Kirstie Barbara {copyright: Facebook.com/Soundcloud}
It was back in 2006 that Kirstie Barbara participated in the Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest competition. Her song was Music For You And Me which was an upbeat pop song that would have been good enough for the adult Eurovision show.
Kirstie has continued with her singing and has the talent to progress and hopefully be on the Eurovision stage in the future. In the meantime she has recently recorded her version the Miley Cyrus number one hit, Wrecking Ball.
Kirstie’s father is the talented and respected singer and musician, Tarcisio Barbara, who has participated in various Malta Song For Europe festivals over the years.
Destiny Chukunyere has won the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song Contest for Malta with her upbeat soul anthem Not My Soul. In a tense round of voting which went right to the last set of votes from Montenegro, Malta just pipped Armenia to the winning post.
17 competing countries took part in Sofia, Bulgaria –
1. SERBIA Lena StamenkovićLenina pesma
2. GEORGIA The VirusGabede
3. SLOVENIA Lina KuduzovićPrva ljubezen
4. ITALY Chiara & MartinaViva
5. THE NETHERLANDS ShalisaMillion Lights
6. AUSTRALIA Bella PaigeMy Girls
7. IRELAND Aimee BanksRéalta na Mara
8. RUSSIA Mikhail SmirnovMechta (Dream)
9. FYRMACEDONIA Ivana Petkovska & Magdalena AleksovskaPletenka – Braid of Love
10. BELARUS Ruslan AslanovVolshebstvo (Magic)
11. ARMENIA MIKALove
12. UKRAINE Anna TrincherPochny z sebe
13. BULGARIA Gabriela Yordanova & Ivan StoyanovColour Of Hope
14. SAN MARINO Kamilla IsmailovaMirror
15. MALTA Destiny ChukunyereNot My Soul
16: ALBANIA Mishela RapoDambaje
17. MONTENEGRO Jana MirkovićOluja
Malta won the contest for the second time in three years, Armenia were second and Slovenia in third place.
Destiny Chukunyere will represent Malta at the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her song entitled Not My Soul was revealed today with the official video.
The song was composed by Elton Zarb and Matthew (Muxu) Mercieca. The team were behind the previous two Malta Junior Eurovision entries by Gaia Cauchi (2013 winner with The Start) and Federica Falzon (2014 Diamonds).
Federica Falzon {copyright: Hadd Ghalik Sajf – Copyright 2015 WE MEDIA LTD Malta/Hadd Ghalik/PBS Malta/TVM/Authors}
Federica Falzon represented Malta at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song Diamonds. She gave an outstanding performance of the pop/opera song and achieved a lot of acclaim.
Federica recently performed the Romanian 2013 Eurovision song by CezarIt’s My Life on the popular TVM entertainment series Hadd Ghalik Sajf. The upbeat pop/opera song suited Federica’s style perfectly.
In the last few years, they have become one of the worst countries to deal with. This year was no different and in fact I did not lay eyes on any P R people from Lithuania. It was especially difficult for me since their song is my top favourite for 2015. Bea records said she got some CD singles, so hopefully I can order one from there.
0 out of 10
IRELAND
Like Lithuania, it seems they simple have no promo material in the last years. Nobody seems to have even set eyes on anything, so probably there will be nothing, not even a postcard with the singer’s face on. Pity the song composed by the Swedish team did not win in the Irish selection because then we would have had something.
0 out of 10
SAN MARINO
With Ralph Siegel’s company behind the entry, like the previous 3 years with Valentina, it is the easiest entry for 2015 to get. This is how P R should be done and such a pity it seldom reflects in success, as often the journalists do not report on this kind of thing.
10 out of 10
MONTENEGRO
The P R of this country has really become good in the last years and they have one of the best heads of delegation. Both 2014 and 2015 their P R was of the best. There was also a full CD of Knez for those collectors who prefer full CD’s to singles.
10 out of 10
MALTA
Malta is another country who always rate high and Daniel, the head of press makes sure to interact with the various website reporters.
10 out of 10
NORWAY
It is quite difficult for me to really rate the Norwegian P R team because of my close relationship with Morten, president of OGAE Norway, I never have a problem with their promo material, but this year, having written to all 40 heads of press over the handing of the gift bags to the artists, Norway was first to respond.
10 out of 10
PORTUGAL
In the middle 2000’s one of the most difficult delegations to deal with but that have really improved and now are among the best.
9.5 out of 10
CZECH REPUBLIC
Having been absent from the contest for some years, I perceived this as one of the most difficult to get the promo CD, but surprisingly, it as fairly easy.
9 out of 10
The Summer Hit Song Contest was revived in Malta in 2014. It proved a big hit with viewers and artists. The 2015 finalists have been announced on The Celebrity Night tv show on F Living channel hosted by Deo Grech. A lot of acts and writers will be familiar to those who follow the Malta Eurosong finals and local festivals.
The 21 acts and song and writers are –
Danica Muscat – Amour (Philip Vella)
Maria Cassar – Astronaut (Marco Debono / Rita Pace)
Sarah Bonnici – Bandwagon (Pamela Bezzina / Emil Calleja Bayliss)
Michela Galea – Bounce Back (Renato Briffa / Emil Calleja Bayliss)
Jillianne Camilleri – Dangerous (Elton Zarb / Matt ‘Muxu’ Mercieca)
Rita Pace & Audrey Marie – Do It Better (Rita Pace)
Amber will represent Malta at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Warrior composed by Elton Zarb and Muxu. Today the local broadcaster, TVM, launched the official video and new version of the song.
The song has some nice orchestral pieces added to make a strong effect to the song.
