The third show in the Maltese selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 aired tonight, with nine singers competing for their place in the competition.<\/p>\n
The singers performed for the three coaches (Destiny Chukunyere, Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur and Gaia Cauchi). If the coaches wanted a participant to join their team, they pressed their red button and their chair turned. If only one coach turned around, then the participant automatically joined that coach\u2019s team. If more than one coach turned around, the participant chose which team they would like to join. If no coaches turned around, then the participant was eliminated.<\/p>\n
Destiny Chukunyere is a returning coach, who first represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2015, winning the competition in Sofia with \u201cNot My Soul\u201d. She later returned to the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam in 2021, finishing seventh with \u201cJe me casse\u201d with 255 points. Gaia Cauchi is a new coach, and is best known for winning Junior Eurovision 2013 for Malta with \u201cThe Start\u201d. Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur is also a new coach. He is a musician, composer and arranger.<\/p>\n
The singers who competed in the second Blind Auditions show were:<\/p>\n
Naya Catania (9) \u2013 Gaia and Aleandro turned; Naya chose Gaia<\/p>\n
Katryce Grixti (13) \u2013 all coaches turned; Katryce chose Aleandro<\/p>\n
Aidan Borg (12) \u2013 all coaches turned; Aidan chose Aleandro<\/p>\n
Illona Mercieca (12) \u2013 did not advance<\/p>\n
Matthias Cutajar (12) \u2013 Gaia and Destiny turned; Matthias chose Destiny<\/p>\n
Kaylin Camilleri (14) \u2013 Gaia turned; Kaylin joined Gaia\u2019s team<\/p>\n
Amy Calleja (14) \u2013 did not advance<\/p>\n
Nelly Zerafa (11) \u2013 Aleandro turned; Nelly joined Aleandro\u2019s team<\/p>\n
Amber Carabott (14) \u2013 Aleandro turned; Amber joined Aleandro\u2019s team<\/p>\n
The coaches\u2019 teams at the end of show two are:<\/p>\n
Aleandro Spiteri<\/p>\n
Emma Farrugia (14)<\/p>\n
Maya Galea (12)<\/p>\n
Katryce Grixti (13)<\/p>\n
Aidan Borg (12)<\/p>\n
Nelly Zerafa (11)<\/p>\n
Amber Carabott (14)<\/p>\n
Destiny Chukunyere<\/p>\n
Skye Gilson (11)<\/p>\n
Roan Pirotta (13)<\/p>\n
Elena Spagnol (14)<\/p>\n
Aidem Galea (13)<\/p>\n
Annis Joy Buttigieg (14)<\/p>\n
Matthias Cutajar (12)<\/p>\n
Gaia Cauchi<\/p>\n
Nina Grima Wood (12)<\/p>\n
Beppe Caruana (11)<\/p>\n
Julia Sammut (14)<\/p>\n
Leah Gauci (14)<\/p>\n
Zelenio Zarb (12)<\/p>\n
Naya Catania (9)<\/p>\n
Kaylin Camilleri (14)<\/p>\n
The Voice Kids 2026 airs on weekdays on TVM from 20:45 CEST. The show is presented by Maxime Pace, who will present the show for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
Eliza Borg represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with \u201cI Believe\u201d. She placed 11th in Tbilisi, scoring 92 points.<\/p>\n
Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n
Malta debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and has gone on to win the contest twice. In 2013, on their return to the competition in Kyiv, Gaia Cauchi won the contest with \u201cThe Start\u201d. She was the first winner of a Eurovision event for Malta. In 2015, Destiny Chukunyere took victory in Sofia with the song \u201cNot My Soul\u201d. The country has hosted the contest in 2014 and 2016, and will host again in 2026. This will make Malta the first country to host Junior Eurovision three times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third show in the Maltese selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 aired tonight, with nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}