effects of regional "bloc" voting, Chiara would have won the Contest. After the result in 2005, Chiara had been working a lot around Malta and abroad, most notably in Greece and Cyprus.. She hosted the Malta Song for Europe in 2008. Eurovision 2009 The loss of her father in 2008 became tough time for Chiara, but as a tribute to him she was even more determined to achieve further success. Chiara returned to the Malta Eurosong finals with a song composed by Belgian songwriters Gregory Bilsen and Marc Paelinck. On 7 February 2009, Chiara won the Maltese preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. She represented Malta in the first semi-final in Moscow with her song What If We on 12 May. She qualified to the grand final, held on 16 May, and finished 22nd in the final vote. 2010–present Siracusa was the spokesperson for Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, giving the points awarded from the Maltese voting in the final. In June 2010, she released the Official Malta Gay Pride Anthem, "Believe (We Are One)". Discography 1998: Shades Of One 2000: What You Want 2003: Covering Diversions 2005: Here I Am 2009: What If We Charted Singles Eurovision entries "The One That I Love" "Angel" "What If We" References External links Chiara Siracusa on Myspace 1976 births Living people Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Malta 21st-century Maltese women singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1998 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2005 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2009 Maltese pop singers Maltese singer-songwriters 20th-century Maltese women singers Maltese people of Italian descent English-language writers from Malta