Italy: Co-hosts for Sanremo Festival 2024 revealed

Thursday, 30 November 2023

The names of the personalities to co-host Sanremo 2024 have been released.

The creative director of the iconic Italian song festival , Amadeus, revealed on on TG1 that Giorgia, Teresa Mannino, Lorella Cuccarini and Fiorello will be accompanying him on stage presenting the show throughtout the week.

These three personas will be joining last year's winner Marco Mengoni who will be co-hosting during the first night of Sanremo 2024.

Precisely here is how the co-hosts will be appearing on stage during the long week of the competition:
- Tuesday 6 February – Marco Mengoni
- Wednesday 7 February – Giorgia ( Sanremo 2023 contestant with her song “Parole dette male”)
- Thursday 8 February – Teresa Mannino (actor, comedian and presenter worldwide known for her role in “Inspector Montalbano)
- Friday 9 February – Lorella Cuccarini (hosted Sanremo in 1993 with Baudy, and competed in the festival in 1995)
- Saturday 10 February – Fiorello (co-hosted Sanremo in 2020 and 2021 along with Amadeus, the host of “Viva Rai 2)
Amadeus who has been the show's creative director since 2020 has already confirmed that this will be his last edition on board as he's stepping down after Sanremo 2024.

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.

News Source: Eurovoix / Eurofestival News

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