Olivia Lewis, born 18 October 1978, is a singer from Qormi, Malta. She has … Read Full Bio ↴Olivia Lewis, born 18 October 1978, is a singer from Qormi, Malta. She has competed 11 consecutive times in the Malta Song For Europe festival, which selects the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
At an early age, she started showing interest towards singing and performing and eventually started attending singing lessons. This was followed by a string of successful participations in local song festivals. Her winning streak was formidable and her huge collection of trophies is full of memories from these past festivals when she was so young.
Her first participation in the Song for Europe Festival was actually at age 14 as backing vocalist. A year later she was also backing vocalist for William Mangion’s winning ‘This time’. She just missed participating in the Eurovision Song Contest of that year because of her young age.
In the mean time Olivia started focusing on various musical styles. Her preferred styles are R&B and soul. She likes listening to singers such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey and a host of other performers who have made their name in the black music scene.
After a few years, Olivia was encouraged to start training for jazz singing. This took most of her time, but results were soon to be forthcoming. In fact Olivia was the first Maltese singer to perform in the renowned Malta Jazz Festival together with the Paul Giordmaina Jazz Quarter. Her performance was memorable.
Olivia has participated as lead singer in the Song for Europe Festival since she was 16 years old. In the process she has collaborated with the best composers on the island such as Paul Abela, Dominic Galea, Paul Giordmaina, Philip Vella and Ray Agius amongst a host of others.
Her most memorable performances came in these last two participations. During last year’s festival she performed ‘Take a look’ which was written by Paul Giordmaina and Fleur Balzan. During this festival she was classified first by the jury and second in the televoting, just missing the top spot by a few points. ‘Déjà vu’, written by the winning duo Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg got 11,369 votes, coming second and missing the top spot by 500 votes.
Olivia has also participated successfully in a host of foreign festivals. She has sung in the UK, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Serbia and Montenegro, Kazakstan and a host of others. She placed first in the Lithuanian and Bulgarian festivals and second in the Kazakstan festival.
2005 marked the release of Olivia’s first cd-single which contains Déjà vu and also a remix of this song made by DJ Armani. She is currently working on her first CD-Album due out early next year.
Olivia is also a leading singer in the entertainment industry and her schedule is often packed with singing at events, hotels, concerts and other activities. She also participates in a daily television show called ‘Kalamita’ which attracts the highest viewership in the afternoon broadcasts on the island.
At an early age, she started showing interest towards singing and performing and eventually started attending singing lessons. This was followed by a string of successful participations in local song festivals. Her winning streak was formidable and her huge collection of trophies is full of memories from these past festivals when she was so young.
Her first participation in the Song for Europe Festival was actually at age 14 as backing vocalist. A year later she was also backing vocalist for William Mangion’s winning ‘This time’. She just missed participating in the Eurovision Song Contest of that year because of her young age.
In the mean time Olivia started focusing on various musical styles. Her preferred styles are R&B and soul. She likes listening to singers such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey and a host of other performers who have made their name in the black music scene.
After a few years, Olivia was encouraged to start training for jazz singing. This took most of her time, but results were soon to be forthcoming. In fact Olivia was the first Maltese singer to perform in the renowned Malta Jazz Festival together with the Paul Giordmaina Jazz Quarter. Her performance was memorable.
Olivia has participated as lead singer in the Song for Europe Festival since she was 16 years old. In the process she has collaborated with the best composers on the island such as Paul Abela, Dominic Galea, Paul Giordmaina, Philip Vella and Ray Agius amongst a host of others.
Her most memorable performances came in these last two participations. During last year’s festival she performed ‘Take a look’ which was written by Paul Giordmaina and Fleur Balzan. During this festival she was classified first by the jury and second in the televoting, just missing the top spot by a few points. ‘Déjà vu’, written by the winning duo Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg got 11,369 votes, coming second and missing the top spot by 500 votes.
Olivia has also participated successfully in a host of foreign festivals. She has sung in the UK, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Serbia and Montenegro, Kazakstan and a host of others. She placed first in the Lithuanian and Bulgarian festivals and second in the Kazakstan festival.
2005 marked the release of Olivia’s first cd-single which contains Déjà vu and also a remix of this song made by DJ Armani. She is currently working on her first CD-Album due out early next year.
Olivia is also a leading singer in the entertainment industry and her schedule is often packed with singing at events, hotels, concerts and other activities. She also participates in a daily television show called ‘Kalamita’ which attracts the highest viewership in the afternoon broadcasts on the island.
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Vertigo You're spinning me round And you're holding me down Loving…
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Ronno
One of my favorite entries ever. Never mind if Olivia sang out of tune. It has a catchy beat and chorus and epic verses like "you colour me blue, turn my passion to red, it's feeling like I become indigo"
Love the shirtless guys and the gong though. Deserved a place in the Grand Final.
Giovanni Scg
At least you admit your tastelessness
Jack Walker
Awfully underrated, always liked this song and it has a strong chorus. too bad Olivia blew it at the last note but her non-qualification and finishing 25th(4th from bottom) was another clear image that 100% televoting and one semifinal was quite poisonous, particularly for a tiny country like Malta pitted against 27 other countries mostly with plenty of neighbours.
Giovanni Scg
Malta qualified in 2004 with the same voting system. 2007 was just a shitty song
Anno
I don't understand this tbh, it sounds fine to me. She's a bit too high pitched, but I think she actually hits a quarter tone by accident and it actually sounds pretty cool. She sings more off key in other places in the song, but nothing that registered to me as super bad or that ruined the song for me.
It's not like her voice cracked or she was wildly off key.
Fábio Jesus
Agree with you, when you said: "Olivia blew it at the last note", but for me she was one of my favourites so far.
hukuk2004
I am a Turk and I am proud that my country gave this 7 points.
hope
Same bro
Sora esc
Really underrated, much better than all Maltese entries that managed to qualify
sheridan leon
this song is so painfully underrated, it's my 2nd favourite maltese entry. olivia should think about participating again!