🇸🇲 San Marino selects an entry tonight

San Marino selects an entry tonight. A total of 20 artists from several countries will compete in the San Marino Song Contest. The show starts at 20:30 CET and you can watch it here. It will be a jury only that selects the winner.

These are the 20 participants:

       

1

The Rumpled You Get Me So High

2

Besa Tiki

3

Angy Sciacqua I

4

Haymara Tómame las manos

5

CRL Juliet

6

Elasi Lorella

7

Silvia Salemi Coralli

8

Giacomo Voli Ave Maria

9

Teslenko Storm

10

Vincenzo Capua Sei sempre tu

11

Marco Carta Solo fantasia

12

Bianca Atzei Testacoda

13

King Foo The Edge of the World

14

Questo e Quello Bella Bella

15

Pierdavide Carone Mi vuoi sposare?

16

Gabry Ponte Tutta L’Italia

17

Luisa Corno Il giorno giusto

18

Boosta BTW

19

Paco Until the end

20

Taoma NPC

Angy Sciacqua was 5th in last years national final in Luxembourg.
Besa took part in the 2009 Romanian semifinal, and in Albanian Festivali i Këngës in 2009 (4th), 2011 (8th), 2016 (final) and 2024 (winner). She represented Albania in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Titan”.
Bianca Atzei competed in Festival di Sanremo in 2015 (14th) and 2017 (9th).
David Lindgren (CRL) participated in Melodifestivalen in 2012 (3rd), 2013 (8th) and 2016 (11th).
Boris René (CRL) took part in Melodifestivalen in 2016 (10th) and 2017 (8th).
Greg Curtis (CRL) was a backing vocal for Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden 2018) and Luca Hänni (Switzerland 2019).
King Foo took part in EMA (Slovenia) in 2017 (7th) and in 2018 (semifinal).

Besa sings “Titan” for Albania.

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