The Malta Euro Song
has replaced
The Malta Song for Europe festival as the way
Malta selects its entry
for the Eurovision Song Contest in
2009. The Malta Euro Song 2009 final
will take place at Ta'
Qali's Malta Fairs & Convention Centre on
Saturday 7th
February 2009.
182 entries were originally
submmitted and narrowed down to 56 entries
by a panel
consisting of Alon Amir (Israel, Music PR & Management),
Frank Cachia (Malta, electronic music producer), Lenoir Francis (France,
artistic director, music clip director), Alvin Laudi (Malta, musician Band
Aid Music Malta) Nadienne Sacco (Malta, musician, bassist), Vincent
Scerri (Malta, radio presenter), No Yon (South Korean-Japan, artistic
director, vocal coach, musician and singer). The 56 entries selected
by this panel were performed in a series of weekly TV programmes broadcast
by TVM every Saturday evening towards the end of 2008 into early 2009
under the name Euro Showbox.
15 entries from Euro Showbox qualified for the final through the votes
of another panel – Kevin Abela (principal trumpet - Malta Philarmonic
Orchestra, music director), Munro Forbes (executive producer JESC 08),
Pascal-Emmanuel Luneau (musician, screenwriter, composer, author, vocal
coach for singers and actors), Ray Mangion (producer, artistic director, professional performer), Denise Mulholland (vocal and music director,
theatre director and actress), and Marco Vannuzzi (owner and manager 23music, music PR & International
management) – while the another 5 songs were chosen through televoting.
An international panel of 5 foreign judges will select 3 songs to the
super-final, and the winner will then be determined by televoting.
These are the 20 songs in order of appearance at the final.
Song
Singer
Music
Lyrics
01
Ha Hi Hu
The Elements
Carm Fenech
Carm Fenech
02
Kamikaze Lover
Baklava
Philip Vella
Gerard J. Borg
03
Choose your number
J.Anvil
Augusto Cardinali
Giovann Attard
04
Where you belong
Wayne Micallef
Wayne Micallef
Luke Ambrogio
05
Tonight at the
Opera
Classic Rebels
Ralph Siegel
John O’Flynn
06
Promises
Vittorio &
Dorothy
Chan Vella
Alexia Schembri
07
What if we
Chiara
Marc Paelinck
Gregory Bilsen
08
One million ways
Rosman
Rosman Pace
Rosman Pace
09
Before you walk away
Q
Paul Giordimaina
Fleur Balzan
10
Let it shine
Kylie Coleiro
Andrew Zahra
Joe Julian Farrugia
11
Where was I?
Jamie Tonna
Jason Paul Cassar
Mario J. Farrugia
12
Life is an opera
Christine Barbara
Rita Pace
Rita Pace
13
Someday
Eleanor Cassar
Paul Giordimaina
Fleur Balzan
14
Crossroads
Racquela
Philip Vella
Gerard J. Borg
15
Mama
Miriam Christine
Miriam Christine Warner
Miriam Christine Warner
16
Avalon
Georgina
& Ruth Casingena
Paul Abela
Joe Julian Farrugia
17
Typical me
Alison Ellul
Philip Vella
Gerard J. Borg
18
The song in your
heart
Trilogy
Paul Abela
Joe Julian Farrugia
19
Blue Sonata
Claudia Faniello
Ray Agius
Ray Agius
20
Butterfly Sky
Klinsmann
Klinsmann Coleiro
Joe Julian Farrugia
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