Italy: Mina to host Sanremo 2025!

After Amadeus announced his retirement from the position of presenter and artistic director of the Sanremo festival. Sanremo 2024 was be the fifth and final festival run by the popular Italian TV presenter.

As he stated back in the days:

I say it officially: this is my last Festival. Five in a row is a lot. I am honored to have drawn Pippo Baudo and Mike Bongiorno. If in a few years they asked me I could go back, yes in the future but now I have to stop.

During that period, there were many rumors about Amadeus to host and artistically direct the next two editions of the Sanremo Festival, 2025 and 2026. Unfortunately, RAI denied that rumor with the withrawal of Amadeus being official.

The Italan public broadcaster is currently searching for the new presenter of the famous music show. Many names and rumors are heard until today, but recently it became known that the  famous Italian singer Mina is among the candidates to host the next edition of Sanremo.

According to La Verità, in fact, Mina is among the candidates to inherit the artistic direction of Sanremo from the record-breaking host. The there were circulations about the fact that Mina would host back in 2019 and it seems that this is happening again.

 

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Who is Mina?

Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, known as Mina, was born on 25 March 1940. Mina is an Italian singer and actress and she was formed as dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her vocal abilities at three-octave vocal range, soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.

Mina was making history back in the days by selling over 150 million records worldwide, she is the best-selling Italian musical artist. Mina dominated the country’s charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts, and charted at Billboard Hot 100.

What do you think about Mina being the host of the next edition of Sanremo?

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