Italy: The finalists for Area Sanremo 2022 revealed

• The 12 finalists of Area Sanremo that will compete for the last four spots in Sanremo Giovani have been revealed. 

  With the Sanremo Giovani set for December 16, 2022, the rest remaiming four spots in the competition are filled in by the four top acts from Area Sanremo. 

  The 12 candidates that will be performing before the RAI's Music Commission tomorrow have been released. Namely the acts that will compete for the four seats that lead to Sanremo Giovani are: 

  • Colla Zio
  • Dynamite 36
  • Fellow
  • Fiat131
  • I Tristi
  • Jaydar
  • Jore
  • Juma
  • Mayu
  • Michele & Marcos
  • Monnalelisa
  • Motus
  • Noor
  • Perfrau
  • Romeo & Drill
  • Sameblud
  • Sarah Toscano
  • Stefania Tasca
  • Valentina Moro
  • Zo Vivaldi

   

  So far 8 acts have been determined for the Sanremo Giovani 2022 festival which is set for December 16 at  Teatro del Casinò di Sanremo. The first three acts from Sanremo Giovani will be invited to take part in Festival di Sanremo in February, with a new song, giving their shot in representing Italy at Eurovision 2023. 

   

  Italy in Eurovision 

  Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 47 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.

  In 2021  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. 

  This year, the duo Mahmood and Blanco represented Italy in Turin on home soil with their song 'Brividi' which achieved a honorable 6th placing for the host country. 

  News Source: area sanremo.it

  Image: Area Sanremo

   

   

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Angelos D.
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