Italian national broadcaster RAI have announced the artists who will be taking part in Festival di Sanremo 2025. The winner of the 75th edition of Sanremo, officially known as the Italian Song Festival, will be granted first refusal rights to become Italy’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, to be held in Basel, Switzerland in May. 30 artists have …
After previously confirming the return of its new national format, Una Voce per San Marino, for the 2023 Eurovision season, Sammarinese broadcaster RTV announced further details today and put out an open call for submissions. Like in the 2022 edition, performers of all nationalities are invited to throw their hats into the ring. (Last year’s semi-finals included acts from Italy, …
We’ve passed the halfway point of the tape releases, and are now at the midway point of the second semi-final as well. We’ve learned that Australia and Cyprus have chosen not to release their live on tape performances publicly, so they join Netherlands, Moldova, Ukraine, Norway, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Czech Republic in this regard. Armenia’s tape was released publicly two …
We’re into Day 6 by now, but only into Day 2 when it comes to rehearsal access for the Press. As a reminder, the first 4 days were used as closed rehearsals for all the semi-finalist performances, meaning that the first visible rehearsals for the press, are the second rehearsals for the artists. Today, the second rehearsals continued for the …
San Marino has chosen a Eurovision artist, and it’s a familiar, tattooed face. Tonight, during the final round of Una Voce per San Marino, the nine remaining Emerging Artists joined the nine previously announced Established Artists in a friendly throw down between David and Goliath. Would any of these scrappy newcomers have what it takes to beat out the bigger …
San Marino is rounding the final lap in its week-long Eurovision national final marathon. Tonight was the Emerging Artist final at Una Voce Per Sanremo, with 17 songs vying for one of nine spots in the Grand Final. Competing were the 12 acts who placed top three in the first four semis. They were: (Click the artists’ names to view …
The last batch of emerging artists competed at Una Voce per San Marino tonight, but this semi was just for the home team. Over the past three nights, 60 international up-and-comers took their first steps toward representing San Marino at Eurovision 2022. Tonight, things were a little different. As opposed the 20 acts that competed each previous show, only six …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. Some days you feel like Bart Simpson and you’re writing “Sanremo Music Festival is not technically a Eurovision national selection for Italy” over and over again on a chalkboard. And …
Måneskin‘s pop culture ascendancy continues! The music video for the Italian glam rock band’s new single, ‘MAMMAMIA’ dropped today. Directed by Spanish filmmaker Rei Nadal, the cheeky video shows Damiano being murdered by Ethan, Victoria, and Thomas in three different scenarios. But lest you think the subject matter is too dark, the video contains all the wit, grime, and sex …
Italy’s Sanremo has long been the height of Italian musical culture and it’s not surprising to see that next spring’s festival will once again attract some of Italy’s biggest stars! Among the guests will be rapper and two-time participant Achille Lauro (2019 with “Rolls Royce” and 2020 with “Ne me frego”) and singer Elodie (well-known for her entry “Andromeda” from …
