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FABRIZIO FANIELLO: BIOGRAPHY

20-year-old Fabrizio Faniello has been a performer since the age of nine, taking part in various song festivals and appearing on stage in Malta in musicals such as Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Magic Of The Musicals, Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat and Fiddler On The Roof. He has won an impressive series of prestigious awards not just in Malta, but also overseas where he has competed in numerous festivals, doing very well in Bratislava, Kazakhstan and Prague. In the mid-1990s, he put his singing career on hold for three years, to play football with Sliema Wanderers and later with the National team in the under 16 and 17s. He is also a popular TV presenter and his programmes including Generation Y, Puka and Filghodu ma’ Antonella. He is currently seen co-presenting with the PBS Saturday afternoon programme Niltaqghu s-Sibt.

When he won the Malta Song for Europe 2001 festival with Another Summer Night, Malta's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2001, he said, "I have entered the [local] festival four times, and twice before I came second. I am very happy to have won and excited to be representing Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest. I would like to thank all my fans, the fantastic audience who were present at the festival and all the people who voted for me through the televoting system. Without them, I would not be here."

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