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Philip Vella is a Maltese musical composer. He has won the main national festivals of Malta several times such as theMalta Song for Europe, International Festival of Maltese Song (Malta Song Festival) as well asL-Għanja tal-Poplu festival. He has successfully competed in International festivals in the Netherlands (song by 'Ebonique' finishing third in the Eurofestival in 2003), finalist in the Belgian Song for Eurovision competition in 2006, Bulgaria (Best song in the 2003 edition of the Discovery song festival), Czech Republic, Slovenia, Kazakhstan (Best song in 2003 Voice of Asia), Romania (3rd placing in the 2005 edition of the Golden Stag festival) as well as six times representingMalta in the Eurovision Song Contest, placing 2nd in2002 in Estonia with the song "7th Wonder", in2000 in Sweden with the song "Desire", in2004 in Turkey with the song ‘On Again... Off Again’ and in2007 in Finland with the song "Vertigo" that received over 31,000 televotes in Malta. For2008 he composed the song "Vodka" sung byMorena.
He has composed jingles and signature tunes for television and radio, and computer games music. He is responsible for the soundtrack of many popular teleseriels and documentaries shown on the Maltese TV. He is also the current composer of computer game companyBlack Pencil responsible for popular games in Germany such asHarry Buster andSmoke Attack 2. Many of his compositions have been used in various special occasions in Malta such as the anthem used in the official celebrations to mark Malta's entry in the European Union 'Worker of the Year' manifestations, the anthem of theGames of the Small States of Europe held in Malta in 2003,[1] the song to celebrate 'Year of languages' in 2002 and also composed the music for the opening ceremony of theCommonwealth heads of Government meeting, held in Malta under the patronage ofQueen Elizabeth II. Other compositions include the music used for the opening ceremony of St. George's square inValletta, and also the song ‘Dinja Gdida, which is the official song of the Community Chest Fund.
Vella has been nominated several times as Best Composer in the Malta Music Awards, and won the Best Author and Best Recording Engineer Awards.
Vella plays the guitar and has been the musical director/arranger for concerts involving Malta's leading artists.
Vella and his son Sean, a pianist/arranger, form part of a production team working on various genres and music production requirements.
Along withGerard James Borg, Philip Vella has written six Maltese entries for the annualEurovision Song Contest.
