Ludwig Galea performed in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2004. As one half of the duo "Julie & Ludwig

Julie & Ludwig

Julie and Ludwig represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. They placed 12th from 24 contestants with the song On Again... Off Again. They have just launched an album called Moodswings....

", he and his singing partner (and by then, real-partner too), Julie Zahra

Julie Zahra

Julie Ann Zahra was born in Malta in 1982. She is a classically trained singer who has been actively involved in music from a very young age. Julie took part in many local and international festivals, TV drama, Music videos and theatre. She has also represented her country in the Eurovision Song...

, managed to qualify to the final and came 12th out of 36 countries competing. Their song, "On Again... Off Again," recorded in Germany, was just in the top 12, so Malta were automatically qualified for the 2005 contest in Kiev, Ukraine in May 2005.

Ludwig was born on 26 November 1977. His first appearance was in the year 2000 at the 'Festival ghaz-zghazagh 2000' (engl.: 'Festival for youths') wherein he placed third with a song which he himself composed entitled 'All you ever need'.

Together with Julie, Ludwig entered various local and international song festivals with the songs, "Adagio", "Endlessly", "My Number One", "Sebat Ilwien" and of course, the Maltese Eurovision entry for 2004, "On Again...Off Again". They also participated in the Golden Stage (Romania) with the cover-version of the Romanian Eurovision 2002 entry, "Tell Me Why".