Italy: Area Sanremo 2022 process kicks off

Italy: Area Sanremo 2022 process kicks off
Friday, 30 September 2022

  • Area Sanremo 2022, the competition that determines four spots in the Sanremo Giovani Festival has kicked off its quest.

    Submissions for the Area Sanremo 2022 competition have opened for all emerging acts that are interested to claim one of the four spots that lead to Giovani Sanremo festival and through that off to the Festival di Sanremo which determines the Italian Eurovision representative. 

    Applicants should be aged on January 1, 2023 between 16 and 30 years old and should send to area-sanremo.it two songs, one for Area Sanremo and one as the potential entry for Festival di Sanremo. Songs must be in Italian and not longer than 3 minutes and 30 second. To register in the competition , you must complete the application atthis link and send the requested material no later than 00.00 on 30 October 2022 . 

    Once the submission period concludes an evaluation committee, selected by Sanremo's Artistic Director, Amadeus, to shorlist a number of acts to audition before RAI's Music Commission in the run of one of the four spots for Sanremo Giovani. 

     

     

    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

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