Gerard James Borg is a
Maltese songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...
,
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
, and concept creator.
He is well known for writing multiple songs that competed in the
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
.
Borg has written six of the Maltese entries for the annual Eurovision Song Contest with
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
Philip Vella
Philip Vella is a Maltese musical composer. He has won the main national festivals of Malta several times such as the Malta Song for Europe, International Festival of Maltese Song ( Malta Song Festival) as well as L-Għanja tal-Poplu festival. He ...
.
Their song "7th Wonder" sung by
Ira Losco
Ira Losco M.Q.R. (born 31 July 1981) is a Maltese pop singer. Her career breakthrough came in 2002, when she represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "7th Wonder". She placed second in the competition, Malta's best ...
gave Malta 2nd place in the contest. This was the first time Malta reached 2nd place and it is the country's best result in the contest so far, alongside the 2nd place earned by
Chiara with the song "Angel" in 2005.
Borg and Vella also penned the song "Reaching Higher" as the official theme for the 2003
Games of the Small States of Europe
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which were held in Malta that year. Some of their compositions have also done well in foreign charts.
Borg has also co-written the song "Shine" which represented Russia in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest and wrote songs for several national finals in other countries which include France, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Borg has also written blog-style articles for the''
Times of Malta
The ''Times of Malta'' is an English-language daily newspaper in Malta. Founded in 1935, by Lord and Lady Strickland and Lord Strickland's daughter Mabel, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in Malta. It has the widest circu ...
'',
and some of his fashion designs appeared on the German fashion publication
Burda.
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest entries
*''
Desire
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'' by
Claudette Pace
Claudette Buttigieg (née Pace, 8 February 1968) is a Maltese member of parliament, Deputy Speaker, and former TV presenter and singer.
Personal life and Eurovision Song Contest
Born in Naxxar, she won the Malta Song For Europe festival in Januar ...
(
Malta 2000)
*''
7th Wonder'' by
Ira Losco
Ira Losco M.Q.R. (born 31 July 1981) is a Maltese pop singer. Her career breakthrough came in 2002, when she represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "7th Wonder". She placed second in the competition, Malta's best ...
(
Malta 2002)
*''
On Again... Off Again'' by
Julie & Ludwig (
Malta 2004)
*''
Vertigo
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'' by
Olivia Lewis
Olivia Lewis (born 18 October 1978) is a singer from Qormi, Malta.
She has competed in the Malta Song For Eurovision festival, which selects the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest several times. At her 11th attempt she finally ...
(
Malta 2007)
*''
Vodka
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'' by
Morena
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G ...
(
Malta 2008)
*''
Shine'' by
Tolmachevy Twins (
Russia 2014)
*''
Breathlessly
Malta participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Breathlessly" written by Philip Vella, Sean Vella and Gerard James Borg. The song was performed by Claudia Faniello. The Maltese entry for the 2017 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine was ...
'' by
Claudia Faniello
Claudia Faniello (born 25 February 1988) is a Maltese singer. She represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Breathlessly"
She came 3rd with the song Gmielek in the maltese festival MuzikaMuzika 2022
Biography
Earl ...
(
Malta 2017)
National final entries
Publications
Gerard James Borg has published 5 novels.
* ''Sliema Wives'' (2013)
* ''Madliena Married Men'' (2015)
* ''Bormla Babes: Behind the Scenes'' (2017)
* ''Tigné Point Bachelors'' (2019)
* ''Sliema Wives: The New Breed'' (2021)
Borg's
debut novel
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''Sliema Wives'' is a local best seller and it peaked at number one after one week of its release.
Part of the proceeds from the book were donated to local charity Puttinu Cares. Similarly, ''Madliena Married Men'' also reached the number one spot in the local bestseller list.
References
External links
Official facebook site
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Maltese songwriters
Melodi Grand Prix composers
English-language lyricists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
English-language writers from Malta
Maltese male novelists
21st-century Maltese novelists