Tonight Italy decides for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017! The winner of the Campioni category at the 2017 Sanremo Song Festival will be eligible to represent Italy at Eurovision in Kyiv this May. The Final is forecast to last about 3 hours and 40 minutes, so sit back […]
Italy have decided and the stunning Francesca Michielin is Eurovision bound. Michielin was the runner-up in the Sanremo Festival last night to the band Stadio. However Stadio had first refusal to decline the offer of going to Stockholm and they exercised that right. RAI then looked at the other […]
Italian style reigned supreme tonight. So after a week of the wonderful Sanremo Festival the winners were decided to be the group Stadio. The reward for their efforts is first refusal of representing Italy at Eurovision and decided that Eurovision was not for them. Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed […]
We have a winner of ‘Sanremo 2016’ If you were watching from tonight (and all week)then you will see that we were in for a tricolour of Italian music from The Teatro Ariston in San Remo. The Top3 classified after the first votes were in were STADIO, GIOVANNI CACCAMO & DEBORAH […]
There is something quintessentially Italian about the Sanremo Music Festival – That’s why we love it! Last night was show 2 of the festival. We saw the 20 acts in the Campioni Category perform again and the Top 6 and Bottom 4 were posted – in no particular order. […]
Italian Style At It’s Best Last night the first round of the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival 2016 took place. The winner of the Campioni category will have the right to go to Eurovision 2016. If they decline the opportunity then the Italian delegation will look to the other […]
BETTING ODDS – With only 3 songs selected for Eurovision 2016 – Nicky Byrne from Ireland, Laura Tesoro from Belgium and Eneda Tarifa from Albania you would imagine that the betting odds for the contest would not be up to much at the moment. How wrong you would […]
Carlo Conti who is the presenter, musical director and heartbeat of the Sanremo Music Festival spills the beans (cannellini probably) on the participants in the 2016 edition of the prestigious contest. Speaking on Italian television Conti said “The choice of the singers in the competition was tough,” says […]
ITALY : The 3 minute version of Il Volo’s ‘Grande Amore’ for Eurovision – What do you think? The Sanremo Festival winners and Italian Eurovision representatives Il Volo had a challenge on their hands to get their song ‘Grande Amore’ down to 3 minutes long for the contest. […]
Eurovision Betting Odds as of February 19th – What can they tell us? With us mid way through the national selection season for Eurovision 2015 it is worth taking a look at who is getting the early betting odds from across Europe. As of this morning – February […]