Best of the Bunch: Junior vs Senior – Italy

Our Best of the Bunch series continues, but this time, we’re crossing over between the two main formats of Eurovision, the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The concept is simple, we take the Eurovision and Junior Eurovision entries of a certain year and put them up against each other in a…

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Best of the Bunch: The Trials – Italy

Through our Best of the Bunch series, we gave a recap on the Eurovision entries from 2006 to 2015 and gave you the opportunity to choose your Best of the Bunch. As you may remember, the current Best of the Bunch winners were put into our ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ but it’s time to see which of…

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Top 5 Soloists (2012 – 2016)

As part of the Eurovision rules, each nation can have a maximum of 6 people on stage. Some acts use that to their advantage, featuring backing singers, dancers, or having a complete band on stage. Other times, nations may choose to present their acts as soloists on stage to focus on the talent within that…

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2016 Reviews – Italy – Francesca Michielin – No Degree of Separation

After the winner of Sanremo Song Festival declined participation in Eurovision, Francesca Michielin grabbed the opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Her song, originally titled Nessun Grado di Separazione has since had a bilingual makeover to include a chorus of English, and its English title to be used – No Degree of Separation.…

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Francesca Michielin to go Bilingual for Eurovision

Since the return to Eurovision in 2011, the Sanremo Song Festival has provided the artists to represent Italy at Eurovision. The general rule was that the winner of the festival had first right to decline the offer, or alternatively, it was up to RAI to decide on the act. This year, we saw this come…

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