Ludwig Galea
Ludwig Galea was born on 26 November 1977. Ludwig Galea is one of Malta’s most loved pop tenors. He received his early musical and vocal instructions under his uncle, former Maestro Di Cappella of St. John’s Co Cathedral Rev. Alberto Borg OSA.
His first appearance was in the year 2000 at the 'Festival ghaz-zghazagh 2000'(engl.: 'Festival for youths') wherein he placed third with a song which he himself composed entitled 'All you ever need'.
Ludwig Galea performed in the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2004. As one half of the duo "Julie & Ludwig", he and his singing partner (and by then, real-partner too), Julie Zahra, managed to qualify to the final and came 12th out of 36 countries competing. Their song, "On Again... Off Again," recorded in Germany,was just in the top 12, so Malta were automatically qualified for the 2005 contest in Kiev, Ukraine in May 2005.
Together with Julie, Ludwig entered various local and international song festivals with the songs, "Adagio", "Endlessly", "My Number One", "Sebat Ilwien" and of course, the Maltese Eurovision entry for 2004, "On Again...Off Again". They also participated in the Golden Stage (Romania) with the cover-version of the Romanian Eurovision 2002 entry, "Tell Me Why".
His singing credits includes performing during the closing ceremony of America’s soap opera “As The World Turns” in Holland, European Sports Award 2013, Ludwig Live in Concert in Australia 2012, “My Music” Ludwig Live in Concert on M-Sat TV in Bulgaria, Supporting Act with Simply Red at the concert in Malta, The Eurovision Song Contest (Turkey) with the song “On Again Off Again”, “Helu Bambin” local Christmas hit song, “Three for One” New Year’s gala concert held in Bulgaria with the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, “Independence” official song for Common Wealth Heads Of Government Meeting held in Malta, “Fil-Port Ma L-Ewropej” Official song for Malta accession into the European Union, Performance in the EU Parliament in Brussels, Performance at the “Premio Top Sprint” the yearly event that awards Sicilian personalities in Sicily, Italy; performance in Jerusalem during the world religions peace rally, “Les Missaigonguerre” highlights from Shonberg and Boublil’s masterpieces with the Maltese National Orchestra, Jesus Christ Superstar (playing Jesus), Andrew Lloyd Webber And Cameron Mackintosh … THE TRIBUTE, 1565 The Musical (Playing Polastron), From Screen To Stage (Playing Christian in Moulin Rouge), “Romanza” Julie and Ludwig un-plugged at Saint James Cavallier, ‘Mega Hit Festival’ in Turkey obtaining second prize for the song ‘Mood Swing’, and ‘Discovery Festival’ in Bulgaria obtaining first prize for the song ‘Endlessly’.
In 2012 he was knighted by the Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.
Ludwig has been a resident singer on the popular TV program “Sas-Sitta” for the past six years.