Born at Naxxar on 25 October 1947, Spiteri started singing at an early age and soon established herself as a leading singer in the field of light music. For a time she sung in a quartet consisting of her father and brother playing the guitar, and her younger sister, Gina.
Spiteri’s break came with the official opening of the Malta Hilton when she inaugurated that hotel’s night club and later those of Verdala and Corinthia Hotels. She obtained her first major success abroad in 1973, at the Castelbar International Song Festival in Ireland, when she won the ballad category with ‘The Opposite Ends of the World’, placing second overall. Her ‘We’ll kiss like true friends’ won the pop section.
Further success was obtained at two major festivals during which she won awards: Tokyo’s World Popular Song Festival in 1975 and in Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s. She sang twice at Sydney’s Opera house, in 1979 and 1984.
In 1992 Spiteri won the Song for Europe competition with Tfajjel Ckejken/Little Child (music by Georgina Abela, lyrics by Ray Mahoney). Later that year she took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, winning third place with the same song.
In 1996 Spiteri was awarded the Midalja ghall-Qadi tar-Repubblika (MQR).