1. Chiara Siracusa represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998,2005, and 2009 and is with a second and a third place the third most successful participant who never won the contest.
11 Facts About Chiara Siracusa
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Chiara Siracusa finished in 3rd place after a tense voting sequence, with the final voting country pushing her from joint 1st into 3rd, leaving her behind the victorious Dana International of Israel, and behind Imaani of the United Kingdom.
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In 2005, aiming for another chance at Eurovision, Chiara Siracusa re-entered the Song for Europe festival, and along with 21 other entries reached the final on 19 February with the song Angel, another ballad which this time she wrote and composed herself.
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Chiara Siracusa won with 11,935 phone calls, 566 ahead of her nearest rival Olivia Lewis, and so represented Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Chiara Siracusa had the distinction of joining an unusually extensive list of 2005 competitors who had competed previously in the contest, including Iceland's 1999 runner-up Selma, and Greece's Helena Paparizou, who in the 2001 contest was lead singer of third-placed Antique.
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Chiara Siracusa came second in the Contest with 192 points, putting her ahead of Malta's only other Eurovision runner-up, Ira Losco and making "Angel" the most successful Maltese entry of all time.
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One scholarly study has claimed that, were it not for the effects of regional "bloc" voting, Chiara Siracusa would have won the Contest.
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Chiara Siracusa hosted the Malta Song for Europe in 2008.
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Chiara Siracusa returned to the Malta Eurosong finals with a song composed by Belgian songwriters Gregory Bilsen and Marc Paelinck.
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On 7 February 2009, Chiara Siracusa won the Maltese preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
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Chiara Siracusa was the spokesperson for Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, giving the points awarded from the Maltese voting in the final.