Malta’s current Eurovision winner Gianluca Bezzina, together with runner-up and former Swedish Pop Idol Kevin Borg and three-times Eurovision song winner Chiara, took part in a spectacular Leone Goes Pop concert in Gozo last Saturday with the Leone Band.

Victoria’s main square It-Tokk, was packed out with a large crowd who had gathered to watch a two-hour-long colourful spectacle, that included instrumental medleys from the repertoires of Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, Elton John, Sinead O’Connor, Pet Shop Boys, Elvis, The Beatles, Abba and Zucchero.

Gozitan singer Deborah C performed Alcazar’s Cyring at the Discoteque while Kevin Borg got the crowd in the swing when he interpreted Coldplay’s Viva la Vida, and Living La Vida Loca, Living On A Prayer and With Every Bit of Me – three songs that helped him rise the ladder of success in the Swedish Pop Idol (2008).

The audience loved Gianluca Bezzina’s grand entrance on a truck – emulating Tomorrow’s music video and he had quite some difficulty in going through the crowds for his red-carpet parade before singing his hit-track Tomorrow, which he finished with conductor and bandsmen on a wooden bench just like his performance in Sweden.

Likewise, Chiara took the show to new heights when she sang The Greatest Love of All, Euphoria and Angel which was directed by the band’s Assistant Conductor Joseph Debrincat.

Leone Goes Pop ended with a grand party as the Leone Band celebrated its 150th anniversary with free-flowing champagne for all and stage and rooftop fireworks as the band danced the Samba, the conductor danced ‘Gangnam Style’ and together with the singers rounded the night of sheer pleasure with It’s Raining Men, Fame and John Miles’ Music.

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