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About Fabrizio:


Fabrizio was born on the 27th of April, 1981. As a young boy, Fabrizio was always involved in music and singing, taking part in festivals for young talent in which he always did very well. His singing talent continued flourishing within Maltese musicals in which he performed. He is also a talented sportsman, being very active in Football, and the MFA (Malta Football Association).

In 1998, he sang the song More Than Just A Game, written by Paul Abela and Georgina with which he placed second in the Maltese Song For Europe festival of that year and also performed it in the festival Bratislava Lyra where he won that festival with the same song. That year, he was also selected among 15,000 candidates in the auditions of Castro caro, a highly scrupulous process of selection of young talent in Italy, from where prestigious Italian singers like Zucchero, Jovanotti and Eros Ramazzotti emerged. He was also nominated for and won the award of best male singer in the Maltese Music Awards of that Year. Subsequently, Fabrizio took part in other festivals, both in Malta and overseas, including Italy, Czech Republic and Kazakstan. He also won the FIDOF award for the best promising young talent.

The year after, Fabrizio also won the Maltese international Song Festival with the Song "Sa L-Ahhar" written by Ray Agius and Alfred C. Sant. The following year, he also performed in a festival held in Kazakstan where he placed 2nd and won the Radio award. He also participated again with the song Change Of Heart (written by Paul Abela and Georgina) in the Maltese Song For Europe festival 2000 in which he placed 2nd. With the same song he performed in a festival in Prague where he won the FIDOF award for the best interpretation.

Fabrizio's singing career includes credits in musical theatre such as, Les Miserables in concert, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Fiddler On the Roof. He performs all around Malta in clubs, in concerts and is now a very successful Maltese TV personality. Now that he has won the Maltese Song For Europe festival 2001 with the song Another Summer Night (written by Paul Abela and Georgina) he represented Malta with this song in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in the Parken stadium at the 12th of may .

Millions of Fans watched this event and millions of fans loved very much the performance of Fabrizio, immediately the song "ANOTHER SUMMER NIGHT" was played on a rotation basic in a lot of radio-stations all over Europe !

Returning to Malta, thousands of fans gave him a warm welcome !
Fabrizio was invited to all TV and Radio-stations in Malta as well as the local press were full of very positive comments and articles about him.

At the 25th of may Fabrizio was presenting himself and a lot of local artists at his first big concert in Malta at the Luxor Ground stadium (organized by Q - Productions) and it was at the same time the launch of his debut-album "While I´m Dreamin´" to his Maltese friends and fans.
The concert was a big success and was broadcasted at the biggest private TV channel Super One at the 15th of June, the album went immediately to the No. 1 Position in the Maltese album charts and is already the most sold album of a Maltese artist ever.

Meanwhile Fabrizio visited different countries and worked on promotion for his

debut-album as well as on his second single release "My Girl".
In Denmark his album went into the Top 100 album list for four weeks and the single

 was in the top 20 airplay list for 5 weeks. In Germany the single was 7 weeks in the

top 100 airplay list.

Fabrizio was performing at a lot of TV-Stations (incl. RTL, ARD, SFB, B-TV, NBC Giga,

 DR, BBC, ITN, etc.) performed promotion gigs at PopKomm in Cologne and You in Berlin

at the BRAVO & VIVA - stages, was performing in Denmark at the very famous "Langeland-Festival"

 in front of 10.000 people and was always followed by hundreds of screaming fans & friends, -

 his fan-base gets bigger nearly everyday!
Hot on the spot the single “SHOW ME NOW” was released in 2002 with a high-budget-video for MTV

and VIVA and the song immediately went to be a huge hit in Malta and was played the heaviest rotation

ever in history of the Maltese radio & TV !

Releases have been in several countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, South East

 Asia, and MTV Asia and MTV Romania were broadcasting his video !

In Germany he was performing on the VIVA - Stage at the “You” – Fair in Berlin, has been played

 at big

 tv-stations like RTL & SAT 1 , was on heavy rotation in different radio stations and entered the

dance-charts on position 17 and the airplay-charts on position 5 ….!!...J

He played some big festivals like the “Halberg-Festival” in Saarbrücken in front of 65.000 people,

 Ã¢â‚¬Å“GOLDEN STAG Festival” in Brasov/Romania and the “MusicMania Festival” on Malta and has been

 invited to big events like the EU Summit in Copenhagen in December 2002.

Now Fabrizio finalized the works to his 2nd album “When we danced” which is ready for release now.

The first teaser single out of this album is the pop-dance-latin-song “WHEN WE DANCED” (please check

the video at www.fabriziofaniello.de/whenwedanced/ ) written by top famous American writers Rick Kelly &

Anthony Little (N’Sync, Backstreet Boys).

For the 2nd album there are various up-tempo songs like “SOMEBODY SENT ME AN ANGEL”,

latin-pop-orientated tracks like “LET ME BE YOUR LOVER” and big ballads like “HEAVENLY”, written

by the most successful composer of Malta, - Paul Abela, - all of them potential hit-singles on the new album.

The launch of the new album will be late summer 2003 in Malta combined with the release of WHEN WE

DANCED, a big stadium-concert and a TV-broadcasting of his whole show.

In Other countries , like for example in Romania, where Fabrizio recorded the song with famous singer AndreEA, the track is already a huge hit, played on MTV and Atomic (Their local Video station), is playlisted at mainly all big radio stations and received the 3rd price in the category HITS OF THE YEAR and received an award for best performers !

The work for releases all over the world, to break this 22-year-young artist in as much territories as possible, is in full progress !

To be continued, ... ... ...