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San Marino: GRISANA and Valleria join the San Marino Song Contest!

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Two names from previous Eurovision National finals participants have been added to the San Marino Song Contest’s list of contestants.

The first one is GRISANA who wanted to represent Ukraine in Vidbir 2025. Unfortunately, her Ukraine journey ended when she did not make it in the Wildcard vote but her hopes to go to Eurovision continue. GRISANA is now on the casting list for the San Marino national final:

GRISANA participated in Vidbir 2025 with the song Kohoney.

Another act that follows GRISANA’s steps is Valleria. Valleria was participating in the Moldovan national selection but her candidacy ended abruptly when she was disqualified from Etapa Națională 2025 for being too late. She was competing with the song “A picture of myself”. Now she will try her luck with San Marino and her name has been added to the casting list:

The San Marino Song Contest casting call is currently taking place. For 2025 San Marino has renewed their national final with a new name and format. The final of the San Marino Song Contest will be held on March 8, 2025

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San Marino: Spanish Representative Serafín Zubiri Competes for a Return to the Contest

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San Marino’s television network, SMRTV, continues the casting and selection phase for Una Voce Per San Marino 2025, which will take place on March 8th and will select the country’s representative and song for Eurovision 2025 in Basel.

As revealed on the contest’s website, the auditions will include Serafín Zubiri, who represented Spain in Eurovision in 1992 and 2000. The 60-year-old singer represented Spain about 33 years ago, placing 14th with 37 points with the song “Todo Esto Es La Música“. Eight years later, he represented Spain again in Eurovision 2000 with the song “Colgado de un sueño” placing 18th with 18 points. The audition will take place online on January 23rd at 11:50 CET.

Una Voce Per San Marino 2025

The San Marino Song Contest 2025 will be held in three phases. In the Auditions stage, over 200 applicants will be assessed, with 80 artists progressing to the Semi-Finals. The semi-finals will consist of six shows – four regular semi-finals, a special semi-final for local artists, and a second chance semi-final, from which 11 finalists will emerge.

The final of the San Marino Song Contest, scheduled for March 8th, will include changes compared to the current format. The artistic director, Massimo Bonelli, has also hinted at significant transparency in the voting procedures.

If Serafín wins the San Marino selection, he will be the second Spanish artist to represent the country in Eurovision, following the Spanish band Megara, which represented San Marino in 2024 but did not qualify for the final.

 

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Source: Una voce per San Marino

San Marino 2025: Atle Pettersen will compete in Una Voce per San Marino!

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Norwegian singer Atle Pettersen wants to represent San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.

The former Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix participant has registered for Una Voce Per San Marino.

According to the San Marinese national final website, Atle Pettersen will participate in the casting list, one of the first stages of Una Voce per San Marino.  The casting phase of the selection takes place in San Marino, although participants can perform remotely for those participants living in a country not bordering Italy.

Atle Pettersen is scheduled to have his casting for Una Voce Per San Marino on January 10, 2025, according to the casting list:

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Atle Pettersen participated in MGP twice.  In his first participation, in 2021 he performed “World On Fire”.  He classified to the Grand Final of the Norwegian national final but was eliminated in the first round.  Two years later he competed again with “Masterpiece”.  In his second participation, he finished in third place

Source: Una Voce per San Marino

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San Marino: Justine Mayer joins the line-up of UVPSM 2025!

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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.

Six rounds of castings will be held starting from September until late January 2025, as following:
  1. 26 – 29 September 2024
  2. 17 – 19 October 2024
  3. 14 – 16 November 2024
  4. 12 – 14 December 2024
  5. 9 – 11 January 2025
  6. 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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Source: San Marino RTV

Besa to compete in Una Voce per San Marino 2025!

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As the submission window for San Marino’s national selection for Eurovision 2025 remains open, the first stage of evaluating entries has already begun. However, attention is now turning to the upcoming third round of the Academy and Casting phase, which is scheduled to take place from November 14 to 16.

One of the most anticipated auditions in this round is set to feature Besa Kokëdhima, a former Eurovision contestant. The Albanian singer is set to compete for a chance to represent San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.

Besa’s Bid for San Marino

Besa’s participation in the Sanmarinese national selection, Una Voce per San Marino (UVPSM), has been confirmed by her management team, putting an end to any speculation. Besa, who previously represented Albania at Eurovision, will now aim for a spot in the upcoming contest with San Marino’s flag.

It is not the first time that an ex-Eurovision contestant has participated in San Marino’s open selection. In 2023, Albanian Eurovision 2022 representative Ronela Hajati joined UVPSM and reached the final, drawing attention to the competition’s growing appeal among established artists.

Besa’s International Eurovision Journey

For Besa, this marks another attempt to represent a country other than her native Albania. Back in 2009, she participated in Romania’s national selection for Eurovision. Now, with her eyes set on the Sanmarinese stage, Besa hopes to make her mark once again on the Eurovision stage, but this time with a different flag.

As the UVPSM 2025 selection progresses, Besa’s participation adds another layer of intrigue to this competition already filled with excitement regardless the small size of the country.

Besa won the public’s vote in Festivali I Këngës 2023 with her song Zemrën n’dorë“. Besa released a revamped version in English titled “Titan” for Eurovision, where she did not make it to the Grand Final, finishing fourteenth in the second semi-final.

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San Marino: The Grand Final of Una Voce per San Marino will take place on February 23 | The first round of castings began!

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Una Voce per San Marino, the Sanmarinese selection for Eurovision 2025, officially commences. The first round of the entries and artists’ evaluation has started, as the registration window has been open since August and more than two hundred participants from twenty countries have already submitted their entries. Meanwhile, RTV San Marino also disclosed the date of the UVPSM 2025 Grand Final.

The first round of the “Academy and Casting” phase

The first casting of the season took place on September 26 and 27, at the San Marino Outlet Experience, among the artists who were willing to represent San Marino in Basel. In the meantime, participants who do not reside in Italy could also audition online (via a live performance sent on video), considering the competition is open to all countries.

Una Voce per San Marino will be held on February

Additionally, RTV San Marino disclosed the forthcoming song festival’s dates. The Grand Final is scheduled for February 23, 2025, with the semi-finals taking place from February 17 to February 21, 2025. There’s a chance that only the Final will be broadcasted live, with the semi-finals possibly being filmed earlier and aired at the previously mentioned dates if last year’s formula is replicated.

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.

Six rounds of castings will be held starting from September until late January 2025, as following:
  1. 26 – 29 September 2024
  2. 17 – 19 October 2024
  3. 14 – 16 November 2024
  4. 12 – 14 December 2024
  5. 9 – 11 January 2025
  6. 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 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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Source: sanmarinoRTV

San Marino: Over 200 Participants from 20 Countries for ‘Una Voce per San Marino’

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Registrations are now open for the 4th edition of the “Una Voce per San Marino” festival. The festival-contest, which in the last two years has been won by emerging bands, will give the winner the chance to represent the Republic of San Marino at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Switzerland. The festival will feature both Emerging and Big artists in a single category, with no restrictions on citizenship or language choice for the song performed in the competition. Anyone who turns 16 by 15/02/2025 can register. Registrations will close on 31/12/2024.

Contestants will go through the Academy and Casting phases held at the Prestige Lounge of the San Marino Outlet Experience: the first date is set for September 26 and 27, 2024, followed by October 17 and 18; November 14, 15, and 16; December 12, 13, and 14, 2024; January 9, 10, and 11, 2025, and January 23, 24, and 25, 2025.

So far, over 200 applications have been received from artists from Andorra, Belgium, Belarus, Denmark, Ecuador, eSwatini, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, the United States, Sweden, and Switzerland.

In February 2025, four semifinals are scheduled, one dedicated to Sammarinese artists and a repechage round. The grand final of “Una Voce per San Marino” will take place at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana, San Marino, where artists will compete against each other.

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Source: SMRTV

San Marino: The dates for the “Academy & Casting” stage!

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Una Voce per San Marino will return as the country’s selection format for the fourth consecutive year. Despite rumors claiming that San Marino’s participation in Eurovision 2025 is uncertain, the preparations have already started for RTV San Marino.

Meanwhile, casting dates for UVPSM 2025 have also been revealed. The Academy and Casting stage of the competition will be held starting from September until late January 2025:

  1. 26 – 29 September
  2. 17 – 19 October
  3. 14 – 16 November
  4. 12 – 14 December
  5. 9 – 11 January
  6. 23 – 25 January

UVPSM 2025 – the process

This 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.

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 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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Source: sanmarinoRTV

San Marino: Eurovision 2025 participation confirmed!

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San Marino is going to take part at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest which is about to be held in Switzerland next year.

Through a story on the official Instagram account of the Una Voce per San Marino, the process through which the representative is emerged, the presence of the enclave-microstate of the Italian peninsula was confirmed, against the will of one of the members of the government of the Most Serene Republic who wanted the absence of the country due to the third consecutive elimination for the grand final.

San Marino: Minister of the Government talks about a potential withdrawal from Eurovision!

The countries that have confirmed their participation as of now, are:

  1. Switzerland
  2. Spain
  3. Malta
  4. Denmark
  5. Belgium
  6. Luxembourg
  7. Austria
  8. Portugal
  9. Croatia
  10. Serbia
  11. Germany
  12. Israel
  13. Finland
  14. Albania
  15. Lithuania
  16. Sweden
  17. Norway
  18. Italy
  19. Cyprus
  20. Latvia
  21. United Kingdom
  22. San Marino

This year San Marino was represented in Malmö by the Spanish group Megara and the song “11:11” but failed to qualify to the grand final as they ended up in 14th place with 16 points.

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