2014
Hosted in: Malta Won by: Italy - Tu primo grande amore by Vincenzo Cantiello “Rise like a phoenix” was the song that led Conchita Wurst and Austria to win the adult contest earlier that year, but it’s not just Conchita. This year we’re happy to announce that the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is finally, after so many years of lopsided Eastern participation, healing. After one of the smallest JESCs in history took place, the field is now back to 16, and the “three” is now joined by one of the big five members for the first time in a long, long while: Italy. In addition, a warm welcome back to our inaugural winners Croatia, making 2014 the first time one of the members of the original “big three” – Croatia, UK and Spain – participated since all the way back in 2007 . Alongside the presence of Serbia AND Montenegro, separate countries but even they wouldn’t mind. The result is a quite even field here, so we’re slowly but surely going to have a quite pan-European affair in a few ye...