About Father

Rob Galea

Robert Galea (born 14 November 1981), known professionally as Fr Rob Galea, is a Maltese/Australian Roman Catholic priest and contemporary Christian singer-songwriter. Galea has released eight music projects, More of You (April 2004), Closer (UK release, February 2006), What A Day (January 2008), "Divine Mercy Chaplet" [Featuring Gary Pinto and Natasha Pinto] (August 2010), "Reach Out" (January 2011) and a live concert DVD and live CD entitled Fr Robert Galea, Reach Out Live (July 2011), "Glorify" Mass setting (August 2013) and "Something About You" (January 2015). Galea has been featured in national newspapers and magazines as well as on TV Channel 10's The Project. He was a contestant on Australia's The X Factor in 2015 but left voluntarily after boot camp due to parish and youth-work commitments. He is the author of Breakthrough (2018), a book published in the United States by Ave Maria

Galea's performance career combines music with Christian messages. Galea has written a number of songs for various campaigns and international conferences. He was selected to sing in the international version of the official World Youth Day song, "Receive the Power", along with pop idol Guy Sebastian and soprano, Amelia Farrugia. He performed at events before Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 and an estimated 500,000 pilgrims in Sydney. Galea was a contestant on the Australian version of reality TV talent show The X Factor in 2015, but withdrew "after struggling to balance the demands of the show with pastoral commitments". In September 2017, he issued a single, "Dominoes", with Ira Losco. He described it to Rebecca Iversen of The Malta Independent as "a pop song which talks about brokenness of us and all of us. It talks about how we are broken into a million pieces but when these billion of pieces come together, your million my million, they create a work of art.". In 2020, Galea contributed "Silent Night" to CDB's album, Christmas Is Here: The CDB Mixtape.