Italy: 49 acts to take part in the Sanremo Giovani 2023 auditions

Italy: 49 acts to take part in the Sanremo Giovani 2023 auditions
Saturday, 28 October 2023

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI, has revealed that 49 artists will be taking part in the live audition of Sanremo 2023 festival. 

     After receiving a total of 564 entries , from which 44 were bands with the rest 520 solo male and female artists, the selection progresses to the next stage where before a committee made up by Federica Lentini, Massimo Martelli, Leonardo De Amicis, and Amadeus the shortlisted candidates will perform in live auditions.

    The committee has already picked out 49 artist to progress in the auditions stage (6 bands + 29 male solo singers + 14 female solo singers) from which the the final 8 will be determined to compete in the final night of Sanremo Giovani 2023 along with 4 four acts selected via Area San Remo by the end of November. 

    The 12 acts will compete on the final show of Sanremo Giovani on December 19, with the top three acts earning their way to the 74th edition of Sarenmo Festival. The results will be determined by the Artistic Director and Musical Commissions who each have a 50% contribution to the outcome. 

    Namely here are the 49 acts that made it to the live auditions phase: 

    1.  Alex Wyse – “La mia canzone per te”
    2.  Assurditè – “Bella storia”
    3.  ASTERIA – “Venere”
    4.  Beatrice Quinta – “Alleluia”
    5.  bnkr44 (band) – “Effetti speciali”
    6.  CALEYDO – “PIATTAFORMA PERSONALE”
    7.  Cara – “Giulia”
    8.  CENERI – “ULTIMA FESTA”
    9.  Chakra – “Luna di Miele”
    10.  chiamamifaro – “La Poesia”
    11.  ChiEdo – “Autunno retrò”
    12.  CLARA – “Boulevard”
    13.  COLLETTIVO (band) – “ALTALENA”
    14.  Commodo – “Pioggia”
    15.  Diego Lazzari – “Lontana Dai Guai”
    16.  Erresolo – “Pappagalli a Berlino”
    17.  Ethan – “Vuoto”
    18.  Extrasistoli – “Non vedo l’ora di dimenticarti per sempre”
    19.  Germo67 – “Fastidio”
    20.  Grenbaud – “Mama”
    21.  Greta (band) – “Greta”
    22.  Guall – “Pozzanghere di sale”
    23.  Ilan – “Stelle cadenti”
    24.  Jacopo Sol – “COSE CHE NON SAI”
    25.  Jeson – “Perdonare te”
    26.  Kaze – “Figli delle città”
    27.  La Base – “Nessuno ci crede”
    28.  Leon Faun – “Anima”
    29.  Lor3n – “Fiore D’inverno”
    30.  Mameli – “mai love”
    31.  Maracuja (band) – “Showman”
    32. MARGHERITA PRINCIPI – “ho la testa che mi fa”
    33.  Marmo – “Terra mia”
    34.  MonnaElisa – “Amore consumato”
    35. Mose – “Ikigai (Sara)”
    36.  Nahaze – “MAI CAPITA”
    37.  Nashley – “Quello che conta davvero”
    38.  NDG – “Piove”
    39.  Pheelow – “Se mi ucciderà”
    40.  Rakele – “KILL BILL”
    41.  Rizzo – “Bonjour Adieu”
    42.  Santi Francesi (band) – “Occhi tristi”
    43.  Senza Cuore – “Sole in inverno”
    44.  Simone Panetti – “Polverina”
    45.  Speakeasy (band) – “George Best”
    46.  Tancredi – “Perle”
    47.  Thoé – “M’ama”
    48.  Tuma – “Alieni”
    49.  Vale LP – “Stronza”

     

    Italy in Eurovision 

    Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 48 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  Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, achieved an honorable 5th place while in 2019 Mahmood with 'Soldi' came second 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. On home grounds the duo Mahmood & Blanco represented the nation with their Sanremo 2022 winning song 'Brividi', finishing in the honorable 6th place. 

    This year Marco Mengoni made a comeback on the Eurovision stage (after 2013) with the song 'Due Vite' which came 4th in the Grand final scoring 350 points. 

     

    Source: RAI | Image source: RAI

     

     

     

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