Fakawi
Fakawi is a Maltese glam cover band active since the late 1990s.[1][2]
The current line-up is Paul (in Maltese, Pawlu) Borg Bonaci, lead vocals and guitar, Antonio Ghio, bass and backing vocals, Mark Attard, keyboards, Rueben Navarro, drums and Ryan Buttigieg, percussions.[3]
The original line-up included Fabrizio Giorgio on drums replaced by Navarro in 2003 when Giorgio moved to Australia to pursue a degree in Commercial Music Performance (percussion).[4][5]
Fakawi have featured annually as the closing act on the Rock Stage at the Farsons Beer Festival.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The band has also become a regular performer at the yearly Nadur Carnival held on Malta's sister island, Gozo.[13]
Frontman Paul Borg Bonaci performs with other musical acts in Malta such as Xirka Rock[14] (with Fakawi keyboardist Mark Attard) and impersonates the comical character Johnny l-kajboj[15] on the national TV talk show Xarabank.
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- ^ "Farsons Group, press release 2008". Archived from the original on 2008-09-17.
- ^ "Farsons Group, press release 2007". Archived from the original on 2007-08-24.
- ^ "Farsons Group, press release 2006". Archived from the original on 2013-01-23.
- ^ Darmanin, David (17 February 2010). "When the misbehaved meet the disorganised". Malta Today.
- ^ Bugeja, Michael (1 July 2012). "Xirka Rock 5: smoke on the water". The Times of Malta.
- ^ "Jonny L-Kajboj interviewed". The Times of Malta. 18 August 2011.