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MALTA: THE QUEEN OF L-GHANJA TAL-POPLU - CORAZÓN MIZZI!

If The Travellers have proven recently one can do great singing in Maltese there's also someone else doing great stuff: Corazón Mizzi. While in Malta I was looking for some Maltese CDs only to find out they pretty much don't exist, and the most helpful staff in legendary D'Amato - probably the world's oldest record store today - suggested me Corazón's Hawn jien (2014 album). Having nothing else really to bring home I decided to go or it without even realizing it is the Corazón from Maltese Eurovision selections. And what a find it was! Thank you D'Amato! But let's start from the obvious: Eurovision. Corazón has been offering us songs in the Maltese Eurovision selection since 2009, actually making her best result this year with Falling glass , one of my favorites btw. I also liked last year's Secretly but that failed even the final. But Corazón's true calling is singer-songwriter in Maltese as this excellent album clearly shows. We have al...

ESC 2016 MALTA: MALTA ANNOUNCE A SHORT LIST FOR THE SEMIFINALISTS

Malta is about to announce the 20 semifinalists very soon and now there is a list of 49 songs and artists who have made it this far from the 153 songs sent it. And there are many familiar names as always. Fans are most excited about Ira Losco who finally makes a comeback, and we have also Jessika, Deborah C, Danica Muscat, Christabelle, Lawrence Gray, Corazon, Raquel Galdes, Franklin Calleja, Klinsmann Coleiro.....  Let's see if they all make the cut. The semifinal takes place on January 22 and 14 songs will make it to the final the day after. Once again there will be jurors and televoters will act as one juror.