Emma Muscat: 'I never felt such a big responsibility on my shoulders'

It’s been a meteoric few years for EMMA MUSCAT and as the young singer-songwriter prepares to give the performance of her life tonight, she tells Adriana Bishop how she plans to face the Eurovision pressure and what the song means to her.
When Emma Muscat was just seven years old, she enchanted her audience singing about the “shining, shimmering, splendid” world of Aladdin. It was her first-ever public performance singing at the piano, and it would eventually open “a whole new world” for the uber-talented Emma. 
Now she will be stepping in the spotlight of arguably the most dazzling music stage of the year, and possibly of her career so far, but she knows this is no fairytale. The pressure is real. 
“I am really excited for this whole journey. I never felt such a big responsibility on my shoulders,” she says over Zoom. In the five years since she appeared on the Italian TV talent show Amici di Maria de Filippi winning everyone’s hearts if not the judges’ points, Emma’s career has enjoyed the kind of success that every aspiring artist dreams of but is only achieved through nothing more magical than hard work and pure talent.

While Amici brought her fame and a contract with...