San Marino: Semi-final Three qualifiers of 'Una Voce Per San Marino' ; The selection continues tonight with Semi-Final Four

San Marino: Semi-final Three qualifiers of 'Una Voce Per San Marino' ; The selection continues tonight with Semi-Final Four
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

  • The third set of three qualifiers in the Emerging Acts category of the Sammarinese national selection for Eurovision 2022 have been determined with the 3rd semi-final.

    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 and second semi-final heat, the third set of  three qualifiers to the final show for the Emerging acts category have been determined. 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: 

    • Mate
    • Raimondo Cataldo
    • Vina Rose

     

    A second set of five acts will compete on Thursday's seccond chance round: 

    • Martina Gaetano
    • Nada e Sissi
    • Sebastian Schmidt
    • Snei Ap
    • Vanja Vatle

     

    On the other hand, 11 contestants have been eliminated from the national selection and will not continue their way in the competition: 

    • Matilde Montanari
    • Matteo Giannaccini Gravante
    • OnlySara
    • Operapop
    • OXA (Clayton) Sia
    • Riccardo Foresi
    • Riccardo Guglielmi
    • Thomas Grazioso
    • Tothem
    • Valentina Tioli
    • Veronica Liberati

     

     

    The semifinals timeline

    From February 13 to 18, these 66 acts will 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 final will compete against each other. Also,  the Sammarinese acts will compete 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 a second chance round will give 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.

     

    Tonight the Fourth Semi-final round will be taking place with three more qualifiers to be selected. If you are interested in tonight's 4th semi final round of "Una Voce per San Marino" in the Emerging Acts Category you can watch it at 22:00 CET HERE.