Gianluca Bezzina

Gianluca Bezzina is a Maltese medical doctor and parttime singer who represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malm, Sweden.

Gianluca Bezzina was born in 1989 in Qrendi, Malta. He is the third of seven siblings. He comes from a very musical family. His sister Dorothy was also a participant in the 2013 Malta Eurovision Song Contest Starting From The End. She is a very popular singer at weddings in Malta. Members of his family sang the song Tomorrow on TVM . In 1989, his maternal aunt, Mary Anne Zammit, started publishing several audio cassettes of local songs in Maltese with themes dedicated to children and the family. These songs were very popular. Gianlucas maternal grandfather, the late Gaetano Buttigieg of Marsa, Malta, better known as Gaetano Kanta, was also a very wellknown figure in Malta. He was one of the pioneers in the use of the Maltese Language in pop music. In the fifties, sixties and seventies Gaetano published Maltese lyrics adapted to international pop songs.

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