Morena (Margaret Camilleri, full name Margerita Camilleri Fenech
) (b. 1984) is a singer from Sannat, Gozo, Malta. "Morena" means "

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", which fits her

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Morena in Eurovision

In 2006, Morena entered the

Malta Song for Europe Malta has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 34 times since its debut in . The contest is broadcast in Malta on the PBS channel, TVM. Malta has yet to win the contest, but is the only non-winning country to have achieved four top th ...

competition with Paul Giordimaina and the song "Time" they ended 9th with 3046 votes. Two years later Morena entered

once again, with 2 songs, "Casanova" and "

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". They both passed through from the semi-final to the final. "Casanova" ended 5th with 3,607 televotes and 40 Jury Votes, while "Vodka" won the contest with 49 points from the jury and a total of 16,979 votes from the public (33%).The dark one relishes the limelight
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in Belgrade on 22 May. However, she did not make it to the final evening.

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