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Destiny Chukunyere is a Maltese singer who began her career in 2013. To date, she has released five singles.

She won the right to represent her home country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Not My Soul" and won it with 185 points, becoming the highest-scoring winner up to that point. She was the second winner from her home country, following Gaia Cauchi achieving the nation's first win two years earlier.

Following her win, she appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm as a special guest. She then recorded the theme song for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Valetta, Malta.

In 2017, she auditioned for the eleventh series of Britain's Got Talent where she performed the song "Think" by Aretha Franklin, receiving high praise from the judges and thus qualifying for the live shows. In the semi finals, she performed the song "R.E.S.P.E.C.T" but failed to qualify to the final.

She returned to the Eurovision stage at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv as a backing singer for Michela Pace who represented the country. 

The same year she auditioned for the second season of the national syndication of The X Factor, where she was mentored by the country's representative in the 2002 Contest and 2016 Contest Ira Losco, and went on to win, earning to the chance to represent her home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, with the song "All of My Love". However, the Contest was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

It was announced that she would return to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam with the song "Je me casse", which was seen as one of the favorites to win, even topping the bookies' odds at one stage. It topped the vote in the first semi-final, successfully qualifying for the final where it finished in 7th place with 255 points.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Winners
Dino JelušićMaría IsabelKsenia SitnikTolmachevy SistersAlexey ZhigalkovichBzikebiRalf MackenbachVladimir ArzumanyanCANDYAnastasiya PetrykGaia CauchiVincenzo CantielloDestiny ChukunyereMariam MamadashviliPolina BogusevichRoksana WęgielViki GaborValentinaMalénaLissandroZoé Clauzure
Winning Songs
"Ti si moja prva ljubav" • "Antes muerta que sencilla" • "My vmeste" • "Vesenniy Jazz" • "S druz'yami" • "Bzzz..." • "Click Clack" • "Mama" • "Candy Music" • "Nebo" • "The Start" • "Tu primo grande amore" • "Not My Soul" • "Mzeo" • "Wings" • "Anyone I Want to Be" • "Superhero" • "J'imagine" • "Qami Qami" • "Oh maman!" • "Cœur"
Contests
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Countries
AlbaniaArmeniaAustraliaAzerbaijanBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCyprusDenmarkEstoniaFranceGeorgiaGermanyGreeceIrelandIsraelItalyKazakhstanLatviaLithuaniaNorth MacedoniaMaltaMoldovaMontenegroThe NetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSan MarinoSerbiaSerbia and MontenegroSloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraineUnited KingdomWales
Miscellaneous
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Songs
"Not My Soul" • "Love" • "Prva ljubezen" • "Volshebstvo (Magic)" • "Dambaje" • "Mechta (Dream)" • "Lenina pesma" • "My Girls" • "Colour of Hope" • "Gabede" • "Pochny z sebe - Start with Yourself" • "Réalta na mara" • "Oluja" • "Mirror" • "Million Lights" • "Viva" • "Pletenka – Braid of Love"
Performers
Destiny ChukunyereMikaLina KuduzovićRuslan AslanovMishela RapoMikhail SmirnovLena StamenkovićBella PaigeGabriela Yordanova & Ivan StoyanovThe VirusAnna TrincherAimee BanksJana MirkovićKamilla IsmailovaShalisaChiara & MartinaIvana Petkovska & Magdalena Aleksovska
Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Songs
Final
"Mon alliée (The Best in Me)" • "Violent Thing" • "Fai rumore" • "Universo" • "My Last Breath"
Semi Final 1
"Don't Break Me" • "Da vidna" • "On Fire" • "You" • Voda" • "Release Me" • "Divlji vjetre" • "Running" • "Attention" • "Solovey" • "Alcohol You"
Semi Final 2
"Alive" • "Kemama" • "What Love Is" • "Superg!rl" • "Think About Things" • "Prison" • "Empires" • "Fall from the Sky" • "Chains on You" • "Take Me as I Am" • "Still Breathing"
Participants
Final
Tom LeebBen DolićDiodatoJeangu MacrooyBlas CantóJames Newman
Semi Final 1
MontaigneVALThe RoopVasilAna SokličEfendiHooverphonicDamir KedžoSandroEden AleneDestiny ChukunyereUlrikkeRoxenGo A
Semi Final 2
Vincent BuenoBenny CristoUku SuvisteStefaniaDaði & GagnamagniðNatalia GordienkoAlicja SzemplińskaArilena AraAthena ManoukianTornike KipianiSamanta Tīna
Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Songs
Final
"Zitti e buoni" • "Voilà" • "Tout l'Univers" • "10 Years" • "Shum" • "Dark Side" • "Je me casse" • "Discoteque" • "Russian Woman" • "Last Dance" • "Growing Up is Getting Old" • "Love Is on My Side" • "Sugar" • "Voices" • "Loco Loco" • "El diablo" • "Set Me Free" • "Fallen Angel" • "The Wrong Place" • "Mata Hari" • "Karma" • "Adrenalina" • "Birth of a New Age" • "Voy a quedarme" • "I Don't Feel Hate" • "Embers"
Semi Final 1
"Tick-Tock" • "Amnesia" • "Amen" • "Technicolour" • "Here I Stand" • "Maps"
Semi Final 2
"Øve os på hinanden" • "Amen" • "The Lucky One" • "The Ride" • "Omaga" • "You" • "The Moon Is Rising"
Participants
Final
MåneskinBarbara PraviGjon's TearsDaði & GagnamagniðGo ABlind ChannelDestinyThe RoopManizhaStefaniaVictoriaThe Black MambaNatalia GordienkoTusseHurricaneElena TsagrinouEden AleneTixHooverphonicEfendiAnxhela PeristeriSenhitJeangu MacrooyBlas CantóJendrikJames Newman
Semi Final 1
AlbinaRoxenAna SokličMontaigneVasilLesley Roy
Semi Final 2
Fyr & FlammeVincent BuenoUku SuvisteRafałBenny CristoTornike KipianiSamanta Tīna
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