Gianluca Cilia, who is 9 years old, has been chosen to represent Malta at the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Tbilisi, Georgia. In the Malta national final he performed the Italian song by Massimo Ranieri, Perdere L’Amore, and impressed the watching televoting public.

10 acts competed in the final where they all performed a cover song.

• Thea Aquilina
  Jahel Cardona
  Gianluca Cilia
  Kira Copperstone
  Riona Degiorgio
  Rianne Demicoli
  Aidan Jay Drakard
  Demi Galea
  Kylie Meilak
  Veronica Rotin

The interval consisted of outstanding performances by previous Malta Junior Eurovision acts – Federica Falzon (2014), Gaia Cauchi (2013), Destiny (2015) and Christina Magrin (2016).

The song for Gianluca Cilia for Junior Eurovision will be selected later in the year. You can see his performance in the final below.

Source: ESC Covers