A contest to choose who will represent San Marino at Eurovision
The representative of San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 will be identified through a competition called A voice for San Marino. The objective of which, the organizers explain, will be to “combine territoriality, the participation of new proposals and the presence of already established artists: all in the name of musical quality and the ability to A voice for San Marino to present a springboard in the international music scene ».
The Festival will see the participation of both Emerging competitors and Big artists from the music sector, without the participation of the language and choice of interpretation of the piece presented for the competition.
From 13 to 19 December 2021 and from 5 to 11 January 2022, an academy for “emerging” artists enrolled in the competition will be launched in San Marino, at the Titano Theater, which will also act as a preliminary casting, while in February 2022 the competition for “emerging” artists will end with the semifinals and the final which will decree the name of the nine singers who, together with the big names selected (without any limit of nationality and language), will perform on February 19, 2022 in the final, phase in which a qualified jury will crown the winner.
For the Big Category there will be no selections, but invitations by the organizing company Media Evolution. The nine Bigs selected, like the competitors identified in the final of the Emerging category, will be able to freely choose the piece to be interpreted at the grand final.
The final of the Festival will see nine Emerging artists and nine Big competing against each other. A qualified jury will decide the winner of A voice for San Marino.
Click here to read the official festival regulations.
In the 2021 edition, won by the Maneskin, San Marino was represented by Senhit (in the opening photo), a singer born in Bologna from parents of Eritrean origins. Thanks to the victory of the Maneskin, the 2022 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Italy, although it has not yet been defined in which city.