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Sanremo 2024: 15 artists performed tonight, Geolier wins Second Serata!

The 74th edition of the iconic San Remo Festival, the quintessential celebration of Italian music, continues with another unpredictable and iconic show. The second serata was co-hosted by Amadeus and Giorgia from the stage of the renowned Ariston Theatre in San Remo, and 15 of the 30 artists performed on staged ,in which the public and the radio jury were …

Italy: Guests include Achille Lauro, Elodie and… Zlatan

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 …

Nessuna sorpresa! Italian politicians howl in outrage over Mahmood’s Sanremo victory

Controversial Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have been on the defensive today after a series of tweets passive-aggressively attacking the choice of Mahmood as winner of the 69th annual Sanremo Music Festival this weekend. Italian politicians griping about the annual Sanremo Music Festival, which is Italy’s unique national selection process and was the inspiration for the …

RAI Announces the potential Candidates for Sanremo Giovani

[AdSense-B] The Italian broadcaster RAI announced the 69 candidates for Sanremo Giovani last week, who each attended a live audition in Rome on Monday. This shortlist was created from over 670 submissions from new and upcoming musicians, and after the auditions, only 24 lucky artists will move on to compete in this new television show. We will not know which …

Italy: Luisa Sobral turns down invitation to enter San Remo

[AdSense-B] Luisa Sobral, the composer of the entry “Amar pelos dois” which brought Portugal their first ever Eurovision victory in 2017 with her brother Salvador, has revealed in a wide-ranging interview with Portuguese online newspaper Observador that she was invited to perform in this year’s edition of the San Remo festival but turned down the chance. The jazz singer-songwriter and …

San Remo 2017: Is a gorilla coming to Kyiv?

After five long, but exciting nights of the world-famous festival San Remo, tonight it was time to conclude the 67th edition. Sixteen performers took to the stage and only three proceeded to the second round of voting and they were: Fiorella Mannoia with “Che sia benedetta” Ermal Meta with “Vietato morire” and Francesco Gabbani with “Occidentali’s Karma” In the end Francesco won and thus he …

Stadio wins Festival di San Remo

It was the longest show of this SuperSaturday, but we got the winner of the 66th Festival di San Remo after five days of glorious shows. Tonight sixteen acts performed and three of them proceeded to the superfinal. They were the band Stadio, Francesca Michielin and Deborah & Giovanni. Out of the three Stadio has earned the right to become the next Italian representative, …

Rumore, rumore…

The San Remo festival is now over. Il Volo has been chosen to represent Italy in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. If you ever thought that San Remo was all about music, think twice! There are lots of rumours going on every year and the 2014 edition could be no exception to this. Eurofans play a huge role in the spread …

Italy: 20 candidates announced

The 20 established artists taking part in the Campioni section of San Remo 2015 have been announced. One of these acts – whichever artist wins San Remo 2015 – will be offered the chance by Italian broadcaster RAI to represent Italy at Eurovision 2015. Some familiar names crop up in the list of 20, including Italy’s 2012 singer Nina Zilli, …

Italy planning to select through San Remo

The rules of the prestigious San Remo festival in 2015 have been published and it seems that, unlike in 2014, Italian broadcaster RAI will be using the contest once again to select the Big 5 country’s representative. The recently published rules state; The winning artist of the “CAMPIONI” section will have the right to participate representing Italy at the 2015 …

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