San Marino: The participatng acts of the castings for Una voce per San Marino – Emerging Acts category revealed

San Marino: The participatng acts of the castings for Una voce per San Marino – Emerging Acts category revealed
Saturday, 04 December 2021

  • The organisers of the Sammarinese national selection have revealed the participating act in the castings  for the 'Emerging Artists' category of "Una Voce Per San Marino", the selection format San Marino is using to determine their Eurovision 2022 representative. 

    Earlier this year, in April , San Marino was one of the first countries to confirm Eurovision 2022 participation with SMRTV announcing that they will be swtiching 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.

    The Emerging acts will take part in an academy which will serve as a preliminary casting phase and will be held at “Teatro Titano”. The Sammararinese broadcaster announced the names of the act that will be taking part in those castings. namely the dates and participating acts are: 

    Casting on December 13
    1. The Sidèra
    2. Rosario Bottone
    3. Diego Federico
    4. Giada Pintori
    5. Carlo Audino
    6. Jacob Simpson
    7. Marvin Schories
    8. Pascale Filomena Pia
    9. March. & Kiera Chaplin
    10. Stefan Varga
    11. DanyWise
    12. Camille Cabaltera
    13. Giovanni & Tinashe
    14. Andrea Rutigliano
    15. Alessandro Stocco
    16. Susanna Reppucci
    17. Pietro Peloso
    18. Juri Mattia
    19. Joe Romano & TheStolenClipper
    20. Christopher Grevener
    21. Giuseppe Meca
    22. Aaron Sibley
    23. Jack Marsina & Sara De Blue
    24. Leandro Aponte
    25. Manuel Piccoli
    26. Myky Petillo
    27. Rosario Bottone
    28. Vanja Vatle
    29. Secondo e Rosanna duo
    30. Vanessa Semprini
    31. Jessica Anne Condon
    32. Theodor Xir
    33. Alessandra Simone
    34. Luca Cima
    35. Hayley Foster
    36. Gisele Abramoff
    37. Carlo Audino
    38. Silvia Cialona
    39. Nanowar Of Steel
    40. Mattia Di Bernardo
     
    Casting on December 14
    1. Sara Ricci
    2. Florent Amare
    3. Tothem
    4. Silvestrov
    5. Charles Onyeabor
    6. Williams Leslie Yapi
    7. Maria Marchione
    8. Laura Maria Giuliani
    9. Giorgio Borghes Aka Claudia F
    10. Marco D’Annunzio
    11. Francesca Bernardini
    12. Maria Chiara Leoni
    13. Rafel Senzacorona
    14. Daniela Pisciotta
    15. Marco Murrone
    16. Elisa Del Prete
    17. Annalaura Princiotto
    18. Elettra Benedetto
    19. Ylva & Linda
    20. Waleska Lafitte
    21. Angela Madonia
    22. Ferdinand Rennie
    23. Massimiliano Tufo
    24. Garon x Duan
    25. Lance Soliman
    26. Alessandro Iannone
    27. Martina Gaetano
    28. Cassidy Civet
    29. Fulvio Vasarri
    30. Yana Gorbunova
    31. Derek Conyer
    32. Ginevra Bencivenga
    33. Alessia Labate
    34. Marta Mormone
    35. Annalaura Princiotto
    36. Sara Mascella
    37. Jennifer Turri
    38. MST
    39. Alex Ferro
    40. Panagiotis Tsakalakos
     
    Casting on December 15
    1. Leandro Pallozzi
    2. Nico Calvano
    3. Diego Federico
    4. Matilde Pieri

     

    Through series of semi finals that will take place on on February 9-10-11-12-13 and a final show on February 16, 2022, nine Emerging acts will advance to the national Grand final. On the other hand, the nine Big Acts that will compete in the national final will be invited directly by Media Evolution Srl. The final outcome of the competition will be determined by a special jury panel. 

    The emerging artists that will finish in the top 3 places will receive cash prizes of €1000, €2000 and €7000 respectively.

     

    San Marino in Eurovision 

    San Marino made its first appearcance in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 with Miodio and  has scored no victory yet. The landlocked country has participated in Europe’s  televised music event 9 times and has only made it to the Grand Final twice, in 2014 when Valentina Monetta placed 24th in the Grand Final and this year with Serhat who achieve the best placing finishing 19th in the Grand final

    Valentina has flow the Sammarinese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest four times ( 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017). In 2019  Serhat flew the flag for San Marino in Tel Aviv with his entry Say Na na na,  achieving to qualify to the Grand final where he finished 19th.

    Senhit was internally selected to represent San Marino at Eurovision 2020 with entry ‘Freaky’ which was selected via an online song selection process. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled and Senhit didn't have a chance to complete her Eurovision journ

    SMRTV invited Senhit back for Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam where she performed her entry 'Adrenalina' alongside with Flo Rida and after qualifying to the final she finished 22th with a total of 50 points in the overall score. 

     

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