Italy: The new date of San Remo Giovani!

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Italy’s public broadcaster, Rai, announced today that San Remo Giovani 2023 will not be held on December 13 as originally planned. Rather, December 19 is scheduled as the day for the popular festival’s final.  The reasons behind this modification are yet unknown.

 

San Remo Giovani is a sub-category of San Remo, where new artists are vying for a place in the February festival.

This year, 564 entries were submitted for San Remo Giovani. The largest proportion of this year’s participants comes from the Lazio region, followed by Lombardy and Sicily. Among the participants are 520 soloists, of whom 334 are men and 186 women. In addition, the list of participants includes 44 bands.

Of these candidates, 49 were selected for the next stage of the process, following a vote by a special jury chaired by Amadeus, the artistic director of the last five editions of the festival. The shortlisted artists will go through an audition process in the next few weeks.

At the end of the auditions, 8 artists will be selected, who will compete in the final of Sanremo Giovani 2023, which will be held at the Sanremo Casino Theatre, on 19 December. To these eight artists will be added four from the San Remo area, who will also be selected by the Rai special committee at the end of November.

The artists who win the first three places at the San Remo Giovani 2023 will be entitled to participate in the 74th San Remo Festival, the winner of which will, if they wish, have the opportunity to represent Italy in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

Last year Italy was represented by Marco Mengoni, with the song “Due Vite”, finishing in 4th place with 350 points.

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Source: RAI 

Italy: These are the outsanding names of the rumoured contestants of Sanremo 2024!

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We’re almost a month away from the long-awaited announcement of the artists taking part in Festival di Sanremo 2024, who except from claiming the Golden Lion (Sanremo’s established award), they’re also competing for the Italian representation in Eurovision 2024! Read more

Italy: 564 entries submitted for San Remo Giovani!

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As revealed today by Italy’s public broadcaster Rai, 564 entries were submitted for San Remo Giovani 2023, which is a sub-category of San Remo, where new artists are vying for a place in the February festival.

The largest proportion of this year’s participants comes from the Lazio region, followed by Lombardy and Sicily. Among the participants are 520 soloists, of whom 334 are men and 186 women. In addition, the list of participants includes 44 bands.

Of these candidates, 49 were selected for the next stage of the process, following a vote by a special jury chaired by Amadeus, the artistic director of the last five editions of the festival. The shortlisted artists will go through an audition process in the next few weeks.

At the end of the auditions, 8 artists will be selected, who will compete in the final of Sanremo Giovani 2023, which will be held at the Sanremo Casino Theatre, on 13 December. To these eight artists will be added four from the San Remo area, who will also be selected by the Rai special committee at the end of November.

The artists who win the first three places at the San Remo Giovani 2023 will be entitled to participate in the 74th San Remo Festival, the winner of which will, if they wish, have the opportunity to represent Italy in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

Last year Italy was represented by Marco Mengoni, with the song “Due Vite”, finishing in 4th place with 350 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IiOSut_4M

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Source: Rai 

Italy: Marco Mengoni releases French version of “Due Vite”!

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After giving Italy another Top 5 result and releasing an album that still gets numerous streams daily, Marco Mengoni never stops, and he is now offering us a different version of his Eurovision song, “Due Vite”, with which he got fourth place in the Contest.

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Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Italy’s song!

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With almost a month to go until the 21st Junior Eurovision contest, the song that will represent Italy in the children’s contest has just been released.

This year, RAI selected Melissa Agliottone και Ranya Moufidi, both being 14 years old, to represent the country in Junior Eurovision 2023.

Their song is now available and is titled “Un Mondo Giusto” composed by Marco Iardella and Franco Fasano, with the second also being responsible for the artistic direction of the entry in the contest, having experience in producing songs for children and teenagers.

You can listen to “Un Mondo Giusto” by Melissa Agliottone and Ranya Moufidi in the video below:

https://youtu.be/6bZ_xAmuL9A

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Junior Eurovision 2023: The Italian representatives have been revealed!

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As Junior Eurovision 2023 draws near, more and more countries are announcing the artists who will represent them in Nice.

Ranya Moufidi and Melissa Agliottone have been selected as Italian representatives, according to a recent statement by Italy’s official broadcaster, Rai. They both are 14 years old and took part in the first Italian season of The Voice. They both advanced to the final round, which Melissa eventually won.

In the upcoming days, the song is anticipated to be released. Franco Fasano, a well-known singer and composer with great experience in the creation of songs for children and adolescents, has taken over the artistic supervision of the participation.

Last year, Chanel Dilecta represented Italy with the song “Bla Bla Bla”, finishing in 11th place with 95 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEY1WPDTDsU

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Source: Rai 

Italy: Måneskin win Best Rock Video award at the MTV VMAs!

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Eurovision Song Contest 2021 winners, Måneskin, were present at yesterday’s MTV Video Music Awards that took place in New Jersey.

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Italy: Toto Cutugno dies at age 80!

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The legend of the Italian music and winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1990, Toto Cutugno, died at aged 80, in a hospital in Milan. Read more

Italy: RAI revails further details regarding Sanremo 2024 regulation!

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Following yesterday’s announcement by Amadeus regarding the changes coming to Sanremo 2024, broadcaster RAI has made further revelations about the festival’s regulation for 2024.

First and foremost, it has been confirmed that the winner of Sanremo will once again represent Italy at Eurovision 2024.

Regarding the voting, it has been clarified that in determining the five contestants who will advance to the superfinal (i.e. the second phase of the final from which the winner emerges), the combined votes of the Radio Jury and the Press Jury will hold greater influence than the Televote alone, as follows:

Source: @sanremo_en, Twitter

Finally, it was announced that song submissions close on November 27th and that Amadeus will announce the participants after December 1st.

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Source: @sanremo_en, Twitter

Italy: Amadeus announces changes to Sanremo 2024 rules and structure!

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Some announcements were made by Amadeus earlier today on Tg1 regarding the new structure and rules of the next Festival di Sanremo.

  • The first change has to do with the way the artists will be divided between the first three nights of the festival. Specifically, on the first night all the participating artists will step on stage for the first performance of their songs, while half of them will appear for their second performance on the second night and the other half on the third night. Therefore, we will have the opportunity to hear all 26 participating entries as early as the very first night.
  • The second change is about the new role of participating artists as co-hosts as well! On the second and third night, during which the artists will be separated as explained above, the half of the artists who will not perform their songs will undertake the role of presenting the other half artists alongside Amadeus. The pairing of the artists-performers and the artists-“presenters” will be decided by public draw during the press conferences of each previous day.
  • The third change concerns covers night. While in previous years artists could choose to cover a song published up to a certain decade, their choice has now been widened to include songs, from the Italian and international repertoire, published up to 2023.
  • The fourth change sees the replacement of the ever-present demoscopic jury by a new radio jury in the voting procedures, which will include national and local radio stations selected with the criterion of adequately representing the entire Italian territory. The factors that will determine the results, along with the radio jury (second, third, fourth night & superfinal) are completed by the well-known jury of journalists (first, fourth night & superfinal) and the also known televoting (second, third, fourth night & both phases of the voting in the final)

As for the number of participating artists, Amadeus announced that they will be 26, 23 of whom will be selected by him and the remaining three of whom will come from Sanremo Giovani, taking place on the 20th of December.

Sanremo 2024 will take place from 6 to 10 February.

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Source: La Reppublica