Gensna mary spiteri in europe

Mary Spiteri was an exception. Anyhow, if one is in Malta, where does one expect to sing? Is Joseph Calleja — though he risks now going down that route…]. Parents were invasive, controlling, religious and imposed chaperoning on their daughters. This menage was out in the open and was extraordinary for the times. Joseph Calleja is of a different generation and in a completely business: opera traditional opera not the more adventurous modern repertoire.

If she were brilliant she would have been famous. Brilliance in the performing arts is measured by worldwide, not local, fame. Not by any normal yardstick, by which I do not mean the fawning Norman Hamilton types. And please, Joe Fenech, it is not easy to be headhunted even today, 25 years of feel-good propaganda notwithstanding. Nothing can be further from the truth than that.

Talent is a prerequisite in the arts business, but there is no magic formula that guarantees success. Factors such as attitude, right encounters, contacts, being at the right place at the right time, geography… carry a lot of weight. Oh yes, right. I used to labour under that illusion too, viz. Anyone who is truly brilliant is successful and famous.

Gensna mary spiteri in europe

But undiscovered genius and brilliance? I already said: there is no magic formula. Why does everybody insist on spelling my name wrong? You, of all people, should know better. There are plenty of village Napoleons, village Aristotles and village Einsteins too. They are clapping at the capture of yet another scalp. Ms Spiteri is supposed to stand by a piano while Ms Losco is supposed to run around and jump on stage.

Why should we pass through hell to enter heaven? Now you can look at it at a hundred and one ways and find your thornstwist and turn but ultimately no one really cares. And although i am not a fan of 7th wonder once againi cannot erase the facts which once again point at the same artist you are trying very hard to same something negative about. And i challenge what you wrote here coz coz i heard quite a healthy clap during the intro by FCN when Eddie was mentioned during the EU membership.

Nahseb ma Ftehmnix ta ;- The Beauty of hiding behind your lap top screen. The 80s tougher than it is today??? Big Deal. This is song in the hearts of all those whose political choice is labour especially the old generations. Were they wearing Mary Spiteri T-shirts? Preciselyshe was singing to a totally different audience. How can I see someone who wants to be seen as hip and energetic, singing in an evening dress by a piano under dim lights?

Howard, you let yourself to be manipulated by the organisers. There was Lou around, I believe, and that explains it all. Are you coming to watch and applaud Brian May and give the cold shoulder to the imposed Winter Moods front man? As far back as her Cafe Premier days, Mary Spiteri was a good mimic, she could hit the right note and hold it. She sang well known ballads that belonged to singers like Shirley Bassey, Barbara Streisand, Dusty Springfield and other famous divas.

I am not sure she would have got anywhere without interpreting very well known songs belonging to very well known singers. Mary Spiteri might not have got anywhere, not because of lack of talent, but simply because Malta was cut off from the planet. The government she supported. Well, she could have done so too. Instead, she preferred to stay on in Malta, living off a rich and married man for the rest of his life while he continued to live with his wife and she lived with her father.

You can hardly call that being a victim of the mores of the time, because few people did that sort of thing back then. Ira Losco, however, was born almost 2 generations later in a now EU country where are opportunities are there to grab, but she prefers the poisoned-apple cosiness that Malta offers. They would have preferred their daughters to be settled with a married man than go into showbiz abroad.

For the parents you describe, adultery was the path to hell and damnation, and flagrant adultery was the cause of the worst thing that could happen to you in a village: having your daughter gossiped about as a whore, which is exactly how that sort of thing was viewed. Says Joe Fenech who is another deluded commentator. To start off with one is a performer.

Ira writes her music. In this business people are called producers, managers, singers, composers, arrangers and so forth. Trust me. Whether you think of Ms. I was trying to educate you as to how an artist gets to wear different hats when it comes to creating and performing. That was my point. I tend to agree with you at least on something that the word ART is misused at times.

Industry perception however is what it is. I would understand Mary and her feelings towards Gensna as that must have brought back the memories of the only opportunity that existed for her and which gave her the exposure she needed to attract the larger Maltese audience. That Ira, intakes part, is well, beyond me. And Mary would be refusing concerts like Gensna.

She would have been our own interpretation of Shirley Bassey abroad. Sadly for Mary, she was born in the wrong Era. The opportunities offered to good singers these days are much greater than Gensna. Check the album credits on Accident Prone. The publishing was Murlyn and a year later the publishers asked if they could use the track for her album to which the rights were transfered.

Do you know how many tracks Madonna is credited on where she never wrote a note on? Capital letters insinuate you are shouting, so if you ask nicely i might be even tempted to answer you. Take a nice deep breath, relax, write and make sense. Obviously the capitol letters are not shouting. They are there for you to read carefully and think hard,to grab you distorted short attention span.

I noticed that the musical arrangements are not the original. Text aside, the music was the gensna mary spiteri in europe example of something approaching progressive rock. Now they made it sound like one of those tedious secondary school musicals one comes across in the UK and the USA. Seems like you are a good critic with regards to singers and musical arrangements from the numerous comments you left.

Please be so kind to let us know when your next concert is due so I book early. Do you think the music business is just singers and bands? Are you one of those who think that people who left Malta decades ago were all making a living out pimping? And here you go again. How certain are you that the audience there were All laborites? Nobody else would be able to stand it.

It has gone through 63 performances and stood the test of time for the same reason the Labour Party has: Malta is a largely undeveloped society and people are undiscriminating. No, obviously not and your comparison does not make sense. But we should most definitely not be expected to go to performances of Hitlerian gensna mary spiteri in europe and applaud them, nor should we expect, any time soon, to see the Austrian and German governments putting on state-sponsored performances of Nazi propaganda set to music.

In 25 years, I have never tried to attract readers at all. That is probably the secret recipe. So you would be best off being realistic. Miss Losco is not a famous singer. She is a learning support assistant who sings: in other words, she earns her living in a school while singing for fun. If she were younger, we could say that she works in a school to pay the bills while trying to make it as a singer, but you need to admit that in her mids she is now past the point where you can still claim that.

The world is packed with beautiful, gifted year-olds, and nobody is waiting for middle-aged Ira Losco from Malta. You might have also forgotten your support towards her a few years back Daphne. But as much as i know you love dwelling on the past and i guess the present …. I am not that sort of person. Mar 24 Share Send Copy. Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy.

Advertise with Us. All Rights Reserved. Joseph Muscat lights the flame of freedom with the torch of the socialist party. This year down at Birgu, the senior songstress Mary Spiteri was trucked in to warble big hits from the rock opera Gensna — Mietna Ghall-Barrani, that kind of thing. Miss Spiteri supports the Labour Party passionately. The last time I heard her sing, it was in the general election campaign and she was on the stage at a giant Labour mass meeting, dedicating the title song from the film Titanic to Nationalist Party leader Eddie Fenech Adami who, she said to much laughter from her audience, was about to sink like that famous vessel.

Meanwhile, a big screen showed footage of the original Jum il-Helsien ceremony back in Gaddafi was a good strategist to bully and bribe Mintoff into that one, because look, now his investment is paying off. As expected, Muscat had nothing to say about Libya, but plenty to say about illegal immigration. Speaking at the foot of the monument before leading the party leadership to the top to light the torch, Dr Muscat told a packed audience that Malta believed in peace and while it would always be there to help in times of conflicts, it would retain its neutrality and not take sides.

We will not be a war base but a centre of peace. Dr Muscat said it was a trick of destiny that while Malta commemorated Freedom Day, the Mediterranean was facing the biggest upheaval it ever had ever faced in modern history. What was happening today, he said, showed that Malta had vision 32 years ago. The decision to close off the military base had saved Malta then and the country now remained free.

Freedom and independence, he said, were the foundations on which Malta had been built and his generation was proud of both achievements. Echoing the late President Guido de Marco, Dr Muscat said there could never be peace in Europe, unless there was peace in the Mediterranean. On immigration, the Labour leader said that Malta had helped other countries evacuate their people from a war zone without distinction and it expected the same kind of assistance should it be required.

U mela Mintoff ma kienx ihalli lil mara ddeffes imnehirha kif taghmel Mrs Muscat. Ezatt laqtitha Mary. So true, and we are going to be lumped with him and his lot for a few years. Let us hope that our current incumbents have the time to clean up their act. How sweet, Joseph reminds Mary of Mintoff.