Wednesday, March 24, 2010

JOE JULIAN FARRUGIA


JOE JULIAN FARRUGIA, writer / lyricist, from Malta introduced his works in public in the mid 90’s and has successfully taken a regular part in local song contests and was voted Best Lyricist on various occasions. Several of his songs were chosen as televison programmes’ signature tunes.
His lyrics stepped into the international fora and in 1999 his song Jekk Ghada ma Jisbahx was chosen by American Airlines to be played whenever a passenger requested to listen to music from Malta. The same song was also highlighted in Fred Bronson’s Pop Goes the World on worldwide Music Choice digital radio from the U.S. In international song contests, Joe Julian won no less than 9 festivals in Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. One of the mentioned contests earned him a Diploma from  the University of Florence. In 2008, a song of his reached the Bulgarian final of the selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2005, his song Life is a Train was released by NBT Records (U.S.) in a compilation disc sold in three continents.
Joe Julian is a regular writer on Maltese newspapers and magazines. He was a regular contributor in a Sunday Maltese newspaper for 4 years writing articles about Maltese famous people of the past. He works also on television and produced various transmissions ranging from variety shows, magazine programmes and social productions. He also pens public relations articles for production houses and television stations. He used to write drama for television too with some 50 episodes in different teleserials and sitcoms. He is presently producing, directing and script-writing episodes for television programme Bijografiji.
Joe Julian is married to Marlene. they have two daughters; Clara and Valentina.

Note:
Joe Julian Farrugia has very kindly agreed to share with us on this Blog his list of Articles on Maltese Personalities and for this we are very greatly full. This is in line with my idea of promoting internationally our culture and arts.
His articles on local artists and sculptors will appear in future postings 
LIST OF ARTICLES 

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