Tonight: Festival di Sanremo 2024 kicks off with Night One in Italy

• The iconic Italian music competition of Festival di Sanremo kicks off this evening with the first night of the show that will determine the Italian entry for Eurovision 2024.

  The 74th edition of Festival di Sanremo will start unfolding tonight at Teatro Ariston in Sanremo and will keep us company up to Saturday with the Grand final show. Hosting the contest this evening is Amadeus joined by last year's winner Marco Mengoni, who represented Italy at Eurovision 2013 and 2023.

  A total of 30 competing artists will deliver on stage their songs for the first time. All the songs will be voted on by a jury made up by professional journalists from television and web outlets.

  • Alessandra Amoroso – Fino a qui
  • Alfa – Vai!
  • Angelina Mango – La noia
  • Annalisa – Sinceramente
  • BigMama – La rabbia non ti basta
  • Bnkr44 – Governo punk
  • Clara – Diamanti grezzi
  • Dargen D’Amico – Onda alta
  • Diodato – Ti muovi
  • Emma – Apnea
  • Fiorella Mannoia – Mariposa
  • Fred De Palma – Il cielo non ci vuole
  • Gazzelle – Tutto qui
  • Geolier – I p’ me, tu p’ te
  • Il Tre – Fragili
  • Il Volo – Capolavoro
  • Irama – Tu no
  • La Sad – Autodistruttivo
  • Loredana Bertè – Pazza
  • Mahmood – Tuta gold
  • Maninni – Spettacolare
  • Mr. Rain – Due altalene
  • Negramaro – Ricominciamo tutto
  • Renga e Nek – Pazzo di te
  • Ricchi e poveri – Ma non tutta la vita
  • Rose Villain – Click boom!
  • Sangiovanni – Finiscimi
  • Santi Francesi – L’amore in bocca
  • The Kolors – Un ragazzo una ragazza

  Among the contestant a few familiar names to the Eurovision audience as the participated in the past in the contest. Namely,  Ricchi e Poveri (1978), Emma (2014), Il Volo (2015), Mahmood (2019, 2022) and Diodato (2020) are the past ESC participants that are making a comeback and an addtional attempt to reach the Eurovision stage again. Notably, Mahmood has participated twice in Sanremo and won both times the competition securing his Eurovision participation in 2019 ( Soldi) and in 2022 ( Turin ) alongside Blanco (Brividi).

   

  You can watch the show at 20:40 CET on Rai Play here.

   

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.