Ira Losco

Ira Losco (2016)

Ira Losco (born July 31, 1981 in Sliema ) is a Maltese singer . It is one of the most successful in the island state.

Career

Losco started her career in the school band Tiara . Their first album Hi-Fidelity included their biggest hit basketball , followed by the album Butterfly . The band split after Ira Losco was selected to represent Malta at the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest . This participation was followed by other successful songs, for example, with Reaching Higher , she sang the official song of the Games of the Small States of Europe in 2003, which took place in Malta. Furthermore, with Get Out! also a single in Germany on the market.

Eurovision Song Contest

In 2000, Ira Losco took part in the Maltese preliminary round Malta Song For Europe for the first time . With her songs Shine and Falling In Love , she reached sixth and seventh place respectively. The following year, her four songs Spellbound , Don't Give Up, Deep Inside My Heart and We'll Ride The Wind landed in second, fourth, seventh and eleventh place. In 2002 Ira Losco took third place with One Step Away and won the preliminary round with the song 7th Wonder. So she entered the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 for Malta. Her song was written by Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg . At the performance in Tallinn , Losco was, much to the delight of the host country, supported by five singers in the background choir, who are very popular in Estonia . These were Kaire Vilgats, Liisi Koikson , Dagmar Oja, Airi Allvee and Jelena Juzik. In the end, Malta finished second behind Latvia , which was the best result for the Mediterranean country to date , until Chiara and Angel occupied the same position in 2005 . 14 years later she took part in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest again, with her songs That's Why I Love You and Chameleon (Invincible). Since each interpreter could only take part in the final with one piece, the former was eliminated in the semifinals, while the latter won by ten points. Thus, Ira Losco took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm . Originally her song Chameleon (Invincible) was planned, but she took part with Walk on Water . On May 8, 2016, two days before the first semifinals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, in which she successfully participated, she announced on Facebook that she and her partner Sean Gravina are expecting a child. In the final on May 14, 2016, she finished twelfth with 153 points.

Discography

Albums

• 2004: Someone Else
• 2005: Accident Phone
• 2005: Blends & Remixes of Someone Else
• 2006: Unmasced: the unplugged album
• 2008: Fortune Teller
• 2009: Mixed Beats
• 2012: Love Me or Hate Me
• 2013: Fire
• 2018: No Sinner No Saint

Singles

• 2002: 7th Wonder
• 2016: Chameleon (Invincible)
• 2016: That's Why I Love You
• 2016 Haunted by Love
• 2016: Walk on Water
• 2017: We are the Soldiers

Awards

Ira Losco can boast numerous music awards, so she won nine times the Malta Music Award and seven times the Bay Music Award, and on November 13, 2008 (National Day of Malta) she received a high award for merits, the Midalja ghall-Qadi tar-Repubblika .

Web links

Commons : Ira Losco  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Literature by and about Ira Losco in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Lee Adams: "I'm ecstatic" - Ira Losco confirms she is pregnant two days before Eurovision semi-final 1 | wiwibloggs. In: Eurovision 2016 Predictions, Polls, Odds, Rankings | wiwibloggs. May 8, 2016, Retrieved May 10, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Ira Losco - Walk On Water (Malta 2016). (No longer available online.) In: Eurovision.tv. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016 ; accessed on May 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Office of the Prime Minister, Recipients of the Midalja ghall-Qlubija and the Midalja ghall-Qadi tar-Repubblika (English)