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Pace's foray as a folksinger wasn't remarkable. He was invited to folk sing at Il-Qajjenza in Birżebbuġa at [[Pawlu Degabriele Il-Bies]]'s shack but stopped half way through due to stage fright. He was encouraged to give it another go, this time in Il-Belt il-Ġdida at the bar run by folk guitarist Fredu Grech Il-Irixx, incidentally also from Tarxien, with three noted folksingers - [[Żeppi Meli Ta' Sika]], [[Fredu Abela Il-Bamboċċu]] and [[Ċikku Degiorgio Tal-Fjuri]], and he fared well. | Pace's foray as a folksinger wasn't remarkable. He was invited to folk sing at Il-Qajjenza in Birżebbuġa at [[Pawlu Degabriele Il-Bies]]'s shack but stopped half way through due to stage fright. He was encouraged to give it another go, this time in Il-Belt il-Ġdida at the bar run by folk guitarist Fredu Grech Il-Irixx, incidentally also from Tarxien, with three noted folksingers - [[Żeppi Meli Ta' Sika]], [[Fredu Abela Il-Bamboċċu]] and [[Ċikku Degiorgio Tal-Fjuri]], and he fared well. | ||
Pace has written four folk ballads, his favourite being one of sixty stanzas about Jesus Christ, which he has sung twice - one on Net Television and another in the residence of [[Fredu Abela Iż-Żejtuni]] | Pace has written four folk ballads, his favourite being one of sixty stanzas about Jesus Christ, which he has sung twice - one on Net Television and another in the residence of [[Fredu Abela Iż-Żejtuni]]; a ballad in remembrance of Leli Il-Bugazz and another about a blind girl. His favourite folk ballad is [[Pawlu Seychell Il-Għannej]] | ||
Revision as of 17:53, 31 July 2013
Salvu Pace Is-Sulari
was born on the 2nd February 1947. He hails from Tarxien and was considered as one of the għana stalwarts of the mid-Seventies and Eighties.
Maltese have a habit of describing someone quite the opposite of what he is, and he earned the nickname Is-Sulari, literally 'storeys', due to his diminutive size when compared with the more corpulent singers like Pawlu Degabriele Il-Bies and Żeppi Meli Ta' Sika.
As a young ten-year old boy Salvu used to spend time in the fields of Tal-Bajjad, nowadays Santa Luċija, with his shepherd friend tending goats - Tarxien was noted for its goats - and it was here that he practiced his first lines.
He grew up in the folk music environment, tailing his maternal uncle is Leli Azzopardi Il-Bugazz to events all over Malta, but mostly at Lucy Casha's outlet in Il-Belt il-Ġdida, Ġolin Axisa Ta' Kostanza, Fredu Abela Il-Bamboċċu's brother in Żabbar and at Karmena tal-Marsa, where Sunday late afternoon sessions were held as soon as the horseraces were over. This exposed him to Żeppi Meli Ta' Sika, Pawlu Seychell Il-Għannej and Salvu Darmanin Ir-Ruġel. The latter is his favourite folksinger, due to his lyrical content.
Pace's foray as a folksinger wasn't remarkable. He was invited to folk sing at Il-Qajjenza in Birżebbuġa at Pawlu Degabriele Il-Bies's shack but stopped half way through due to stage fright. He was encouraged to give it another go, this time in Il-Belt il-Ġdida at the bar run by folk guitarist Fredu Grech Il-Irixx, incidentally also from Tarxien, with three noted folksingers - Żeppi Meli Ta' Sika, Fredu Abela Il-Bamboċċu and Ċikku Degiorgio Tal-Fjuri, and he fared well.
Pace has written four folk ballads, his favourite being one of sixty stanzas about Jesus Christ, which he has sung twice - one on Net Television and another in the residence of Fredu Abela Iż-Żejtuni; a ballad in remembrance of Leli Il-Bugazz and another about a blind girl. His favourite folk ballad is Pawlu Seychell Il-Għannej