Malta: PBS kicks off Junior Eurovision 2021 selection process

Malta: PBS kicks off Junior Eurovision 2021 selection process
Monday, 26 July 2021

  • The Maltese national broadcaster will take part in Junior Eurovision 2021 and has kicked off the national selection process for the contest in Paris. 

    Malta marks one more participation in Junior Eurovision with PBS commencing the national selection process for this year's contest. The national broadcaster is sticking with the traditional selection format of MJESC through which a televised national final will take place next October. The next hopeful will be determined by jury and public voting. 

    Act that ambition to represent the country in the next ediion of the competition in Paris can submit their application through the official TVM online application form. The submission window has already open and will close on September 5, 2021. Following the submission period, the public broadcaster will shortlist  12 acts which will go through to the national selection. 

    On September 19 the twelve national finalists will be unveiled while at the beginning of October the online voting will open, with the national final show set to take place on October 9, 2021. 

    The 19th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is set to take place on December 19, 2021 in Paris at the La Seine Musicale.

     

    Malta in Junior Eurovision 

    Malta is one of the most succeful nations in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, having won already twice: in 2013  with Gaia Cauchi and her entry “The Start” , and in 2015 with Destiny Chukunyere singing “Not My Soul,”. The nation debuted in the competition at the first contest back in 2003, and has only missed two editions, in 2011 and 2012. Since then apart from the two victories it has accomplished six times to finish in the top 10 spots on the scorebaoard. 

    In JESC 2019 Eliana Gomez Blanco represented Malta in  Gliwice- Silesia  with “We Are More”, and came 19th with a totlal of 29 points.

    Last year the national final winner, Chanel Monseigneur , flew the flag in Warsaw with her song "Chasing Sunsets" which finished 8th with a total of 100 points.

     

    News Source: TVM/ Eurovoix

    Image: JuniorEurovision.tv/ EBU / STIJN SMULDERS