Italy: Festival di Sanremo 2024 Contestants Revealed
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The 27 artists that will participate in the 2024 edition of Sanremo Festival have gone public.
The artistic director of the iconic Italian music contest revealed this morning the names of the 27 artists to compete in the upcoming Saremo Festival, the show that selected the Italian Eurovision representative.
In addition the 27 acts will be joined by the top three artists of the Saremo Giovani competition set for December 19, 2023.
Namely the acts that will grace the stage in Saremo 2024 are:
- Fiorella Mannoia
- Geolier
- Dargen D’Amico
- Emma
- Fred De Palma
- Angelina Mango
- La Sad
- Diodato
- Il Tre
- Renga & NEK
- Sangiovanni
- Alfa
- Il Volo
- Alessandra Amoroso
- Gazzelle
- Negramaro
- Irama
- Rose Villain
- Mahmood
- Loredana Bertè
- The Kolors
- Big Mama
- Ghali
- Annalisa
- Mr Rain
- Maninni
- Ricchi e Poveri
The line-up of the next edition of Saremo Festival 2024 sees a big names from the Italian music industry and several that have already represented Italy in the past. Emma was Italy's delegate in 2014 while Diodato was set to represent Italy in 2020 but the contest was cancelled. Il Volo represented Italy in 2015 in Viena and Mahmood has two Eurovision participations on his record, the first one in 2019 as a solo artist and in 2022 on home soil in Turin alongside Blanco. Ricchi e Poveri also were the Italian hopefuls back in 1978.
Festival di Sanremo 2024 will be held from February 6 to 10. The format used to declare the winner will remain the same as the previous edition.
Italy in Eurovision
Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 48 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956. After a 14-year absence from 1998 and on, the country returned to the contest in 2011. Italy has won the contest twice in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti and her song “Non ho l’età”. Italy’s second victory in the contest came in 1990 with Toto Cutugno and the song “Insieme: 1992”.
Italy’s come back to the contest has proved to be very successful, the country having finished in the top ten in eight times of the last decade (2011–2021), with Raphael Gualazzi second in 2011, Nina Zilli ninth in 2012, Marco Mengoni seventh in 2013 and Il Volo third in 2015, Francesco Ghabbani 6th in Kiev, In 2018 Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, achieved an honorable 5th place while in 2019 Mahmood with 'Soldi' came second in Tel Aviv.
In 2020 Diodato might have won the Sanremo festival with 'Fai Rumore' but unfortunately didn't have the chance to perform in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled de to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2021 the rock band Maneskin won Saremo 2021 and went on representing the nation on Rotterdam where they triumphed with their song 'Zitti e Buoni' bringing the 2022 contest to Italy. On home grounds the duo Mahmood & Blanco represented the nation with their Sanremo 2022 winning song 'Brividi', finishing in the honorable 6th place.
This year Marco Mengoni made a comeback on the Eurovision stage (after 2013) with the song 'Due Vite' which came 4th in the Grand final scoring 350 points.
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