Italy: Mahmood & Blanco to appear in position #9 in the Grand final

• The Eurovision 2022 representative's of the host nation, Mahmood and Blanco will perform in position #9 position of the Grand final on May 14, 2022 in Turin. 

  Italy's Eurovision 2022 hopefuls, Mahmood and Blance who will be representing the nation on home soil after winning Sanremo Festival 2022 with their song "Brividi', will appear on the stage in position #9 in the Grand final on May 14, 2022. 

  Since they represent the host nation and a Big-5 country, they will be performing directly in the Grand final.

   

  The Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, Martin Österdahl, selected radomly their position earlier today during the Head of Delegation meeting in Turin, Italy.

   

  A few words for Mahmood and Blanco

  Alessandro Mahmoud  born on  12 September 1992, known artistically as Mahmood, is an Italian singer-songwriter born in Milan to an Egyptian father and a Sardinian mother from Orosei, he was raised around Gratosoglio, a district of Milan.

  He rose to prominence after competing on the sixth season of the Italian version of The X Factor. In 2019, Mahmood won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Soldi", and went onto represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, finishing in second place. His debut album, Gioventù bruciata, was released in February 2019 and reached number one on the Italian albums chart.

  iccardo Fabbriconi  known professionally as Blanco, is an Italian singer and rapper born on  10 February 2003 in  Brescia.On 9 June 2020, he released his EP Quarantine Paranoid on SoundCloud After being signed by Universal, he debuted with the studio album Blu celeste on 10 September 2021, which peaked at number one of FIMI's album chart and was certified quadruple platinum.His most successful song to date, "Mi fai impazzire" with Sfera Ebbasta, topped the Italian singles chart for eight weeks and was certified sextuple platinum in Italy.

   

   

  Italy in Eurovision 

  Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 46 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956.  After a 14-year absence from 1998 and on, the country returned to the contest in 2011. Italy has won the contest twice  in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti and her song “Non ho l’età”.  Italy’s second victory in the contest came in 1990 with Toto Cutugno and the song “Insieme: 1992”.

  Italy’s come back to the contest has proved to be very successful, the country having finished in the top ten in eight times of the last decade (2011–2021), with Raphael Gualazzi second in 2011, Nina Zilli ninth in 2012, Marco Mengoni seventh in 2013 and Il Volo third in 2015, Francesco Ghabbani 6th in Kiev. In 2018  the winners of Sanremo 2018 ,Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, represented Italy in Eurovision in Lisbon with their song “Non mi avete fatto niente”. The Italian duo achieved an honorable 5th place in the Grand final with 308 points and a remarkable 3rd placing in the public voting.

  In 2019 , Mahmood, winner of Sanremo 2019 represented the country in Tel Aviv with his entry Soldi. The Italian representative kept the good results for Italy achieving a 2nd place in the Grand Final in Tel Aviv. In 2020 Diodato might have won the Sanremo festival with 'Fai Rumore' but unfortunately didn't have the chance to perform in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled de to the coronavirus pandemic.

  This year the rock band Maneskin won Saremo 2021 and went on representing the nation on Rotterdam where they triumphed with their song 'Zitti e Buoni' bringing the 2022 contest to Italy. 

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv

  Image: RAi

   

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Angelos D.
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