Italy: Four acts from Area Sanremo complete the Sanremo Giovani 2022 line-up
-
The four acts from the Area Sanremo competition have been determined completing the Sanremo Giovani 2022 final line-up.
After three months of work, including listenings and live auditions for a total of 1263 songs between Rai and 'Area Sanremo', the four acts that stood out according to RAI Music Commission verdict have been determined in order to fill in the last four spots in the Sanremo Giovani final.
These singers will be added to the 8 already announced after the auditions for Sanremo Giovani tha took place in Rome on November 4th. Namely here is the complete line up of the next edition of Sanremo Giovani festival set for December 16 at the Teatro del Casinò di Sanremo:
The four Area Sanremo qualifiers:
- Colla Zio – Asfalto
- Fiat 131 – Pupille
- Noor – Tua Amelie
- Romeo & Drill – Giorno di scuola
The first eight acts selected through auditions:
- gIANMARIA – La città che odi
- Giuse The Lizia – Sincera
- Maninni – Mille Porte
- Mida – Malditè
- OLLY – L’anima balla
- Sethu – Sottoterra
- Shari – Sotto Voce
- Will – Le cose più important
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: Rai.it
Image; Rai.it
AUTHORS
-
Angelos D.
Home 
About 
Contact 
Box 
Latest News 
Eurovision 2021 
Top Rated 
