San Marino: Semi-final Two qualifiers of 'Una Voce Per San Marino' ; The selection continues tonight with Semi-Final Three

San Marino: Semi-final Two qualifiers of 'Una Voce Per San Marino' ; The selection continues tonight with Semi-Final Three
Tuesday, 15 February 2022

  • Three more qualifiers in the Emerging Acts category of the Sammarinese national selection for Eurovision 2022 have been determined with the second smei-final

    For 2022, SMRTV has switched to a national final holding "Una voce per San Marino"  in order to determine the next Eurovision representative. The participating artists of this year's selection are divided in two major categories: Emerging Acts and Big Acts. Nine Emerging acts and nine Big acts will make up the line up of the Grand final which will take place on February 19 2022 in the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana.

    After several days of castings, 66 acts, six from San Marino and sixty from abroad, have been shortlisted to move on to the semifinals stage in the Emerging acts category, the second semi final of which took place last evening. 

    The second set of  three qualifiers to the final show for the Emerging acts category have been determined. Namely the ones that secured the spot in the final that will select the nine emerging acts to join the national final line up are: 

    • Katrin Roselli (Artika)
    • Kurt Cassar
    • Lorenza Rocchiccioli

     

    A second set of five acts will compete on Thursday's seccond chance round: 

    • Giada Varaschin
    • Gisele Abramoff
    • Kumi Watanabe
    • Mad
    • Maria Chiara Leoni

     

    On the other hand, 10 more contestants have been eliminated from the national selection and will not continue their way in the competition: 

    • Giorgio Borghes Aka Claudia F
    • I Koko
    • Jessica Anne Condon
    • João Paulo & Miguel
    • Joe Romano & TheStolenClipper
    • Kimberly Genil
    • Le Bebae
    • Leonardo Frezzotti
    • Luca Cima
    • Luca Veneri
    • Luci Blu
    • Marco Saltari

     

    The semifinals timeline

    From February 13 to 18, these 66 acts will compete in the semifinals in order to win one of the spots in the final round for Emerging acts, from which nine acts will eventually advance to the Grand national final where they will join nine more established acts. A professional jury of 7 will judge the qualifying rounds, while 5 jurors will oversee the Grand Final.

    During the first three semi final heats (February 13-15) 20 international acts in each semi final will compete against each other. Also,  the Sammarinese acts will compete in the fourth semi final on February 16. From all four semi final rounds the top three acts qualify to the final round in the Emerging acts category. 

    On February 17 a second chance round will give the opportunity to the 15 semifinalists that finished 4th to 8th place to secure one of the four spots in stake for the final of Emerging acts. 

    Finally on February 18, 2022 the final for the Emerging acts category will take place at Teatro Titano, City of San Marino.

     

    Tonight the Third Semi-final round will be taking place with three more qualifiers to be selected. If you are interested in tonight's first semi final round of "Una Voce per San Marino" in the Emerging Acts Category you can watch it at 22:00 CET HERE.