Italy: RAI confirms Junior Eurovision 2022 participation
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RAI has confirmed that Italy will be taking part in Junior Eurovision 2022 set for December 11 in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Italian national broadcaste, RAI 1, has confirmed that they will be participating in the 20th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest the coming December in Armenia.
RAI 1 will be picking up from RAI Gulp, the repsonsibility to organise and select this year's Junior Eurovision representative and according to Director of Rai Ragazzi Luca Milano:
We are satisfied with the work done these years by Rai Ragazzi, Rai Yoyo and Rai Play Kids, but it is time to look out and also the general public at this event.
However, it remains unknown the formula the broadcaster will use to determine the Italian act. Italy has been opting for internal selctions over the recent years.
Italy in Junior Eurovision
The country mades its debut in the competition in the 2014 edition in Malta. The internally selected Vincenzo Cantiello represented the country with the song "Tu primo grande amore" achieving to bring the trophy on home soil on the nation's first apprearance. That made Italy the second country that won with the debut entry after Croatia's victory in the first edition.
Italy hasn't missed an edition since then apart from the 2020 one due to the covid-10 pandemic. It's next best placing came in 2016 with Flamma Boccia who came 3rd performing "Cara Mamma' (Dear Mom) . In 2018 the flag flew the duo Melissa and Marco with their entry “What is Love“, which finished in 7th place with 151 points, while in 2019 Marta Viola with "La Voce Della Terra" at Gliwice-Silesia, Poland gave another 7th placing for the country.
In 2021 in Paris Elisabetta Lizza defended the Italian colors with the song “Specchio (Mirror On The Wall)” finishing 10th with an overall score of 107 points.
News source: Eurovoix/ Cinguetterai
Image: EBU/ Andres Putting
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Angelos D.
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