Italy: Listen to Maneskin's Eurovision version of "Zitti E Buoni"

Italy: Listen to Maneskin's Eurovision version of
Tuesday, 16 March 2021

  • The winners of the 71st Sanremo Festival and Italy's Eurovision 2021 hopefuls, the rock group Maneskin, have released the Eurovision version of "Zitti E Buoni".

    Maneskin took Europe by suprise winnng two weeks earlier Sanremo festival 2021 with their entry "Zitti E Buoni" and secured their way to Rotterdam as Italy's representatives. 

    While usually most of Saremo winning entries are longer in duration than the 3 minutes limit the Eurovision entries are required to have, this year's winning song didn't need to cut off a big part as it was longer only by 10 seconds. That eased things for the rock band to leave the song without major changes and amend it in order to comply with the EBU rules. 

    Thus, Maneskin have released the Eurovision version of their song "Zitti E Buoni" which triumphed in this year's Sanremo festival. Listen to the new ESC version below: 

     

    A few words for Maneskin 

    The group, made up of four young Romans, was born in 2015 by bassist Victoria De Angelis and guitarist Thomas Raggi, who was later joined by singer Damiano David and finally drummer Ethan Torchio.

    They rose to prominence in 2017 thanks to second place at X-Factor, and since then they have strung together one success after another. The meaning of the group's name means "Moonlight" in Danish, a nation of which bassist and founder Victoria is a native. The goups itself has many time talked warmly of Eurovision and a potential participation in the world largest televised music contest.

    As young as they may be, Måneskin have already trod several European stages in “The dance of life Tour” performing in Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom.

    Beginners in Sanremo, they won as outsiders with their "Zitti e buoni" which met with the favor of the press and televoting inaugurating the first victory of an alternative rock song at the Festival.

    If we exclude the various duo who carried the Italian flag high at the event, they are the fifth group to represent the beautiful country at the international event, after the Ricchi e Poveri, Matia Bazar, Jalisse and  Il Volo. In particular, they are the second group since Italy returned  to competition in 2011.

     

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