San Marino: Second chance round qualifiers determined ; Emerging acts final line-up for 'Una Voce per San Marino' completed

San Marino: Second chance round qualifiers determined ; Emerging acts final line-up for 'Una Voce per San Marino' completed
Friday, 18 February 2022

  • The last five qualifiers for the final show in the Emergings acts category of 'Una Voce per San Marino' have been determined with this evening's second chance round. 

    For 2022, SMRTV has switched 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.

    After several days of castings, 66 acts, six from San Marino and sixty from abroad, have been shortlisted to move on to the semifinals stage in the Emerging acts category, the second semi final of which took place last evening. 

    Fllowing the first ,  second , third   and fourth semi final heat, the last set of five qualifiers to the final show for the Emerging acts category have been determined, completing the final line-up for Friday's final show. Namely the ones that secured the spot in the final that will select the nine emerging acts to join the national final line up are: 

    • Maria Chiara Leoni
    • Alessia Labate
    • Sebastian Schmidt
    • Frio
    • Kumi Watanabe

     

    The ones that didn't make it to the final show and are leaving the competition are: 

    • Anna Faragò
    • Daniela Pisciotta
    • Eliška Mrázová
    • Giada Varaschin
    • Gisele Abramoff
    • Mad
    • Martina Gaetano
    • Nada & Sissi
    • Snei Ap
    • Vanja Vatle

     

    The semifinals timeline

    From February 13 to 18,  66 acts compete in the semifinals in order to win one of the spots in the final round for Emerging acts, from which nine acts will eventually advance to the Grand national final where they will join nine more established acts. A professional jury of 7 will judge the qualifying rounds, while 5 jurors will oversee the Grand Final.

    During the first three semi final heats (February 13-15) 20 international acts in each semi finalcompete against each other. Also,  the Sammarinese acts competed in the fourth semi final on February 16. From all four semi final rounds the top three acts qualify to the final round in the Emerging acts category. 

    On February 17 the second chance round gave the opportunity to the 15 semifinalists that finished 4th to 8th place to secure one of the four spots in stake for the final of Emerging acts. 

    Finally on February 18, 2022 the final for the Emerging acts category will take place at Teatro Titano, City of San Marino.

     

    New Source: SMRTV