San Marino: Justine Mayer joins the line-up of UVPSM 2025!
SMRTV continues to surprise and excite fans with its innovations. While the registrations for the 2025 edition of Una Voce per San Marino are still open and the casting process is ongoing, Justine Mayer, the winner of Tour Music Fest 2024, has secured her spot in the Sanmarinese pre-selection for Eurovision 2025.
Justine Mayer joins UVPSM 2025 Line-up
As announced by SMRTV a few days ago, the winner of the Tour Music Fest 2024, which took place in San Marino, would be granted a direct entry into the Semi-Finals of UVPSM 2025. Justine Mayer from France, triumphed in the Tour Music Fest 2024 final, earning a direct ticket to the First Semi-Final of UVPSM 2025, aiming to represent San Marino in Basel.
The Tour Music Fest is Europe’s largest live music competition dedicated to discovering and promoting new, emerging talent across the continent. Singers, songwriters, rappers, musicians, and DJs from all over Europe are eligible to participate, regardless of their language. The competition, which includes auditions throughout Europe, selects the best artists to compete in the final, which this year took place in San Marino.
UVPSM 2025 – the process
The fourth edition of UVPSM will consist of three phases:
Registrations
The submission window for artists willing to represent San Marino in Eurovision 2025 is open and will remain open until December 31, 2024. There are no other specific rules regarding the submitted acts. There is a freedom of language, music style and territoriality.
Academy & Castings’ stage
The Academy is a gathering for education focused on entertainment-related topics, with the goal of studying and learning about the world of music.
The casting process entails the live, private audition to select the Semi-finalists, followed by the jury’s evaluation. The jury will choose roughly eighty contestants or more to advance to the next round.
- 26 – 29 September 2024
- 17 – 19 October 2024
- 14 – 16 November 2024
- 12 – 14 December 2024
- 9 – 11 January 2025
- 23 – 25 January 2025
This stage will take place in San Marino Outlet Experience.
Semi-Finals and Final stage
The eighty selected participants will advance to the final stage:
- Four semi-finals will take place in order for the committee to select the artists who will directly advance to the Grand Final as well as those who will advance to the second-chance semi-final(fifth semi-final). The artists participating in the second-chance semi-final will also fight for a spot at the selection’s Grand Final. From each semi-final, two artists will advance directly to the Final of UVPSM 2025, while two more acts will be determined via the repechage semi-final.
- Moreover, a sixth semi-final will be held between Sanmarinese contestants. Out of this semi-final, only one contestant will be directly advanced to the Grand Final.
In total, eleven acts will participate in the Grand Final of UVPSM 2025, which will take place on February 22 and will claim the Sanmarinese representation in Switzerland.
The winner of UVPSM 2025 will be decided by a five-member jury. The winner of the selection will therefore have the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in terms of meeting the criteria of eligibility of RTV.
A notable difference compared to last year’s edition of UVPSM is that there will be no “established artists” category; thus, no invitations will be sent by RTV San Marino.
Despite this marathon session of a national selection, Megara, UVPSM 2024 winners, did not manage to qualify to the Grand Final, finishing fourteenth in the second semi-final.
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