Ira Losco

Ira Losco
Background Information
Origin	Sliema, Malta
Birth date	31 July 1981
Death date	N/A
Age	44
Eurovision Song Contest - 1st Entry
Year	2002
Country	Malta
Song	7th Wonder
Semi Position	--
Semi Points	--
Final Position	2nd
Final Points	164
Eurovision Song Contest - 2nd Entry
Year	2016
Country	Malta
Song	Walk On Water
Semi Position	3rd
Semi Points	209
Final Position	12th
Final Points	153

Ira Losco is a Maltese singer. She started her career in the group Tiara but they broke up months before she made her first appearance at Eurovision.

She represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 performing the song 7th Wonder, finishing in second place which at the time was Malta's best finish in the contest before Chiara Siracusa equaled it in 2005. In 2014, she co-hosted the Maltese national final alongside 2013 representative Gianluca Bezzina.

She returned to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm performing the song Walk On Water, despite winning the Maltese final with another song ("Chameleon"). She finished in 12th place in the final. At the time of her performance in Stockholm, she was pregnant with her first child.

In 2018, Ira joined the judging panel of The X Factor Malta, which would ultimately choose the artist to represent the country at the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv. She was given the boys' category. She returned for the second season in 2020 and was given the girls' category, mentoring 2015 Junior Eurovision winner Destiny Chukunyere and teammate Justine Shorfid to first and second place respectively.

She was one of the five jurors for Malta in the 2021 contest in Rotterdam.