The eleventh artist in our Who Is series for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is Yulan Law from Malta.
Yulan Law is fourteen years old. She began singing at the age of five and started learning piano and violin shortly afterwards. She is of partial Chinese descent through her father Yau-Mun Law, who is the captain of the Maltese football club Santa Venera Lightnings.
Yulan has taken part in various singing competitions in Malta and internationally, including Sanremo Junior 2019. In 2020, she was a finalist on the first season of Malta’s Got Talent. Earlier this year, she finished runner-up on the first season of The Voice Kids Malta. Her coach on the show was Destiny, who won Junior Eurovision 2015.
Apart from music, Yulan also hopes to study medicine and become a doctor one day.
Yulan attempted to represent Malta at Junior Eurovision on three occasions before this year. In 2019, she reached the final of the selection. In 2020, she performed “Deck of Cards” in a duet with Gianluca Cilia. In 2021, she performed “Change” and “On My Way” in the final, finishing third with the latter.
Yulan was selected to represent Malta after winning the Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023. She was selected using a combination of jury and public voting. Her entry for Junior Eurovision 2023 was selected through an open call after her win.
The song that Yulan will perform in Nice is called “Stronger”. It was written and composed by John-Emil Johansson, Sandra Wikström, Isak Alvedahl, Elise Hedengren and Yulan herself.
Image Source: PBS / Matthias Brancaleone
Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Malta debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and has gone on to win the contest twice. In 2013 on their return to the competition in Kyiv, Gaia Cauchi won the competition with “The Start”. She was the first winner of a Eurovision event for Malta. In 2015, Destiny Chukunyere took victory in Sofia, Bulgaria with the song “Not My Soul”. Malta finished last at the 2005 contest in Belgium, 2019 edition in Poland and the 2022 edition in Armenia. Malta joins North Macedonia as the Junior Eurovision country with the most last place finishes, finishing last three times.
