Key facts
- Lyrics
- Peter Emberley , 1994
- Music
- Peter Emberley, 1994
- Adopted
- 18 October 1994
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Encyclopedic overview
The "Gibraltar Anthem" is the national song and local anthem of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, adopted in 1994. In common with the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and other British territories, the official national anthem of Gibraltar is "God Save the King".
"Gibraltar Anthem" was chosen in a 1994 competition announced in The Times newspaper in the UK. Both the lyrics and music were composed by Peter Emberley, a composer from Dorset who had never visited Gibraltar. The song by Emberley was selected by a panel of British and Gibraltarian judges from among 200 entries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gibraltar Anthem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.