Audio snippets of the 16 songs that will participate in the 2007 Maltese national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, Malta Song for Europe, have been published on escmalta.net. Two of the songs, Unite by Maro Kitcher and Ice queen by Julia Grima, were the winners of the Opportunity 2 Challenge.
You can listen to the songs here (external link) and find the line up of the semi final here.
As previously announced, a total of 228 entrieshad beensubmitted for the Maltasong for Europe Festival 2007, which were be cut down to 50 by a panel of judges.For the second phase, the songswere performed livein front ofa panel of foreign judges. 14 songswere chosen for the semi final on 1st February, two further entries were chosen through Opportunity 2.Six out of them will qualify for the final round on 3rd February.
In 2006, Fabrizio Faniello represented Malta with the song I do. In Athens, he finished with only one point in the final round, which means that Malta will have to enter the semi final in Helsinki.