Malta: X-Factor Malta’s second live show results
This evening took place the second live show of X Factor Malta , the show that will determine the country’s Eurovision 2020 representative. A total of 10 acts took the stage and gave their best in order to remain in the talent show and come closer to win the ticket to Rotterdam.
The Story so Far
The X-factor kicked off with dozens of auditions which led to the 120 acts that went on to the bootcamp phase. After the two round judgement during the bootcamp round, the qualifiers divided in 4 groups (The Girls, the Boys, the Groups and the Overs) had to go through the Chair Challenge round, where only six acts from each group were to qualify the next stage of Judges’ houses after performing on stage. Further on we saw initially the 3 Boys and 3 Girls that qualified from Judges’ Houses to the Live shows followed by the 3 Groups and 3 Overs that made it through too. The six acts of each group had to perform before their mentor and his guest , while he had to choose which three will follow him to the live shows phase.
The Live Shows’ contestants
Thus a total of 12 acts reached the live show phase in order to manage to remain in the 2nd live show. The four groups competing in the live shows are:
The Girls: Justine Shorfid, Destiny Chukunyere, Jasmine Abela
The Boys: Kyle Cutajar, Karl Schembri, Dav.Jr
The Overs (25+): Paul Anthony, Ed Abdilla, Celine Agius
The Groups : Yazmin and James, FAITH, Bloodline
Last week the first live show took place after which 2 acts were eliminated and 10 qualified to the second live show.
Second Live Show’s performances
The 10 acts took the stage and performed songs influenced by the topic of the title “Guilty Pleasures”. Watch below the amazing performances of the 10 contestants by clicking on the song titles:
- F.A.I.T.H. – “Wannabe” (Spice Girls)
- Celine Agius – “Sweet Dreams” (Eurythmics)
- Jasmine Abela – “Material Girl” (Madonna)
- Dav.Jr – Umbrella (Rihanna)
- Justine Shorfid – “Dance Monkey” (Tones & I)
- Bloodline – “Forever Young” (Alphaville)
- Yazmin & James – “Time of My Life” (Dirty Dancing)
- Kyle Cutajar – “Never Gonna Give You Up” (Rick Astley)
- Destiny Chukunyere – “I Will Survive” (Gloria Gaynor)
- Karl Schembri – L’Amour Toujours (Gigi D’Agostino)
THE RESULTS
Once the live performances were completed, the contestant receiving the less votes went home directly while the next two contestants with the lowest votes had a sing off and the judges were to determine who they were sending home. In case of a deadlock in the judge’s voting the outcome is determined by the public voting.
The public vote eliminated directly Jasmine Abela (Girls team) who received the less votes among all contestants and left the show.
The next two acts with the lowest number of votes were Dav.Jr (Boys’ team) and Yazmin & James from the Groups, who had a sing off before the 4 judges , performing a song of their choice.
The judges decided that the one that had to leave the show was Dav.Jr (Boys’ team)
Therefore Jasmine Abela (Girls team) and Dav.Jr (Boys’ team) were eliminated on this second live show. The X-factor will continue next Sunday with the 8 remaining acts performing in the 3rd live show.
