Origin Qormi, Malta Occupation(s) Singer, student Genre Pop music | Genres Pop Years active 2009–present | |
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Born July 3, 1998 (age 18) ( 1998-07-03 ) Similar Stefan Galea, Ludwig Galea, Glen Vella, Claudia Faniello, Deborah C | ||
Sebastian calleja golden boy
Sebastian Calleja (born 3 July 1998) is a Maltese singer. He started his singing career at the age of 11. He studied voice and in March 2016 he placed 1st in the Trinity College of London vocal exam. His vocal coach is Glen Vella. Calleja is a resident singer on 'Hadd Ghalik' which is aired on the national Maltese television channel TVM. He also played main roles in various musicals on the local stage, including 'Aida', 'Rumpilstilskin', 'Barnuza Blu', 'Katrin tal-Imdina', 'The Pantomime Sossy u Tezor Mitluf', 'Carmen', 'Dracula' and 'Star Child'. In 2016, he also was chosen (together with other 5 local singers) to be part of the song and music video for the Maltese version of the World Youth Day Song 2016 - 'Henjin li jhennu'.
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San Remo Junior
Sebastian Calleja debuted in the Maltese selections for the San Remo Junior Contest in 2014 with the cover version of Ronan Keating's song 'If tomorrow never comes'. He was chosen as one of the finalist to represent Malta in Italy's San Remo Junior. In Sanremo, Italy he was one of the finalists in the competition where he competed with other singers from various countries around Europe.
The following year, in 2015, he was invited as a guest (together with the other singers who participated in San Remo Junior 2014) to perform again during the 2015 San Remo Junior. For this occasion he performed his version of 'Cara Mia' together with the Artemocion Malta dancers.
Microfono D'Oro
Sebastian Calleja was also chosen from the Maltese selections to represent Malta in the Microfono D'Oro 2014, held in Mirandola, Italy, with the cover version of Paolo Meneguzzi's song 'Era Stupendo', where he placed 2nd from 25 competing artists from different countries.
OGAE Eurovision Song Contest Berlin
Sebastian Calleja was chosen to represent Malta in the OGAE Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Berlin. He won this event by performing his version of 'Golden Boy'. He placed 1st with the jury's votes and 2nd in the viewers votes, giving him the overall winning score of 216, leaving Portugal in 2nd place with 205 and Italy in 3rd with 172 points.
The OGAE Germany held this event in Berlin, Germany, with the partner fan club of The Netherlands, with pre-conferences and parties, with the main event on the 16th July. 12 singers competed to win this event, each representing different countries but the general idea is to spend a whole weekend together with the Eurovision Community, have parties as well as a Gala, get together and meet the other fans and celebrate Eurovision.
OGAE Eurovision Cruise Helsinki Finland
Sebastian Calleja after winning the OGAE Eurovision Song Contest in Berlin Germany was invited to sing at the Eurovision Cruise in Helsinki Finland to Tallinn Estonia.
During the cruise he performed his winning song ‘Golden Boy’ and 2 other songs which he covered. Amongst other performers there was Eurovision Song Contest 2012 winner Loreen with her song Euphoria.
He was also invited to sing during another cruise which was organised for the said event, and also performed at the very popular ‘Hercules Club’ in Helsinki. He has also performed some songs in Maltese, one of them being his version of the song ‘Nghix biss ghalik’ which originally is of his vocal coach Glen Vella
Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza (KKI) 2016 (Independence Day Music Festival)
Sebastian Calleja took part in the Independence Day Music Festival 2016, he submitted 3 original songs against a total of 60 songs competing, all 3 songs made it to the top 20 for the final competition but every singer is only allowed to compete with 1 song, and his song which took more points was 'Bla Firdiet' (No Divisions). The final was on the 19th September 2016, at The Granaries in Floriana, Malta which was aired live on NET Television (Malta). Sebastian Calleja placed 9th in tied points with 3 other artists.
Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Sebastian Calleja entered the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in preparation for the great Eurovision Song Contest 2017 event which will be held in Ukraine. Sebastian's song Escape went through the first stage entering the Top 60 from 150 songs, but unfortunately he did not make it in the final Top 16 from which the song which will represent Malta will be chosen.
Charity
Sebastian Calleja always tries to do his part in helping others. This year he was one of the singer for the cd 'Helu Bambin 3' which raises funds for the 'Dar tal-Providenza' (a home for the impaired persons). Sebastian also released a song in Maltese calle 'L-Ghadu Tieghi', which a cd and dvd with the music video are placed for sale with all proceeding going to the Malta Community Chest Fund, organisation to help people in need which is run by The President of Malta.
Apart from the many times he was invited to perform for free in fundraising events during the year, one which he is invited regularly is at Correctional Facility events which are organized regularly for the inmates.