San Marino reveal 10 Big Artists for Una Voce, including Spagna, Burak Yeter and… Achille Lauro?!

Milan, 8 February 2022

San Marinese broadcaster SMRTV have just finished revealing their nine big names for Unz Voce! As you know, the Italian microstate is attempting a national selection named “Unz Voce Per San Marino”. The winner will end up representing San Marino in the second semifinal, held on 12 May in Turin.

The Grand Final of “Una Voce” will feature 19 acts. Nine Emerging Artists who went through the audition process (current semifinalists include Oxa Sia, a German-Brazillian drag artist who co-wrote Elina Tsagrinou’s “El Diablo” and Elis Mraz who competed in the Czech selection with “Imma be“), and ten Big Artists who have established musical carreers in Italy and beyond.

The Ten Big Artists have now been revealed and contain a few surprises. Here’s the full list of names:

• Achille Lauro
• Blind
• Burak Yeter & Alessandro Coli
• Cristina Ramos
• Fabry & Labiuse ft. Miodio
• Francesco Monti
• Ivana Spagna
• Matteo Faustini
• Tony Cicco & Deshedus & Alberto Fortis
• Valerio Scanu

It  almost feels like a hoax. First of all, Achille Lauro, the camp rock singer who participated in San Remo this Saturday (and created a controversy by fake-baptising himself on the stage).

Other recognisable names are the rock band Miodio, San Marino’s first participants (and the only act from San Marino amongst the Big Artists), 80s SynthWave Icon Spagna and former San Remo winner Valerio Scanu. Two artists from outside of Italy have been invited, those being award-winning Turkish DJ Burak Yeter and Cristina Ramos, an Opera singer who won Spain’s Got Talent by covering AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell“.

The Big Artists are pre-qualified for the Grand Final of Una Voce on 19 February, where they will battle the 9 Emerging Artists and each other for the right to represent San Marino in Eurovision 2022.

San Marino will compete in the first half of the second semifinal, where they will face the likes of Belgium, Israel, Sweden and Serbia, amongst others.

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