San Marino: Senhit will be back for Eurovision 2021

San Marino: Senhit will be back for Eurovision 2021
Sunday, 17 May 2020

  • The list of confirmed Eurovision 2021 acts is getting longer, with San Marino adding today its hopeful for next year's contest. Senhit will return to the competition in 2021 set to take place in Rotterdam.

    SMRTV, joined this evening the list of countries that will be participating in the next edition of the Euroivision song contest with its ESC 2020 act.  The Sammarinese broadcaster confirmed that Senhit will be returning to Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam.

    Senhit was internally selected to represent San Marino at Eurovision 2020 with entry ‘Freaky’. Now Senhit will have the chance to complete her Eurovision journey next year in Rotterdam .

     

    About Senhit

    Senhit Zadik Zadik (born 1 October 1979), known professionally as simply Senhit, is an Italian singer. Senhit was born and raised in Bologna, Italy by her Eritrean parents. She started her career abroad. She performed in musicals like Fame, The Lion King and Hair in Switzerland and Germany.

    In 2002, she returned to Italy and claimed to fame in the Italian music business releasing her debut album in 2006 and her second album Un tesoro é necessariamente nascosto in 2007 with these singles: “La mia cittá é cambiata”, “La cosa giusta”, “La faccia che ho”. In 2009, Senhit released her third album, the English language So high. Three singles were released off of the record: “Work Hard”, “No More” and “Party on the Dance Floor”.

    Senhit is of course no stranger to the Eurovision family as she represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 that was held in Düsseldorf with the song “Stand By”. Following the Eurovision participation, on 22 June 2011 a new pop single was released: “Through the Rain”. In April 2012 Senhit releases “AOK” single in the United States. During 2014 she’s a permanent guest in the Canale 5 Sunday show “Domenica Live”, choosing to be called Senhit to mark her new career chapter.

     

    San Marino in Eurovision 

    San Marino made its first appearcance in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 with Miodio and  has scored no victory yet. The landlocked country has participated in Europe’s  televised music event 9 times and has only made it to the Grand Final twice, in 2014 when Valentina Monetta placed 24th in the Grand Final and this year with Serhat who achieve the best placing finishing 19th in the Grand final

    Valentina has flow the Sammarinese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest four times ( 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017). Last year Serhat flew the flag for San Marino in Tel Aviv with his entry Say Na na na,  achieving to qualify to the Grand final where he finished 19th.