Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
CountryFlag of Malta.svg  Malta
National selection
Selection process
  • Artist: Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
  • Song: Internal selection
Selection date(s)
  • Artist: 1 July 2017
  • Song: 29 September 2017
Selected entrantGianluca Cilia
Selected song"Dawra tond"
Selected songwriter(s)Dominic Cini
Emil Calleja Bayliss
Finals performance
Final result9th, 107 points
Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Malta participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 on 26 November 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Maltese entrant for the 2017 contest was selected through a national final, organised by the Maltese broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) on 1 July 2017, while their song was selected internally. Each of the ten participants performed covers of non-Eurovision candidate songs during the national final. Gianluca Cilia was declared winner with his cover of Perdere l'amore. [1]

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Background

Prior to the 2017 Contest, Malta had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twelve times since its first entry in 2003 only opting not to participate at the 2011 and 2012 contests. Malta has won on two occasions: in 2013 when Gaia Cauchi won with the song "The Start", and again in 2015 when Destiny Chukunyere came first with "Not My Soul" when it won the contest with 185 points, breaking the previous record held by Spain for the most points ever given to a winner. [2]

Before Junior Eurovision

Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017

The national final took place on 1 July 2017. [3] The national final consisted of ten competing acts participating in a televised production. Each of the 10 participants sang a song of their own choice. After all of them had performed, the results were decided through 100% televote and Gianluca Cilia as announced was the winner of the national final. [4]

Final – 1 July 2017
DrawArtistSong [5] Place
1Thea Aquilina"It's Man's Man's World" (Renée Geyer)—
2Jahel Cardona"One Night Only" (Dreamgirls)—
3Gianluca Cilia"Perdere l'amore" (Massimo Rainieri)1
4Kira Copperstone"The Voice Within" (Christina Aguilera)—
5Riona Degiorgio"True Colors" (Cyndi Lauper)—
6Rianne Demicoli"Satellite" (Lena Meyer-Landrut)3
7Aidan Jay Drakard"Mad World" (Tears for Fears)—
8Demi Galea"Breathing Underwater" (Emeli Sandé)—
9Kylie Meilak"I Believe" (Fantasia)—
10 Veronica Rotin "And I Am Telling You" (Jennifer Holliday)2

Song selection

On 30 September 2017 the Maltese broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) announced that Gianluca Cilia will sing "Dawra Tond" at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017. [6]

Artist and song information

Gianluca Cilia

Gianluca Cilia
Born (2007-11-12) 12 November 2007 (age 15)
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2013–present

Gianluca Cilia (born 12 November 2007) is a Maltese child singer. He represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia on 26 November 2017 with a song "Dawra tond", performed in both English and Maltese.

Gianluca started to sing at the age of 6, and he takes singing and music lessons at Harmonic Ensemble. His first participation in a major competition was in 2015, taking part in Oltroceano in Palermo, winning the festival. A year later he represented Malta in an international singing festival in Romania, placing third with his song Mamma lo canto per te. In that same year he also took part in the inaugural edition of Arpeggio, in Malta, achieving the first place. [7] In 2020, together with Yulan Law, he took part in the Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Deck of Cards".

"Dawra tond"

"Dawra tond" (Maltese for round in a circle) is a song by Maltese child singer Gianluca Cilia. It represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017.

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which took place on 20 November 2017, Malta was drawn to perform twelfth on 26 November 2017, following Ukraine and preceding Russia. [8]

Voting

In 2017, a new voting system was introduced, in which the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten. [9]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 24 November 2017 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 26 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs. [10] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Malta [11]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror EAverage RankPoints Awarded
01Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 15121011913
02Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 10555856
03Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6141212711
04Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 2894347
05Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 11132112
06Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 111311131414
07Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 141515151215
08Flag of North Macedonia.svg  Macedonia 74481065
09Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 33314210
10Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 1371491312
11Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 461310574
12Flag of Malta.svg  Malta
13Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 5262138
14Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 129271592
15Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 911761183
16Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 8108146101

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