Italy: Sanremo Festival 2022 participants unveiled

Italy: Sanremo Festival 2022 participants unveiled
Saturday, 04 December 2021

  • The Italian national broadcaster, RAI , unveiled the participants of the 72nd edition of Sanremo Festival, set to take place next February. 

    Progressing their national selection in order to determine Maneskin's successors, the Italian broadcaster has revealed the contestants of the next edition of Sanremo Festival that will determine the host nation's Eurovision 2022 representative. 

    The 22 acts to compete in the Campioni Category were revealed by RAI and are the following:

     

     

    • Elisa
    • Dargen D’Amico
    • Gianni Morandi
    • Ditonellapiaga & Donatella Rettore
    • Noemi
    • Highsnob & Hu
    • Le Vibrazioni
    • Sangiovani
    • Massimo Ranieri
    • La Rappresentante di Lista
    • Ana Mena
    • Emma
    • Achille Lauro
    • Michelle Bravi
    • Iva Zanicchi
    • RKOMI
    • Fabrizio Moro
    • Mahmood ft. Blanco
    • Giusy Ferreri
    • Irama
    • Giovanni Truppi
    • AKA7even

    Among the 2022 candidate we see six past Eurovision participants. Namely. Iva Zanicchi (ESC 1969) , Gianni Morandi (ESC 1970) Massimo Ranieri (ESC 1971 and 1973). In addition. Emma was Italy's hopeful in 2014, Fabrizio Moro in 2018 and Mahmood in 2019.

     

    Sanremo 2022

    Out of the 24 contestants, 22 have been invited by the artistic director, Amadeus, whilst the last 2 will come out of the Sanremo Giovani festival. From Tuesday 1 February live on Rai1, RaiPlay and Radio2 - the festival will unfold without any eliminations reaching the final night on February 5, during which the winner will be delcared. 


    In addition, the special evening of the Covers returns on Friday 4 February, during which the artists will perform - alone or with a guest agreed with Rai and with the Artistic Direction - a piece that can be taken not only from the Italian repertoire, but also from the international one of the 60 ', 70' or 80 '.

     

    Changes in the voting format

    During the first two evenings the jury of accredited journalists is expected to be divided into three independent voting components: a jury from the press and TV, one from the radio and one from the web. 

    In the fourth and fifth evening, however, the Jury of the Press Room, TV, Radio and Web will vote as a single component, adding to the Televoting and the "Demoscopic 1000" Jury, composed of a thousand members selected according to balanced criteria of age and geographical origin, who will vote remotely with an app especially for them.

     

    Italy in Eurovision 

    Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 46 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  the winners of Sanremo 2018 ,Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro, represented Italy in Eurovision in Lisbon with their song “Non mi avete fatto niente”. The Italian duo achieved an honorable 5th place in the Grand final with 308 points and a remarkable 3rd placing in the public voting.

    In 2019 , Mahmood, winner of Sanremo 2019 represented the country in Tel Aviv with his entry Soldi. The Italian representative kept the good results for Italy achieving a 2nd place in the Grand Final 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.

    This year 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. 

     

    News Source: RAI