Frans Cachia l-Budaj tas-Siġġiewi
Frans Cachia Il-Budaj tas-Siġġiewi
is a renowned folk singer, born in Siġġiewi on the 21st August 1955. He is currently considered as one of the foremost folksingers, able to include introspect in his critique, that comments on Maltese socio-realisms, and has a clear crisp voice.
As a young boy he frequented a local village wine shop known as Ċikku tal-Parapett. He acquired his nickname l-Budaj, after the famous Frans Baldacchino l-Budaj, as a taunt when he made attempts to begin folk singing in the beginning of the 1980s at Ħaramija in Triq ir-Ramlija, Siġġiewi. Someone shouted Qisek il-Budaj!
Such as his comments on the widespread abuse illegal boreholes siphoning groundwater from the local aquifer, thereby impoverishing an already scarce resource.
Cachia is a regular at the Għanafest folk festival held every June at the Argotti gardens. He is usually in the folksinger line up for events organized by Mikiel Cutajar Is-Superstar and at times on stage with Joe Grech ta' Raħal Ġdid, as in Bormla in May 2013, where he was pitted in a witful bout with another Siġġiewi-born folk singer, Twanny Coleiro ta' Kulajru.
He also featured in the commemorative folk music event held in December 2012 at the Rialto in Bormla, in memory of former Labour Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. Cachia is considered as a crowd-puller in Maltese għana.
External Links
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76KO_njRxc Żejt iż-Żejtun 2012
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRI-5MAnC3Y&feature=youtu.be Marsaxlokk August 2012
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOIL4Ud9vw Bormla 24 May 2013