Daniel Amalm (born 16 February 1979) is an Australian actor and musician.

Early life

Amalm's mother is Maltese and his father is Swedish. Amalm's father introduced him to guitar from an early age. Amalm's first performances were as a busker in

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with his brother where they were spotted by

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's tour manager and invited to Benson's sound check. The Amalm brothers jammed with George Benson and after the jam Benson donated his own money towards a new guitar that the brothers had been saving for. With that guitar Daniel Amalm won a scholarship to study guitar at the

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and was trained in classical guitar under Julian Byzantine. Amalm performed as one of the guitarists in "An Angel Moves Too Fast To See" written by Rhys Chatham for 100 electric guitars for the Brisbane Biennial on 4–5 June 1993. Amalm was runner up in the 9th Australian Classical Spanish Guitar Competition.http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=117827259 My Space

Career

Daniel's first television appearance was in the role of Jack Wilson in television soap opera ''

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'' and he was nominated for a 'Most Popular New Talent

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' in 1995. In 1996, Amalm left ''Home and Away'' and recorded a single, '

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', which was a top 21 hit on the

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and No.5 on the Dance Charts; followed by 'Honey Dip Girl', which was voted No. 1 on

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's Video Hits for 5 consecutive weeks. In 2000, he returned to ''Home and Away'' for a guest appearance and also appeared in ''All Saints'' and ''

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''. Daniel has worked as a music teacher in classical, flamenco and rock guitar. He has performed the live circuit with various Latin/Rock covers & originals bands and wrote with Alternative/Metal band OP25. Daniel's Brother Jacob plays drums in OP25. The band contributed to the original motion picture soundtrack of 'Two Fists One Heart' with a song calle
'Like No Other'
Daniel appeared in the

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drama series ''

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'' in 2008 as Melbourne underworld figure,

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. He also starred in the Australian film ''

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'' which was released 19 March 2009 and ''

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'' released July 2009. In 2009, Amalm began a regular role in drama series '' Rescue: Special Ops'' as Jordan Zwitkowski on the

and co-hosted FOX8's adaptation of the boxing reality series '' The Contender''. Daniel released an ambient classical guitar album in 2019 title
Guitared - Daniel Amalm
and a progressive flamenco album in 2020 title
Kaldera - Kaldera

Television

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Film

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Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

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Daniel Amalm on Spotify
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amalm, Daniel 1979 births Australian male television actors Australian male child actors Living people Australian people of Maltese descent Australian people of Swedish descent Australian dance musicians Male actors from Brisbane People educated at MacGregor State High School Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University alumni