On Wednesday, Malta’s Eurovision 2024 representative Sarah Bonnici released her new single, “Lose”.
About “Lose”
“Lose” is Sarah’s first single following Eurovision. In an Instagram reel, she revealed that the song is about overthinking. She frequently struggles with overthinking things, so she decided to write a song about it. “Lose” was written by Bonnici and Maltese music producer Micimago.
How to stream “Lose”
You can listen to “Lose” at the following links:
Sarah Bonnici’s Eurovision History
Sarah Bonnici is a 25 year old singer from Gozo in Malta. Since 2009, from a young age Sarah has been involved in the music industry. Sarah has been trying to get to Eurovision since 2009, when she entered the “Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest” with “The Mambo Song”. In the competition, Sarah finished fourth. Later in 2010, Sarah tried to represent her nation in Junior Eurovision again, and while again she did not win the national final, she did win a chance to become a backing dancer for the eventual entry.
As Sarah entered her teenage years, she participated in singing competitions all over Europe in countries such as Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Sarah was also successful in a lot of these competitions. In 2018 Sarah also participated in the Maltese version of The X Factor. A few years later in 2022, Sarah competed in the adult version of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, with her song “Heaven”. “Heaven” finished twelfth in the final.
Her Eurovision song for 2024, “Loop”, is written by John Emil Johansson, Kevin Lee, Sebastian Pritchard-James, Leire Gotxi Angel, Matthew James Borg, Michael Joe Cini, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Ale Zabala, as well as input from Sarah herself. It placed last in the second semi-final, scoring 13 points.
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