Steve Borg (folklorist)
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Steve Borg
is a folklorist and an album producer He was born on the 24th of April at the David Bruce Military Hospital in Imtarfa, and hails from Marsascala.
Produced and presented three television series on National Malta Television, pioneered in world music programmes on Radju Bronja, Malta's cultural radio, having probably Malta's largest collection of world music. Was active with Politeatru productions of works by Chekhov, O'Neill and others.
Co-founded Malta's leading folk band Etnika in 2000, after having identified Malta's oldest known folk melodies at King's College University in London.
In 2006 edited Ruben Zahra's A guide to Maltese folk music, that was awarded Best Production for a non-Maltese language Book in 2007 by the National Book Council. In November 2010 Klabb Kotba Maltin published L-Alkemista, his translation into Maltese of Paulo Coelho's masterwork O Alquimista. He is working on several other publications in Maltese.
Manager of Malta's acclaimed singer-songwriter Walter Micallef and his modern folk sextet Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb, and produced M'Jien Xejn (I am Nothing) in 2003 and Ħamsin (Fifty) in 2007. In 2009 produced another Maltese language album, entitled Ommi (Mother), featuring Doreen Galea as vocalist, melodies by Dominic Galea and involving 14 seasoned musicians, including Ġorġ Puse Curmi, Sammy Murgo, Pawlu Borg and Walter Vella.
Borg was an anchor in the docu-film Etnika: in search of a Lost Voice, shown in several film festivals around Europe. In 2013 he co-produced the album Taqbila with Dominic Galea.
He is co-producing another evocative album of Maltese music for a leading vocalist, due for release by end 2013. Borg won the Malta Music Award in 2001.