Background
Daniel"s mother is Maltese and his father is Swedish.
Daniel"s mother is Maltese and his father is Swedish.
Daniel"s father introduced him to guitar from an early age. The Amalm Brothers jammed with George Benson and after the jam George donated his own money towards a new guitar that the brothers had been saving foreign Daniel performed as one of the guitarists in "An Angel Moves Too Fast To See" written by Rhys Chatham for 100 electric guitars for the Brisbane Biennial on 4-5 June 1993.
Daniel was runner up in the 9th Australian Classical Spanish Guitar Competition.
In 1996, Amalm left and recorded a single, "Classical Gas", which was a top 21 hit on the ARIA Charts and Number.5 on the Dance Charts. Followed by "Honey Dip Girl", which was voted Number.
1 on Network Ten"s Video Hits for 5 consecutive weeks. In 2000, he returned to for a guest appearance and also appeared in and
Daniel has worked as a music teacher in classical, flamenco and rock guitar.
He has performed the live circuit with various Latin/Rock covers & originals bands and wrote with Alternative/Metal band OP25. Daniel"s Brother Jacob plays drums in OP25. The band contributed to the original motion picture soundtrack of "Two Fists One Heart" with a song called "Like Number Other".
Daniel appeared in the Nine Network drama series in 2008 as Melbourne underworld figure, Dino Dibra.
He also starred in the Australian film which was released 19 March 2009 and "" released July 2009. In 2009, Amalm began a regular role in drama series as Jordan Zwitkowski on the Nine Network and co-hosted FOX8"s adaptation of the boxing reality series The Contender.