Morten Thomassen discussed today CHIARA from MALTA who came second in 2005. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

What do you do when you have already reached third place with quite a few points to go to victory?

Yes, you try again and hope for better luck, but not all good things come in two, but she jumped a place on the podium then.

That’s what Maltese Chiara got to experience when she tried out for the second time in our beloved competition with the song “Angel”.

Big ballads were obviously this young lady’s thing and she really knows just that thing at her fingertips.

Such a shame that a Greek-Swedish girl named Helena could perform Greek-inspired Euro-pop with even longer fingertips.

A total of 38 points more was enough for her and Chiara once again had to settle for a perhaps slightly less sour second place than third place in 1998, I think.

Down to Romania in third place it was a comfortable 34 points so a pretty convincing second place for young Miss Siracusa.

We all remember that Chiara tried again in 2009, but I feel that she does not believe that all good things come in three, then it was a disappointing 22nd place.

Otherwise, I can read that Chiara cried for hours in the bathroom of the hotel room when she was so close to winning in 1998.

She doesn’t seem to have done much musically after her three ESC performances, too bad for this nation needed a win soon.

They are, after all, the country with the longest ESC history without having won, can a few convince Chiara that all good things come in fours?