San Marino: Loredana Bertè with “Pazza” at Una Voce per San Marino!

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SMRTV, the Sanmarinese national broadcaster, revealed the list of the nine established artists who will participate at Una Voce per San Marino 2024 and it spread a feeling of surprise among the fans. One of these artists will be Loredana Bertè with her song “Pazza“, with which she also took part at this year’s Sanremo.

According to the announcement of SMRTV, the negotiations with Loredana began a few days ago and it is still not completely confirmed whether she will appear at Una Voce per San Marino. In case Loredana does not participate eventually, she will not be replaced by another artist.

If all goes well and Loredana does in fact, take part in the Sanmarinese national final, she will do so with her Sanremo song “Pazza”, which brought her, finally, to the seventh (7th) place of the Festival.

Besides, Malmö has a strong emotional value for Loredana as a city, because it is where her sister Mia Martini -who is no longer alive-, represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992 with “Rapsodia” and ended up forth (4th).

It is noted that the Grand Final of Una Voce per San Marino is set to air on February 24th in Teatro Nuovo of Dogana.

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San Marino: The eight established artists of the Final of Una voce per San Marino 2024 revealed!

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A few moments ago the national broadcaster of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, RTV, announced the eight established artists as well as the winner of Casperaki who are going to compete directly at the final of Una voce per San Marino 2024!

The eight established that are going to perform in the final of Una voce per San Marino 2024 are as per below:

  1. Aimie Atkinson
  2. Aaron Sibley
  3. Jalisse
  4. La Rua
  5. Loredana Bertè
  6. Marcella Bella
  7. Pago
  8. Wlady, DJ Jad, Corona & Ice MC
  9. Dana Gillespie – The Last Polar Bear (winner of Casperaki)

Amongst the aforemntioned artists the two names that stand out are of Jalisse, who represented Italy in the 1997 edition of Eurovision with Fiumi di Parole finishing fourth, and of Loredana Berte, one of the most famous Italian performers who participated in this year’s edition of Sanremo. An other name worth to be mentioned is that of Aaron Sibley who took part in the inaugural edition of Una voce per San Marino 2022 and ended up in the third place. Last but not least the winner of Casperaki is Dana Gillespie with The Last Polar Bear. 

The programme of Una voce per San Marino 2024 is the following:

  • 19 February – First Semi-Final
  • 20 February – Second Semi-Final
  • 21 February – Third Semi-Final
  • 22 February – Fourth Semi-Final
  • 23 February –  San Marino Semi-Final
  • 23 February – Second Chance
  • 24 February – Grand Final

We remind you that the Grand Final is set to take place on February 24, 2024 at Teatro Nuovo in Dogana. A total of 17 artists will participate in the final. Eight of the participants come from the “emerging” category, while the remaining nine were selected and invited by RTV as established artists. Al Bano will be the president of the jury in the final.

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Source: San Marino RTV

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San Marino: Una Voce per San Marino 2024 Kicks Off with First Semi-Final!

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Entering its final stretch, Una Voce per San Marino, the gateway for the microstate’s selection for Eurovision 2024, officially commences today with the start of its semi-final rounds. These semi-finals will determine eight out of the 16 finalists for the upcoming Saturday’s grand finale.

UVPSM 2024

A total of 129 aspiring artists will compete in the semi-finals of San Marino’s national selection for Eurovision, out of which eight will advance to the Grand Final. These eight artists will join eight others, selected and invited by RTV as established artists. The semi-finals for emerging artists will take place on February 15 and 16 and will be broadcasted from February 19 to 23.

The Grand Final of UVPSM 2024 is scheduled for February 24 at the Teatro Nuovo di Dogana, where the winner will earn the right to represent the nation at Eurovision 2024 in Malmo.

Finalists

Eight artists have directly qualified for San Marino’s national selection Grand Final. The announcement of their names is expected within the next few hours.

First Semi-Final

Thirty-one artists will compete tonight in the first semi-final of Una Voce per San Marino, vying for a spot in Saturday’s grand final. The participating artists are:

  1. Alabaster
  2. Aleph
  3. Alessandro Bruni
  4. Alis Ray
  5. Allegra
  6. AMANDA
  7. Cabiria
  8. Dafne
  9. Daudia
  10. ELA
  11. Elena
  12. Frammenti
  13. Giada Fazi
  14. Hector Mira
  15. Ilenia Suffredini
  16. Isoladellerose
  17. Isotta
  18. ITAMA
  19. Julia
  20. Kija
  21. LOCO BOOMBOX
  22. Lord Spark
  23. Mace
  24. Masala e Foresta
  25. Miki Spire
  26. RanMa
  27. Sciaco
  28. Simon Evans
  29. Tommaso Sangiorgi
  30. Venn Smyth
  31. Zaira

The Una Voce per San Marino 2024 Schedule:

  • February 19 – First Semi-Final
  • February 20 – Second Semi-Final
  • February 21 – Third Semi-Final
  • February 22 – Fourth Semi-Final
  • February 23 – San Marino Semi-Final
  • February 23 – Second Chance
  • February 24 – Grand Final

Piqued Jacks, winners of Una voce per San Marino 2023, failed to qualify for the Grand Final, finishing last in their semi-final with zero points.

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San Marino: On 19th of February the announcement of the Established Artists!

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The national broadcaster of San Marino SMRTV confirmed through its official account on X that the 8 establised artists who are going to compete directly in the final of Una Voce per San Marino 2024 are going to be announced on 19th of February.

The original plan was the eight reknown artists to be announced on different days, and the first established artist was scheduled to be revealed on February 13th, as we informed you in our previous article.

San Marino: Fans request San Marino RTV to consider Annalisa or Mahmood for Eurovision | The first established artist for UVPSM 2024 will be revealed tomorrow!

So the eight established artists who are going to participate in the final of Una Voce per San Marino 2024 are going to be announced on Monday 19 February during a press conference in Milan. 129 emerging artists are going to compete in the semi-finals of the San Marino national selection for Malmö, of which eight will advance to the Grand Final. These eight artists will meet in the final eight artists who will be selected and invited by RTV as established artists.

The semi-finals for the emerging artists are going to take place on February 15th and 16th and be broadcast from February 19th to the 23rd. We remind you that the Grand Final is scheduled to take place on February 24th at Teatro Nuovo in Dogana.

Piqued Jacks, winners of Una voce per San Marino 2023, failed to qualify to the Grand Final, finishing last in their semi-final with zero points.

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San Marino: Fans request San Marino RTV to consider Annalisa or Mahmood for Eurovision | The first established artist for UVPSM 2024 will be revealed tomorrow!

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The most successful edition of Festival de Sanremo in many years saw its conclusion past Saturday. While, Angelina Mango won the big prize and will therefore represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, she was not the only contestant to draw the audience’s attention.

Except for Angelina Mango, Eurovision fans went crazy for Annalisa’s entry as well as Mahmood’s entry, who has already participated at the Eurovision Song Contest twice. Annalisa finished third overall with her song “Sinceramente“, while Mahmood placed sixth, just outside the top five with “Tuta Gold“. Mahmood and Annalisa are both well-liked by Eurovision fans, who expected their Sanremo 2024 entries to do well on the Eurovision stage.

A request to San Marino RTV

Hence and since they are not able to represent Italy this year, Eurovision fans request San Marino RTV via social media to approach them and send them to Eurovision. In reality, aside from Mahmood, Annalisa has tried her luck in Sanremo numerous times and has failed to win the big prize, so many Eurovision fans who wish to see her in Eurovision believe that representing San Marino may be her last chance.

Indicatively, some of the tweets posted mention that:

“It would be wonderful if San Marino RTV brought @NaliOfficial [Annalisa] to #Eurovision2024”.

“Annalisa please go to the Eurovision with San Marino and win, giving everyone a humiliation!”

“So how do we send Mahmood to compete in Eurovision with San Marino?! @SanMarino_RTV don’t you want to take revenge and win this festival?!”

“I would like to remind San Marino that Annalisa and Mahmood may be available and that they are ready to give us, rightly, the xxxx”

San Marino’s response and the reveal of the established artists for UVPSM 2024

The Secretary of State for Tourism, Federico Pedini Amati spoke to San Marino RTV about the afore-mentioned issue. According to him:

Why not? Anyone can register, the contest is open to everyone, not just those who were in Sanremo. We expect some news. Then we talk about Annalisa, Mahmood or others… I have heard that someone might be really interested and tomorrow we will be able to know more. 

It’s not one of these two so we spoil this possibility but if they arrived we would be really very happy . But I’m not saying this because they are singers that we have seen at the Festival now, but because they are very famous singers who would honor and greatly raise the level of our contest too.

Hence, tomorrow the first established artist who will compete in UVPSM 2024 will be revealed.

In case San Marino takes into consideration the fans’ desire, it will not be the first time that a Sanremo participant takes the Eurovision stage representing San Marino. In 2022, Achille Lauro represented San Marino in Turin with his song “Stripper“. A couple weeks prior “Una Voce per San Marino” final, Achille participated in Festival di Sanremo, finishing fourteenth.

Una Voce per San Marino 2024

129 emerging artists will compete in the semi-finals of the Sanmarinese national selection for Malmö, out of which eight will advance to the Grand Final. Those eight artists will be joined in the final by eight artists selected and invited by RTV as established artists. The semi-finals for the emerging artists will take place on February 15 and 16 and will be broadcasted from February 19 to February 23.

The Grand Final of UVPSM 2024 will take place on February 24 at Teatro Nuovo di Dogana and the winner of the selection will therefore have the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö in terms of meeting the criteria of eligibility of RTV.

Despite this marathon session of a national selection, Piqued Jacks, UVPSM 2023 winners, did not manage to qualify to the Grand Final, finishing dead least with nul points.

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Source: RTVSanMarino

San Marino: Listen to the four songs of the finalists of Casperaki!

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As we have already informed you in a previous article, the Sanmarinese broadcaster RTV decided to join forces with the Casperaki startup in order to produce songs with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The song produced with the aforementioned process would be chosen by an artist and ultimately, compete to Una Voce per San Marino 2024, San Marino’s national selection.

Today, Casperaki unveiled the four predominant songs:

These artists will fight for a ticket for the final of Una Voce per San Marino 2024, in order to compete with other seven finalists and one of them, will fly the country’s flag on the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

We remind you that the final of Una Voce per San Marino 2024 is set to take place on February 24th at Teatro Nuovo in Dogana. A total of 16-20 artists will participate in the final and 8-12 of them will come from the category of “emerging artists”, while the remaining eight will be chosen from the broadcaster, RTV, under the category of “established artists”. Moreover, Al Bano will be the president of the jury during the final.

Piqued Jacks, last year’s Una Voce per San Marino winners, did not manage to qualify to the Grand Final of Eurovision 2023 and ended up at the very last place of the Semi Final with zero points.

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Source: Casperaki

San Marino: Una Voce Per San Marino Semifinal dates!

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Una Voce per San Marino semifinals will be broadcast between February 19 and 23 at 21:40 CET.

These are the artists competing in Una Voce per San Marino 2024:

Semi-Final One – February 19
  1. Alabaster
  2. Aleph
  3. Alessandro Bruni
  4. Alis Ray
  5. Allegra
  6. AMANDA
  7. Cabiria
  8. Dafne
  9. Daudia
  10. ELA
  11. Elena
  12. Frammenti
  13. Giada Fazi
  14. Héctor mira (Spain)
  15. ILENIA SUFFREDINI
  16. Isoladellerose
  17. ISOTTA
  18. ITAMA
  19. Julia
  20. Kija
  21. LOCO BOOMBOX  (Spain)
  22. Lord Spark
  23. Mace
  24. Masala e Foresta
  25. Miki Spire
  26. RanMa (Switzerland)
  27. Sciaco
  28. Simon Evans
  29. Tommaso Sangiorgi
  30. Venn Smyth (United Kingdom)
  31. Zaira
Semi-Final Two – February 20
  1. AaLE
  2. Acousticouple
  3. Alessio De Cicco
  4. Alessio’s mind
  5. Anthony (Malta)
  6. Babols
  7. BASTI (Germany)
  8. BOOOM! (Slovenia)
  9. Camellini
  10. Dan e i suoi Fratelli
  11. Deschema
  12. DIA
  13. Edoardo Brogi
  14. Falling Giant
  15. FEEL
  16. Francesco Balasso
  17. GUGLIELMO
  18. Haru
  19. Jucaso (Australia)
  20. La bebae
  21. Lanona
  22. Lasties
  23. Manuel Meroni
  24. MEGARA (Spain)
  25. Nemo
  26. Senzavolto
  27. Sika & Lurose
  28. Sofia Villa (Switzerland)
  29. tomash (Poland)
  30. Valerio Sgargi
  31. WILL ON EARTH
San Marinese Semi-Final – February 21
  1. Alessia Felici
  2. Francesco Mariani
  3. Giulia B.
  4. Gynevra
  5. HBH Band
  6. KIDA
  7. Why Xes
Semi-Final Three – February 22
  1. Alessandro e Guya Canino
  2. Alunno
  3. Atwood
  4. Camilla Rinaldi
  5. Camilla Ruffini
  6. Cinzia Paoletti
  7. Corde Libere
  8. Cristiano Cosa
  9. Daiana Lou
  10. Daniel Marin (Netherlands)
  11. Eki & Katy
  12. Elina
  13. Emil Lindholm (Finland)
  14. Fijord
  15. ILYTH
  16. Karma
  17. Lorenzo Postiglione
  18. Malvax
  19. MARK (Malta)
  20. Mate
  21. Mhora
  22. Michela Baselice
  23. NOOR
  24. Operapop
  25. ROS-ARIA
  26. The Atlantis
  27. The Miss
  28. This is Elle
  29. Xada
  30. XGIOVE
Semi-Final Four – February 23
  • Auroro Borealo & Martelli
  • Bluesy
  • Brenda Novella
  • CAINERO
  • Casino Moon
  • DƏVA
  • DEZ
  • Diego Federico
  • Effemme
  • Eklettika
  • Elis
  • FEDERUBIN
  • FLAT BIT
  • Gelida
  • Junaisinsane
  • Known Physics
  • Mad
  • Mirjam (Estonia)
  • Myky
  • Nadine Randle (Sweden)
  • Only Sara
  • Prima
  • RAFFI
  • Sandro Machado (Romania)
  • Spiros (Greece)
  • Thea
  • Veronica
  • Vincent
  • Vitania
  • Viva

Around 20 artists will advance to the Grand Final of Una Voce per San Marino.  Ilenia de Sena will host the five semifinals.

Source: RTV

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Eurovision 2024: The Semi-Final Allocation Draw Results!

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Malmö with a very nice event hosted a few minutes ago the draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

The analyzes of the fans and not only, have been on fire for a few minutes now. Since the theories based on the pre-history of the countries in the competition, it is a first insight into how passable the qualification to the final is or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions, about who will go through to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Malmö early…

The presenters and the handover ceremony

Presenters of the Eurovision 2024 semi-final draw were Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was also the presenter of the corresponding draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time. Both of them are part of the SVT staff, being some of the most beloved faces of the Swedish state broadcaster.

During the draw, the ceremony of handing over and accepting the emblem of the contest took place. The mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, formally handed over the “keys to the event” to the mayor of Malmö, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh.

Draw Procedure

Big 5 and Sweden

With the big winner of last year’s competition, Sweden, directly in the final, along with the Big 5 (UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain), the first part of the draw determined the semi-final that the direct finalists would vote for.

Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:

  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany

Will vote in the 2nd Semi-Final:

  • Spain
  • Italy
  • France

In the semi-final that the six aforementioned countries were drawn to broadcast and vote for, the video from their dress rehearsal will also be shown. This was done at Eurovision 2016 for the first time, for reasons of equal exposure of the countries directly in the final and the countries that qualify from the semi-finals. Essentially, viewers see each entry twice during the shows.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The allocation draw for the two semi-finals had two parts. In the first part the 31 countries participating in the semi-finals were drawn in which of the two they will compete in. Fifteen countries will compete in the first semi-final and sixteen in the second semi-final.

In the second part, each country learned whether it will appear in the first or second half of the semi-final in which it will compete. The exact order of appearance will be determined by the EBU and the show’s producers at a later date.

1st Semi-final (May 7):

1st Half

  • Ukraine
  • Cyprus
  • Poland
  • Serbia
  • Lithuania
  • Croatia
  • Ireland

2nd Half

  • Slovenia
  • Iceland
  • Finland
  • Portugal
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Moldova

2nd Semi-Final (May 9):

1st Half

  • Austria
  • Malta
  • Switzerland
  • Greece
  • Czechia
  • Albania
  • Denmark
  • Armenia

2nd Half

  • Israel
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Latvia
  • San Marino
  • Belgium

Malmö will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest from 7 to 11 May at the Malmö Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organisers, is “United by Music“, retaining the motto first chosen for last year’s contest in Liverpool.

You can see the draw again through the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-2hMEq5sk

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San Marino: The allocation of the 129 artists in the semi-finals of Una Voce per San Marino!

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Eurovision 2024: Tonight the Allocation Draw!

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At 19:00 CET and live from Malmö, Sweden, the draw for the Eurovision 2024 semi-finals will take place tonight.

During today’s event, there will also be a handover of the event’s banner from the city of Liverpool to the city of Malmö. For this reason, both the Mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, and the Mayor of the Swedish city, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, will be present at today’s draw.

The hosts

The hosts of tonight’s draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest will be Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was the presenter of the equivalent draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time.

The draw procedure

The first part of the draw will determine which semi-final will be broadcast and voted for by each of the six countries that are directly in the final on 11 May (Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom).

The second part of the draw will determine which semi-final and which half the other 31 participating countries will compete in. As in recent years, the exact order of appearance will be determined by the event producers at a later date.

The 31 countries have been divided into five pots, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by Eurovision’s official voting partner, Digame.

Drawing countries from different pots aims to reduce the likelihood of so-called neighbour voting and increases the suspense in the semi-finals.

Pots

Pot 1
  • 🇦🇱 Albania
  • 🇦🇹 Austria
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
  • 🇭🇷 Croatia
  • 🇷🇸 Serbia
  • 🇸🇮 Slovenia
Pot 2
  • 🇦🇺 Australia
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia
  • 🇫🇮 Finland
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland
  • 🇳🇴 Norway
Pot 3
  • 🇦🇲 Armenia
  • 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
  • 🇬🇪 Georgia
  • 🇮🇱 Israel
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia
  • 🇱🇹 Lithuania
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Pot 4
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus
  • 🇬🇷 Greece
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
  • 🇲🇹 Malta
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal
  • 🇸🇲 San Marino
Pot 5
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium
  • 🇨🇿 Czechia
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
  • 🇲🇩 Moldova
  • 🇵🇱 Poland

https://twitter.com/Eurovision/status/1751972070479565001

So in the evening, we all tune in for the draw of the semi-finals of our favourite contest. You can watch the draw on the official Eurovision channel on YouTube.

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