🇮🇹 Italy: it’s San Remo time again

It’s San Remo time again. The week Italian music lovers have all been waiting for is there. The upcoming 5 evenings, you can enjoy the Italian festival. Every evening, the show starts at 20.40 CET and you can watch it here. The winner gets the first choice to represent Italy in Basel.

Day What can we see Who?
Tuesday Press selects a top-5 of favourites All 29 contestants
Wednesday Radio Jury and televoters select a top-5 Half of the contestants
Thursday Radio Jury and televoters select a top-5 Half of the contestants
Friday Cover night, radio, press and televoting All 29 contestants. maybe in duet with others
Saturday FINAL All 29 contestants

 

This year, there are 29 contestants, some of them are familiar to the Eurovision fan:

  • Achille Lauro, “Incoscienti giovani”
  • Bresh, “La tana del grancho”
  • Brunori Sas, “L’albero delle noci”
  • Clara, “Febbre”
  • Coma_Cose, “Cuoricini”
  • Elodie, “Dimenticarsi alle sette”
  • Fedez, “Battito”
  • Francesca Michielin, “Fango in paradiso”
  • Gaia, “Chiamo io chiami tu”
  • Giorgia, “La cura per me”
  • Irama, “Lentamente”
  • Joan Thiele, “Eco”
  • Lucio Corsi, “Volevo essere un duro”
  • Marcella Bella, “Pelle diamante”
  • Massimo Ranieri, “Tra le mani un cuore”
  • Modà, “Non ti dimentico”
  • Noemi, “Se t’innamori muori”
  • Olly, “Balorda nostalgia”
  • Rkomi, “Il ritmo delle cose”
  • Rocco Hunt, “Mille vote ancora”
  • Rose Villain, “Fuorilegge”
  • Sarah Toscano, “Amarcord”
  • Serena Brancale, “Anema e core”
  • Shablo ft. Gué, Joshua, Termento, “La mia parola”
  • Simone Christicchi, “Quando sarai piccola”
  • The Kolors, Tu con chi fai l’amore”
  • Tony Effe, “Damme ‘na mano”
  • Willie Peyote, “Grazie ma no grazie”

 

Achille Lauro represented San Marino in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest with “Stripper”:

Francesca Michielin sang “No Degree of Separation” for Italy in 2016:

Massimo Ranieri’s Eurovision history is from longer ago: in 1973 he sang “Chi sarà con te”:

And in 1971 “L’Amore è un’attimo”:

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