Malta in Eurovision Song Contest

Malta has been part of the Eurovision song contest for over 30 times and that is a record worth celebrating. The music contest debuted in the year 1971, though the country has never won the contest but came close four times, when its representative came second twice and also came third twice. In 1975, Malta withdrew from the competition for more than 15 years and came back in 1991and from 1991 till date, the country had an eight consecutive top 10 placings. Malta had featured in 24 of the 30. In the year 2013, Malta’s representative- Gaia Gauchi became the first Maltese to win the competition after several attempts, thus putting the country on the list of record winners of the competition.