Search
Close this search box.

🇮🇹 This is the week of Sanremo

Festival di Sanremo 2024 is going to start tonight. Tonight, all the artists will sing their song for the first time. The upcoming five days, you can watch Sanremo every night. After the final, the winner will let us know whether he or she will represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö this year.

Tonight’s show starts at 20.40 CET. You can watch the show live here. The participants are:

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

 

Several participants took part in previous festivals in years that the ESC participant was chosen from Sanremo. No less than 4 participants represented Italy in ESC: Emma (2014), Il Volo (2015), Mahmood (2019 and 2022) and even Ricchi e Poveri (1978!). Diodato was supposed to do the job in 2020, but in that year the festival had to be cancelled due to COVID19.

Ricchi e Poveri sing “Questo amore”, 1978

Emma sings “La mia città”, 2014

Il volo sing “Grande amore”, 2015

Mahmood sings “Soldi”, 2019


Diodato sings “Fai rumore”, Eurovision Shine a Light 2020

Mahmood (in duet with Blanco) sings “Brividi, 2022

Share

Related news

General

They will rock you!

  It is often said: Rock music… that doesn’t belong  in the Eurovision Song Contest. But why not? And who decides? That is the counter-question.  The answer is simple; If we look at the rules of the EBU, there are rules about length, publication, originality, but not about the genre.So…. Rock music at Eurovision: Sure thing! The early years For the very first Rock entry, we’re going all the way back to…..1956! An entry in the very first year of Eurovision, which would not be out of place for Elvis (regardless of the language). The Austrian Freddy Quin was one of the German representatives; his song was called was “So geht das jede Nacht”. As with every entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1956, apart from the winner, the placement is unknown. Varying degrees of success and the lowest ranking Rock songs were submitted with varying degrees of success in the years that followed. In 1982 a Rock-bottom was reached: Finland’s Kojo with “Nuku pommiin”, took the very last place with 0 points. Was it really that bad, or was Europe not ready for it? Judge for yourself: Rock Win It took quite some time before Rock really made a difference at Eurovision, but in 2006 the time had come: Lordi for Finland with “Hardrock Hallelujah” won the contest with 292 points. Rock is part of it After that, Rock as a type of music at Eurovision was taken a lot more seriously. Bigger successes were achieved, and in 2018 even a Hungarian hard metal band managed to reach the finals. That AWS with “Viszlát Nyár” finished last in the grand final, doesn’t matter… They made it to the finals. The icing on the Rockcake was, of course, MÃ¥neskin in 2021. France was the big favorite (Barbara Pravi), but with 524 points, Italy left France behind.  The conclusion may be that Rock definitely belongs at Eurovision, although opinions will always be divided on this. 2024 was a year without Rock. We are curious to see what 2025 will bring.           Share

Share
Read More »
General
Anja Kroeze

They will rock you!

  It is often said: Rock music… that doesn’t belong  in the Eurovision Song Contest. But why not? And who decides? That is the counter-question.  The answer is simple; If we look at the rules of the EBU, there are rules about length, publication, originality, but not about the genre.So…. Rock music at Eurovision: Sure thing! The early years For the very first Rock entry, we’re going all the way back to…..1956! An entry in the very first year of Eurovision, which would not be out of place for Elvis (regardless of the language). The Austrian Freddy Quin was one of the German representatives; his song was called was “So geht das jede Nacht”. As with every entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1956, apart from the winner, the placement is unknown. Varying degrees of success and the lowest ranking Rock songs were submitted with varying degrees of success in the years that followed. In 1982 a Rock-bottom was reached: Finland’s Kojo with “Nuku pommiin”, took the very last place with 0 points. Was it really that bad, or was Europe not ready for it? Judge for yourself: Rock Win It took quite some time before Rock really made a difference at Eurovision, but in 2006 the time had come: Lordi for Finland with “Hardrock Hallelujah” won the contest with 292 points. Rock is part of it After that, Rock as a type of music at Eurovision was taken a lot more seriously. Bigger successes were achieved, and in 2018 even a Hungarian hard metal band managed to reach the finals. That AWS with “Viszlát Nyár” finished last in the grand final, doesn’t matter… They made it to the finals. The icing on the Rockcake was, of course, MÃ¥neskin in 2021. France was the big favorite (Barbara Pravi), but with 524 points, Italy left France behind.  The conclusion may be that Rock definitely belongs at Eurovision, although opinions will always be divided on this. 2024 was a year without Rock. We are curious to see what 2025 will bring.           Share

Share
Read More »