Sammy Galea
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Sammy Galea (born 15 November 1934) is a Maltese pianist, songwriter and composer from Floriana.
Galea pursued his musical studies at the Conservatorio Santa Ceclia in Rome and at London’s Central School of Jazz Music under Stany Tracy, Bill La Sage, and Jimmy Grant, among others. He is an associate of the London College of Music.
As A performing musician, Galea cruised around the world on board P&O, Cunard, and Pacific Lines (1960-62). He has also been awarded the Bronze Harp for his mood music for Francis Ebejer’s film An Eye To Reckon With while in 1993 he was the first to compose a Maltese musical for children, Il-Ħanut tal-Ġugarelli.
Galea’s long and distinguishes career as song-writer brought him awards at both local and international festivals and competitions and has shown him equally adept at writing for children as for adults. Among the highlights of his career there is the creditabel rating for ’Singing This Song’ obtaind at 1975 Eurovision Song Contest the second prize for instrumental composition with Snapphire at the 1977 Castlebar competion in Ireland, winner of the 1972 Giarre festival with Dimmi che mi vuoi bene lyrics and interpretation by his wife Doreen Galea.
In 1983 he also placed second in the International Malta Song Festival with Jekk Trid. This was latyer places sixth at Bratislava, Galea did well in other festivals competitions in Gibraltar, Italy, Bulgaria, and Ireland, besides many others in Malta. In 1994 he won the forst prize in the Malta Song Festival with his song Forsi and won the song festival organizd by PBS for four consecutive years.
Galea’s Taħt il-Qawsalla has been published and recorded in Zurich by UNICEF, EMI italian recorded his Singing this song and Turin’s Edizione Stream recorded his I Gall della Nonna, Minniec Pejxu was publishd in Bologna, Itlay, when he represted Malta at the Zecchino D’Oro Song Festival. 2nd Prize Festival Internazionale Canzoni Per Ragazzi Vedinotte Battipaglia Italia. He attended a five week programm at Berktee College of Music in USA.
Sammy Galea is married to popular singer Doreen Galea and they have three sons Dominic Galea, Benedict Galea and Manolito Galea.