For the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, Malta entered "Believe 'n peace", performed by Times Three.

Before Eurovision

Malta Song for Europe 1999

The final was held on 19 and 20 February 1999 at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, hosted by Mariella Scerri and Joseph Chetcuti. 16 songs competed, and the winner was decided by an "expert" jury – one of whom was Mojca Mavec, the presenter of the Slovene national selection for

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. Georgina and Paul Giordimaina represented Malta in

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, and Georgina was also a backing singer in

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. Claudette Pace would go on to represent the country in

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. Fabrizio Faniello would follow suit in both

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

and

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, and Olivia Lewis would do the same in

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At Eurovision

The song received 32 points, finishing 15th.

Voting

References

{{Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...