Eurovision news is coming in hot, and the next nation to announce their national final line-up is Italy! The Festival di Sanremo is a national tradition, and has more recently been used to determine who will represent Italy at Eurovision. This year there has been a format change to Sanremo with the competition comprising of…
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Eurovision fans were first introduced to Marco Mengoni when he took part in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with his song L’Essenziale, but beyond Eurovision, Marco is undoubtedly one of Italy’s most popular artists. Described as the ‘news of the day’, an announcement has come out today that has sent Marco Mengoni fans into a…
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The Sanremo Song Festival is a cornerstone of Italian culture, annually featuring the best of Italian music. It was the contest that inspired Eurovision, and just like Eurovision it has seen various format changes over the years. Italian broadcaster RAI have announced that there will be changes to the 2019 contest. Recently we have seen…
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Since their return in 2011, Italy has been a serious contender with various Top 10 results since their return. The nation is going from strength to strength, and we can credit their success to their constant authenticity. Italy often uses their own song festival, Sanremo, as the format for selecting their act. Regardless of whether…
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Sanremo Song Festival remains one of the most prestigious song festivals not only in Italy, but across Europe with 68 years of history. This year, the competition continued on with new artists in both the Newcomers and Big Artists all of which performed their competing entries which faced both the jury votes as well as…
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It’s the contest that inspired Eurovision, and a contest that remains popular not only in Italy, but now across the world due to the return of Italy to Eurovision back in 2011. The contest often acts as the selection process in which the winner often goes on to represent Italy at Eurovision, although this hasn’t…
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There’s some serious talent coming from Italy, and we’re not just talking about the upcoming favourite to win Eurovision 2017, Francesco Gabbani. Although we can’t dismiss Francesco’s work, including his recently released album which we will be discussing, we also have to talk about some of the new releases from some of our favourite Italian…
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Italy’s long running festival Sanremo came to a conclusion last night, with the winner of the competition offered the opportunity to represent the nation at Eurovision in May. Over the past 5 nights, a total of 22 Big Artists and 8 Newcomers all performed on the Sanremo stage, however there could only be one winner.…
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Over the last four nights, Italy has been showing off some of their best talent through the Sanremo Song Festival. For Eurovision fans, this is also a Song Festival to take note of, as the winner of the Big Artists section is likely to go on and represent Italy at Eurovision. In total, 22 Big…
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Last night, the first night of the 5 night Song Festival took place at the iconic Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Italy. A total of 11 acts took to the stage last night from the Big Artists section of the show, and the other 11 will perform tonight. Here was the running order for the show…
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