Tonight in Italy was the Final of Sanremo Giovani! The contest brought together young and emerging artists from around the country to compete for three places at the big Sanremo Music Festival in February. Chosen through a combination of direct auditions with the broadcaster and a parallel selection called Area Sanremo, these were the twelve artists who performed tonight: Grenbaud- Mama CLARA- …
This morning, RAI announced the 27 Big Artists who will compete at the Sanremo Music Festival in February. Combined with the three winners of Sanremo Giovani to be determined later this month, there will be 30 artists competing in total. The Big Artists were announced on the news program TG1 by musical director Amadeus, who will be hosting Sanremo for the …
After a week of rehearsals, technical snafus, and building anticipation, Eurovision kicked off tonight at the Pala Alpitour arena in Turin! In all, 17 acts performed, competing for 10 slots in Saturday’s Grand Final. They were: 🇦🇱 ALBANIA – Ronela Hajati – Sekret 🇱🇻 LATVIA – Citi Zēni – Eat Your Salad 🇱🇹 LITHUANIA – Monika Liu – Sentimentai 🇨🇭 SWITZERLAND – Marius Bear – Boys Do Cry …
It’s crazy to imagine that we are already preparing for rehearsals in Turin, but it’s here Eurovision fans! Earlier last month crews from all over began construction on the stage in the PalaOlimpico arena, setting up the rigging for lights, the stage floor, the green room, and more. However, in the last few days more information about the festivities across …
It wasn’t all that certain that Sanremo would even take place this year due to the current covid-19 situation in Europe and the world. Nonetheless, they found compromises and decided to hold it without audience. Tonight we saw the first show of 5 and we found out how half of the songs sounded like tonight! The show started off as …
The Italian broadcaster RAI announced that the 70th installment of Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo, or commonly simply referred to as Sanremo, will not have an audience when the show kicks off in early March. After public discussions about how to proceed which caused a healthy amount of debate and disagreement between the Italian government and RAI, it was …
The second round of our annual Forum Ranking Game has concluded following the deadline for votes on Saturday 15th February, and we have a new leader – it’s Latvia! A new entry straight in at number one this week, Samanta Tīna’s “Still Breathing” earned the most points out of the six entries from the voting members of our forum to …
Alrighty then, ’twas the night before Sanremo, and plenty of national selections are a-stirring. However, which one of those is as iconic as the Sanremo Music Festival, the very contest that Eurovision was modeled after? All 24 Big Acts were released on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 and Wednesday, February 5, 2020, and Daniel, James, and Roy have reviewed them. By this …
