1964 and lived in the Melbourne suburb of Newport.