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Single release

WALK ON WATER released as a single

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Today Malta’s biggest pop star Ira Losco is releasing her single “Walk On Water” together with Warner Music Sweden. The song is written by a well known Swedish songwriter team and is one of the favourites to win Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. Ira’s single has already gained great attention in the social medias and the music video for “Walk On Water” has passed more than one million views on YouTube. The team behind this powerful song, beside the artist herself, consists of Swedish Melodifestivalen star Molly Pettersson Hammar, songwriter Lisa Desmond and producer duo Tim Larsson and Tobias Lundgren. Tim and Tobias were behind this year’s breakthrough success Boris René with the hit song “Put Your Love On Me” in the Swedish selections for ESC. They’re also known for their hits with Celine Dion and Susan Boyle, to mention a couple.

“Ira is an exceptional singer, and we think this is a very strong song not only for Eurovision but also for commercial release. We look forward to working with her over the next months, and of course to her visiting Stockholm for Eurovision itself,” said Robert Skowronski, A&R and Product Manager at Warner Music Sweden.

With a career spanning over 15 years and more than 20 Music Awards, Ira Losco is one of the biggest names in Malta’s music industry. Previously Ira has been opening concerts for Sir Elton John and performed alongside Akon, Maroon 5, Enrique Iglesias, Ronan Keating, Katie Melua, Tokio Hotel and others. Ira is also no stranger to Eurovision. She was 12 points of winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn in 2002. With four albums behind her, she is now back to fight for the winning spot in Stockholm. Ira will perform in the first Eurovision semi-final on May 10th.

Competitions

FIFTH GAME FOR POINTS

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Switzerland each year opens the field so wide that every Tom, Dick and Harry can upload a video on the internet and be in the running. Yet their results over the years while they have been using this method were not good enough when you potentially can get songs from every corner of the world. What are they doing wrong? Swiss TV has asked you to give them some advice and share ideas how to ensure that they end up with a top 5 placing in Stockholm.
For me the problem is that although potentially artists from all over the world can enter, when the finalists are picked, 90% of them are Swiss artists. They must look back at 1988 when they had Celine Dion from Canada and won. So it really is stupid to have artists entering from many countries but that should also reflect then the finalists that come to TV.

Blast from the past, Covers

SOUTH AFRICAN COVERS

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The titles of over 400 covers of Eurovision songs by South African artists have been loaded in the library and this is more or less complete with there and there the original title of a song to be added once I have checked the spelling. That is the first part of the library – the covers are done alphabetical by original country and inside each country, by date order. The second part is the covers of melodifestivalen songs and this index is in date order and is about 40% complete. I hope to have it finished before the 2015 edition of melodifestivalen starts. I also got requests to do a third section – this is covers of songs by EUROVISION artists, for example not just Abba’s Waterloo but every ABBA song that has been covered in South Africa. This has never really been done and so I have no idea how many such covers exist but I have already loaded a lot – covers from Euro artists such as ABBA, Nicole, New Seekers, Celine Dion, Karel Gott, Nana Mouskouri, Vicky Leandros, Olivia Newton John, Mouth & Macneal etc. Hopefully some fans will see some interesting covers and go and search for them on Itunes or Youtube or wherever. 99% of the songs listed are in my own private collection- either on CD or vinyl single.