Singing nuns make it to the Malta Eurovision semi-finals

The 20 semi-finalists for the Malta Eurovision Song Contest have been announced. The list includes three former Malta Eurovision Song Contest winners, Gianluca Bezzina (Malmo, 2013), Glen Vella (Dusseldorf, 2011) and Ludwig Galea (Istanbul, 2004). The list also includes four Eurovision newcomers - Karen Debattista, Iona Dalli, Minik and Lyndsay Pace, as well as the six singing nuns forming the ensemble Ekklesia.

The full list of semi-finalists was announced during Friday’s edition of Xarabank. As in previous editions, every semi-finalists got to sing a few seconds of their song during the show.

The full list of semi-finalists is:

Breakaway- Glen Vella

Chasing a Dream- Trilogy (Eleanor Spiteri, Roger Tirazona, Ludwig Galea)

12, Baker Street- Karen Debattista

Still Here- Franklin Calleja

It’s Ok- Deborah C

Love and Let Go- Ekklesia (Sisters Michaela, Monica, Rita, Claudia, Denise, Magdalene)

The One That You Love- Lawrence Gray

Fandango- Jessika

Something in the Way- Daniel Testa

Warrior- Amber

Rush- Christabelle

Closed Doors- Chris Grech

Beautiful to Me- L-Ahwa (Dorothy, Samaria, Gianluca, Paul, Vincienne and Francesca Bezzina)

Stop Haunting Me- Raquel Galdes

Close Your Eyes- Danica Muscat

Home- Lyndsay Pace

Secretly- Corazon Mizzi

Could Have Been Me- Iona Dalli

Take Me As I Am- Domenique Azzopardi

Once in a While- Minik

The 20 semi-finalists will perform at the MESC stage on Friday 21 November. 14 of them will qualify to the grand-final on Saturday. The winner will represent Malta in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest next May in Vienna after Austria's Conchita Wurst won the previous contest with her song 'Rise Like a Phoenix'.