One of the brightest moments following a national selection is surely the success that an artist manages to reach so that it could be a process of definition and continuing. In recent years, this has been the case with Claudia Faniello, one of the leading ladies in the local music scene. Having performed the song "Movie In My Mind" during the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2011, she is already moving forward with two new projects showing her success within the musical world.

Firstly, a good friend of our website, ESCflashmalta, Matthias Petermann who is in turn the musical director of the ESC Radio recently gave the go-ahead that the song which she presented in Malta for this years' Eurovision Song Contest will be getting airplay on the 24 hour broadcast which features entries from all of the national selections and also those which went to the Eurovision Song Contest. The songs of the selections are selected though and only a crop make it through. It is now confirmed that "Movie In My Mind" has made the cut.

As for her second project, Claudia Faniello has made the song "Movie in My Mind" available as an iTunes download and updated her official facebook page with a new welcome page for her fans.

Source: Claudia Faniello's Fan Page

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One of the up and coming international festivals that has commenced just last year is the Golden Melody Song Festival which takes place in the city of Cyprus noting that the organising group behind it also bears the same name 'Golden Melody' aiming to present some of the best talent in the world within a Meditteranean Culture. Last year, the song contest took place for the very first time in Nicosia with the winner being Andreas Konstatindes. Maltese participation was also present then.

In fact, last year, each nation could have more than one song and I would like to send over my congratulations to our four finalists who were as follows; Rosman Pace with the song 'One Million Ways' written by himself, Romina Mamo with the song 'One Thousand Mirrors' composed by Philip Vella and penned by Deo Grech, Jason Scerri and his self-written composition "This Must Be Love" and last but not least the song "Smile" performed by Neville to the music of Jonas Gladnikoff and lyrics of Natasha Turner. This year, each nation only has one song and in fact, despite quite an impressive eight (8) artists from Malta submitted an entry, J.Anvil is the one to have made the cut.

Our presence in the contest which will be taking place within the next couple of days will be spearheaded by singer J.Anvil, a respected name who has been within the Malta Eurosong competition a total of four times so far, with participations coming in 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011. The song which will be performing in Cyprus is entitled "Aphrodite" and it has been composed by Andrew Zahra with lyrics by Deo Grech. The backing as well as the recording was done at Freetime Studios by none other than Elton Zarb. You can find more details about who will be competing against Malta through this link here.

Source: Golden Melody Song Contest 2011

In recent years, the Turkish broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, TRT, has been working hard in promoting the best of the nation through some of their most popular acts and this has been showcased quite well because of the good results achieved in recent years finishing in the top five at the end of event on quite a number of times since winning it back in 2003. This year, the nation will be representation by the up and coming group Yüksek Sadakat.

The song which the chosen group will be performing will be made public next Friday, 25th February at around 18:30 CET which would be just an hour later for them. The song which will be in English is currently undergoing the final touches in order to be presented in the best possible way. It is expected that the song will be mainly rock although somewhat in the style which took them to last years' runner-up finish with maNga and their entry "We Could Be The Same". Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

Source: Facebook, TRT

As previously reported by this website first, the promotional tour of Glen Vella is about to kick off but due to an internal problem caused in Armenia where the singers' father unfortunately passed away during the weekend, the show in which our 2011 representative was set to commence his tour has been postponed but the Public Broadcasting Services surely note their professionalism as instead he heads onto the nation of Ukraine who will be presenting their entry this coming weekend as well whilst the visit to Croatia is still on the cards.

In the meantime, the preview video which will be presented to the European Broadcasting Union during the Heads of Delegation meeting in March has already commenced with a spokesperson of the Public Broadcasting Services stating that they received well over nine hundred (900) applications for people who would like to make an appearance within the promotional clip of the song "One Life" composed by Paul Giordimaina and penned by Fleur Balzan.

In the meantime, extremely close sources stated that the re-recording of the song has already commenced in Malta whilst it is most highly probable that the mastering will be done abroad as has been the case for the last couple of years. Some companies are interested in doing such a job but it is up to the broadcaster to see which would be the better deal at this point in time. Keep following ESCflashmalta for more updates about Glen Vella and his entry "One Life" as he represents Malta in 2011 Eurovision Song Contest to take place in Germany.

Source: Facebook, Bla Agenda, ESCflashmalta