San Marino: SMRTV releases the details of the ESC 2022 national selection “Una Voce per San Marino”

San Marino: SMRTV releases the details of the ESC 2022 national selection “Una Voce per San Marino”
Wednesday, 22 September 2021

  • The Sammarinese national broadcaster, SMRTV, has released all the details around the country's Eurovision 2022 national selection "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 country has held a national selection once in the past, only in 2018 with the show 1in360, through which the act and entry were determined in a national final that took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. 

    Today the micro state's national broadcaster went a step further revealing the details of the national selection for Eurovision 2022. Behind the priduction of the show are along with the SMRTV,  Evolution Srl, the Ministry of Tourism, Posts, Cooperation and Expo of the Republic of San Marino. 

    San Marino TV has released the rules and regulations of the upcoming national selection. The project will unfold between December and February with the participating artists 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 we serve as a preliminary casting phase and will be held at “Teatro Titano”. 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. 

    While all acts and songs must comply with the general rules set by EBU there are no restrictions regarding the contestants' nationality. Interested acts in taking part in the national selection should send in their applications through theofficial “Una Voce per San Marino” website until January 8, 2022.

     

    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 journey,

    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: San Marino RTV

    Image: SMRTV