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 Stamenković Lenina pesma
2. GEORGIA The Virus Gabede
3. SLOVENIA Lina Kuduzović Prva ljubezen
4. ITALY Chiara & Martina Viva
5. THE NETHERLANDS Shalisa Million Lights
6. AUSTRALIA Bella Paige My Girls
7. IRELAND Aimee Banks Réalta na Mara
8. RUSSIA Mikhail Smirnov Mechta (Dream)
9. FYR MACEDONIA Ivana Petkovska & Magdalena Aleksovska Pletenka – Braid of Love
10. BELARUS Ruslan Aslanov Volshebstvo (Magic)
11. ARMENIA MIKA Love
12. UKRAINE Anna Trincher Pochny z sebe
13. BULGARIA Gabriela Yordanova & Ivan Stoyanov Colour Of Hope
14. SAN MARINO Kamilla Ismailova Mirror
15. MALTA Destiny Chukunyere Not My Soul
16: ALBANIA Mishela Rapo Dambaje
17. MONTENEGRO Jana Mirković Oluja
Malta won the contest for the second time in three years, Armenia were second and Slovenia in third place.
You can see Destiny perform Not My Soul below.
Congratulations to MALTA
Congratulations to Destiny and to Malta. Good to hear that Armenia was always able to gain second place.
With Malta’s win and Germany’s selection of Xavier Naidoo, it seems Soul is emerging as a force at ESC. Maybe Guy Sebastian was just a year too early!
Whoops….it seems Germany has decided that Xavier Naidoo will NOT be representing them at Eurovision. The first search for an artist continues…