My Choice - Joe Grech: Sahha Malta (Goodbye Malta)

At 21 seconds in the video, you'll find a link to see this same video in high definition, 16:9 format. Sahha Malta - a beautiful song by Malta's famous singer, Joe Borg. The singer bids goodbye to Malta telling her he's leaving with tears in his eyes and how he would love to take with him the beautiful sea and sun and stating he'd love to return to enjoy her beauty. Most photos of Malta were taken by Choy Hong (Jasmine) Grech. Joe Grech, a Maltese singer, was born in Cospicua, Malta on 9 February 1934. He married Josephine née' Buttigieg on 24 September 1961. They have a daughter Marcelle, also a versatile singer. At a very early stage in his life, Joe started to play the trumpet with the Zejtun Band Club. His real love was however singing. He was the first singer to win the first Malta Song Festival in 1960, a festival which was organized by the Zghazagh Haddiema Nsara, the local section of the Young Christian Workers. The festival was held at the Radio City Opera House in Hamrun, Malta. Ten songs were presented in the semi final of Thursday 3 November and another ten songs on the semi-final of Friday 4 November. Out of these twenty songs, ten made it to the final night of Saturday 5 November 1960. The Winning Song was Joe Grech's own composition "Vola Uccellino". In 1965 the "Impresa Valente" chose Joe Grech to represent Malta in the Italian Festival of Martina Franca. Another Maltese singer, Tony Agius, also participated in this festival. In those days, it was very rare for a Maltese singer to participate in an Italian festival, let alone win a trophy as the Best Foreign Singer of this Italian festival. The then Italian High Commissioner of Italy for Malta, Signor Antonio Spada, presented a trophy to Joe Grech. In 1967 Joe, managed to establish himself as one of Malta's most popular pop singers. His 45 rpm entitled " Il- Kaccatur", The Hunter, started selling a lot. In the early seventies, Joe successfully toured the London, Scottish and Irish circuits. He also had many successful tours in Canada, America, Italy and Australia. It was during one of these tours in the early seventies that Joe Grech, under the management of Joe Stafrace, recorded a Long Playing Album "Sahha Malta With Joe Grech". The orchestra on this LP was composed mostly of members of the Sydney Opera House orchestra, under the direction of Joe Paparone. Joe performed at the Royal Ballroom of Melbourne, and on the 12 March 1977, Joe gave a spectacular show at the Sydney Opera House. Music is copyrighted by its corresponding owners. No infringement of copyright is meant and if it does infringe, please message me and I'll remove it. ----------------------------------------------------------- Our Youtube Channels are: MYCHOICE MUSIC VIDEOS mychoicegrech1 Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/mychoiceg... mychoicealfred2 Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/mychoicea... mychoicealfred3 Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/mychoicea... mychoicealfred4 Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/mychoicea... mychoicealfred5 Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... mychoicealfred6 Youtube Channel    • **ALL SONGS mychoicealfred6   MALPEN04 MUSIC VIDEOS (Older Channel) malpen04 "My Choice" series MASTER Links: (Music videos) http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... MALPEN04 MISCELLANEOUS (Non music video) http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list... MALTA, MALAYSIA & OTHER (Jasmine's Videos) jasalf5959 Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/JasAlf595...