Claudia Faniello
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Claudia Faniello is a Maltese singer and artist.
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Claudia was born and raised in Malta, along with her siblings Fabrizio and Miriana. At the age of 12, Claudia began to participate in a variety of television shows and participating also in many festivals and placing in top positions. In 2001, at the Phoenicia Hotel in Malta, she won the 'Talentissimi Juniors' - a show organised by 'Actreact'. A year later she sang live with Malta's National Orchestra in aid of impoverished children at the University of Malta. She was accompanied by Malta's ambassadors in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, Julie & Ludwig and also her brother Fabrizio.
At the Mediterranean Conference Festival, in 2003 she sang at a concert with Fabrizio Faniello while a year later she sang again with the National Orchestra with Nadine Axisa, Fabrizio and Philippa. In 2005 she classified fourth on 'Hotspot' - a TV Show programmed on NET TV. At the same year she was given a scholarship. The year 2006 was the year, that after the experience in television she entered in the Malta Song For Europe Festival with the song 'High Alert!' - a song composed by Ray Agius. At the same contest she won the award for best new-comer.
She won the Festival Kanzunetta Indipendenza 2006 with the song 'Ma Nafx' - a song composed by Ray Agius. In 2007 she passed for the Malta Song for Europe 2007 Semi-Final Festival with thе song 'L-Imħabba Għamja' (Love is Blind). But she wasn't part of the six songs that were eligible to pass for the final. She classified in the 7th position with 5% of the votes.
In Summer 2007 Claudia Faniello launched her latest single, "Wild Flower" - a song composed by Aldo Spiteri and written by Deo Grech.
In 2008 she passed for the Go Malta Song for Europe Semi-Final Festival with two songs 'Caravaggio' and 'Sunrise'. This would be to find the Maltese representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Both songs passed into the final eight songs. In the final of this festival she finished 2nd with the song Caravaggio, a song about the Italian artist with the same name and 3rd with the song Sunrise. She will release these two singles as a double A-Side in Malta.
