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Not My Soul
"Not My Soul" is a song by Maltese singer Destiny Chukunyere. It represented Malta and was the winning song at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ..., Bulgaria. Music video The music video was released on 26 October 2015. It features Chukunyere performing the song amongst colourful backdrops. References External links Eurovision.tv Junior Eurovision Song Contest winning songs 2015 singles 2015 songs Destiny (singer) songs {{Malta-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destiny Chukunyere
Destiny Chukunyere (born 29 August 2002), known mononymously as Destiny, is a Maltese singer. She won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015, where she represented Malta with the song " Not My Soul". In 2017, she participated in the eleventh series of ''Britain's Got Talent'' and finished 6th in the second semi-final and thus was eliminated. She won the second season of the Maltese version of ''The X Factor'' and was chosen to represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song " All of My Love" before the contest was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Destiny represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, this time with the song " Je me casse", where she finished in 7th place with 255 points. Early life Chukunyere was born on 29 August 2002. She lives in Birkirkara and attended a secondary school in Ħamrun. Her father is Igbo Nigerian former footballer Ndubisi Chukunyere, while her mother is Maltese. She has two younger sibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music Music genre, genre, originating from African Americans, African-American musicians in the 1980s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, funk, Hip-hop, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive Record producer, record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. Electronic music, Electronic influences and the use of hip hop or electronic dance music, dance-inspired beat (music), beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop may be reduced and smoothed out. Contemporary R&B vocalists often use melisma, and since the mid-1980s, R&B rhythms have been combined with elements of hip hop culture and music, pop culture and pop music. Precursors According to Geoffrey Himes speaking in 1989, the progressive soul movement of the early 1970s "expanded the musical and lyrical boundaries of [R&B] in ways that haven't been equaled since" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American culture, African-American African-American neighborhood, communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body movements, are an important hallmark of soul. Other characteristics are a Call and response (music), call and response between the lead and Backing vocalist, backing vocalists, an especially tense vocal sound, and occasional Musical improvisation, improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music is known for reflecting African-American identity and stressing the importance of African-American culture. Soul has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues, and primarily combines elements of gospel, R&B and jazz. The genre emerged from the power struggle to increase black Americans' awareness of their African ancestry, as a newfound consciousness led to the creation of music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funk Music
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. It deemphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove (music), groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drum kit, percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music. Funk typically consists of a complex percussive groove with Rhythm section, rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that create a "hypnotic" and "danceable" feel. It uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, and dominant seventh chords with altered ninths and thirteenths. Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the Beat (music)#Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muxu
Matthew Mercieca (born 19 July 1990), known professionally as Muxu, is a Maltese singer and songwriter. He is one of Malta's leading R&B artists, with multiple number-one singles, and has received various local awards. Career Mercieca started his career, as a songwriter co-writing with Maltese producer Jay Omaro. In 2008, he released his first single "Beat My Drum" which reached the number-one spot on the Maltese charts. It led him to be nominated "Best Newcomer" at the 2008 Bay Music Awards. In 2009, he was signed to the UK label Play Records but was dropped after a year citing 'artistic differences'. "Still Missing You" featuring Local singer and known DJ Talitha was released in late October 2009 and brought Mercieca back to the stage in Malta. Junior Eurovision In November 2014 Muxu wrote the lyrics for the song Diamonds for Frederica Falzon and the song finished in fourth place. In November 2015 Maltese singer Destiny Chukunyere performed a song with lyrics written by her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think (Aretha Franklin Song)
"Think" is a song written by American singer Aretha Franklin and Ted White, and first recorded by Franklin. It was released as a single in 1968, from her '' Aretha Now'' album. The song reached No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Franklin's seventh top 10 hit in the United States. The song also reached number 1 on the magazine's Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles, becoming her sixth single to top the chart. Franklin re-recorded the song in the Atlantic Records New York studio for the soundtrack of the 1980 film ''The Blues Brothers'' and in 1989 for the album '' Through the Storm''. ''Pitchfork'' placed it at number 15 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s". ''Billboard'' described the single as a "pulsating swinger with another wild performance" that had a similar feel to "Respect" and which it expected would quickly reach a million sales. ''Cash Box'' said it has "wailing lyrics of a hard-luck love affair" and "tremendous rhythmic drive." Chart performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta In The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Malta selected their Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 artist through a national selection on 11 July 2015, while their song was selected internally. The twenty acts competing to represent Malta were released on 26 June 2015. They performed covers or non-Eurovision candidate songs during the national final, and the winner's Junior Eurovision song was revealed at a later date. Destiny Chukunyere represented Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria with the song, Not My Soul. Malta won the competition with a record of 185 points, breaking the previous record held by Spain in the 2004 contest. National final Each of the 20 participants sang a song of their own choice. After all of them had performed, the jury and televoting cast their votes - each juror had a 25% weighting in the final result (so 75% overall), with the televoting also having a 25% share. The contestants were ranked from 1-20, with 1 being the best. Destiny Chukunyere was announced as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 was the thirteenth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and took place, for the first time, in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian national broadcaster Bulgarian National Television, BNT was the host broadcaster for the event. The final took place on 21 November 2015 and was held at the in Sofia. Poli Genova, a Bulgarian singer and former representative of Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 (and later the Eurovision Song Contest 2016), hosted the show. A total of seventeen countries participated, with and making their debuts. and returned after being absent since the and contests, respectively. and withdrew after returning in the , while withdrew for the first time since 2008. The winner of the contest was Destiny (singer), Destiny Chukunyere, who represented Malta with the song "Not My Soul". and finished in second and third place, respectively. This was Malta's second victory in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia
Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar (river), Iskar river and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Known as Serdica in Classical antiquity, antiquity, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic settlement of Southeast Europe, Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Pannonian Avars, Avars, and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the First Bulgarian Empire by Khan (title), Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantine Empire, Byzantines ended Bulgarian rule until 1194, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Eurovision Song Contest Winning Songs
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2015 Singles
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