San Marino: The Jury members to determine the finalists of the Emerging Acts Category for 'Una Voce per San Marino' unveiled

San Marino: The Jury members to determine the finalists of the Emerging Acts Category for 'Una Voce per San Marino' unveiled
Saturday, 01 January 2022

  • The Sammarinese national broadcaster, SMRTV, has unveiled the jurors that will determine the finalists in the Emerging acts category of "Una Voce per San Marino". 

    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 jury that will determine the finalists of the specific category consists of the following members: 

     

    Maurizio Raimo , manager and record producer, has collaborated with David Zard, Mireille Mathieu, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Raquel Welch, Franco Battiato, Riccardo Cocciante, Amanda Lear, Franco Califano, Loredana Bertè, Dionne Warwick, Notre Dame de Paris, Tale and Which Show, Your Facts, Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Artistic Director of the Christmas Concert in the Vatican.

    Nabuk , producer and musician for Jovanotti, Pino Daniele, Eros Ramazzoti, Giorgia, Gianni Morandi, Negrita, Ambra Angiolini, directed the orchestra of the Sanremo Festival for Denny Losito. Composer of soundtracks for films and documentaries for Rai, Mediaset, Netflix and Sky. International producer of Jazz-World music and Pop-Dance House.

    Mimmo Paganelli , independent producer and music consultant. Artistic director of EMI. He collaborated with Rino Gaetano, Mia Martini, Ivan Graziani, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori, Renato Zero for RCA; Vasco Rossi, Francesco Guccini, Roberto Vecchioni, Franco Battiato, Angelo Branduardi, Ivano Fossati, Tiziano Ferro, Mango, Edoardo Bennato, Stadium for the EMI.

    Roberta Faccani , former leading voice of Matia Bazar, artist known for the musicals production of "Rent", "Pinocchio", "Alice in Wonderland", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Zerovskij", as well as founder of the Academy and singing method La Fabbrica del Cantante Actore and of the Bandidos Records label.

    Emilio Munda , producer, composer and author for Il Volo, Umberto Tozzi, Francesco Renga, Nina Zilli, I Nomadi, Michele Bravi, Paolo Meneguzzi. He has won several Gold and Platinum records, twice in a row he wins the podium at the Sanremo Festival.

    Roberto Costa , bassist, sound engineer, arranger and producer for Lucio Dalla, Stadio, Ivan Graziani, Ron, Luca Carboni, Mina, Gianni Morandi, Luca Barbarossa and Luciano Pavarotti. Author and producer of music for cinema, theater and television. Professional Area Expert / Qualification within the SRFC of the Emilia Romagna Region for the training of certified Sound Technicians.

    Steve Lyon , London-based sound engineer and producer, has collaborated with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Sir Paul McCartney, the Banshees,, Reamonn, S, Marco Guazone, Laura Pausini, 99 Posse, Eros Ramazzotti. He has obtained numerous Platinum and Gold Records and two Latin Grammys.

     

    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 appearance 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. 

    News Source: SMRTV