RAY BUTTIGIEG [Composer/Producer/Poet]


Ray Buttigieg (pronounced /beauty-gig/, with hard "g" as in "go") was born on the island of Gozo, the second largest island of the Maltese Islands on May 1, 1955. In a small picturesque village in the town of Qala, overlooking Mount Etna in the distant haze some fifty miles away, towering over the southern shores of Sicily, in the beautiful Mediterranean Sea Ray grew up surrounded by the big blue skies, the legendary shores and the waves of the seas immortalized in Homer’s Odyssey. Some two miles away from his birth place lay the oldest megalithic temples in the world (Ggantija), dating back 7-8,000 years ago. This is a heritage Mr. Buttigieg is extremely proud of and subjects of great interest and wonderment, considering the builders of these temples, these timekeepers, these dwellers, were the ancestral people of which he is a descendant. He attended Qala primary school, then the Lyceum in Victoria, Gozo. He then moved to the United States