Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2023 Contestants Revealed
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Twenty-two contestants of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Festival were revealed this afternoon by Amadeus, the artistic director of the show.
Out of the 25 acts that will taking part in Italy iconic music festival of Sanremo, the name of the 22 contestants were revealed today.
The 22 acts will be joined by the top three artists from Sanremo Giovani 2022 who will complete the final line-up of the Italian selection for Eurovision 2023.
The acts confirmed today as participants of the forthcoming Sanremo Festival are:
- Giorgia
- Articolo 31
- Elodie
- Colapesce e Dimartino
- Ariete
- Modà
- Mara Sattei
- Leo Gassmann
- I Cugini di Campagna
- Mr. Rain
- Marco Mengoni
- Anna Oxa
- Lazza
- Tananai
- Paola e Chiara
- LDA
- Madame
- Gianluca Grignani
- Rosa Chemical
- Coma_Cose
- Levante
- Ultimo
Among the 22 contestants we see two former Eurovision representatives. Namely Marco Mengoni who represented Italy at Eurovision 2013 singing L'essenziale and Ana Oxa Italy's Eurovision 1989 along with Fausto Leali performing 'Avrei Voluto'.
Sanremo Festival 2023
Sanremo Festival will be serving again as the country's format to determine the act and song that will be eligible to represent Italy in the 67th edition of the contest. The 73rd Sanremo Festival will be hosted by Amadeus for a fourth year in a row. The iconic music competition will be taking place next year from February 7 to February 11.
Format and results
A total of 25 acts will be taking part in the festival among which the three acts to be selected via the Sanremo Giovani festival. However the three acts from Sanremo Giovani will copete with a different song than the one from Sanemo Giovani competition.Sanremo will unfild over five evenings. The fourth evening will be dedicated to the Covers: on this occasion the artists will be able to draw from a repertoire ranging from 1 January 1960 to 31 December 1999, reinterpreting a song together with a guest identified by them and approved by the Artistic Direction. The most voted interpretation will receive a special award.
The competing songs of the 25 competing acts will be judged by the audience at home through televoting (from landline and mobile telephones), by the Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web (150 representatives of the media accredited to the Festival) and by the Opinion Jury. (300 components).
In the first and second evening the jury of the press room, TV, radio and web will vote and will carry out its vote by dividing itself into three independent components: a third for TV and print media, a third for the radio and a third for the web jury. .
In the third evening, 50% of the vote will be entrusted to televoting and the other 50% to the opinion poll jury.
Finally, during the fourth and fifth evening, the voting will be divided into three parts: 34% entrusted to televoting, 33% to the press room -tv-radio, web jury and 33% to the opinion poll jury.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.
Last year 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 & Blanco representing the host nation with their Sanremo 2022 winning song 'Brividi', finishing in the honorable 6th place.
News Source:Rai/Sanremo Festival
Image: Sanremo Festival FB
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