‘A voice for San Marino’ for Eurovision, super guest Al Bano remembers Michael Jackson: “It’s my tribute to the king of pop”
The Eurovision theme opens the program, it is immediately listened to again Adrenalinethe song of Senhit which last year represented the Republic of San Marino at Eurovision. Live on Rtv, the network of the small Republic, even the Big ones challenge each other surprisingly, among others Achille Lauro, Ivana Spagna, Valerio Scanu, Alberto Fortis and the former Formula 3 drummer Tony Cicco, all in the running to win a place at Eurovision thanks to the television network of the Republic of San Marino. In the stalls, among the spectators protected by the mask, there is also the maestro Peppe Vessicchio. It looks like a small Sanremo. The festival is titled “A voice for San Marino” and is held live on Rtv from the Teatro Nuovo di Dogana in the small state, a competition in which, alongside the nine emerging players selected in the preliminary stages, also the big big names will compete.
On the eve held the choices of the bench Achille Lauro: it was known that you sang an unreleased song whose title, Stripper, already foreshadowed possible surprises on stage, especially after the controversy over the Sanremo performances, starting with the fake baptism on the stage of the Ariston. If this were not enough, the Roman rapper and songwriter had prevented anyone from attending his rehearsals on the stage of the Teatro Nuovo di Dogana, and this had multiplied the expectations for a possible twist. But on the stage, showing up in a nude midnight blue dress but with a torso, Lauro limited himself to twirling his pelvis and investigating with his hand in his pants as he had already done on the stage of the Ariston. “Madonna what a woman I am, no one can judge me”, he sings in the song, then takes off his jacket, remains bare-chested, more than the scandal could the wait: and so the audience all standing applauding and shouting with enthusiasm.
Hit of nostalgia when the super guest of the evening took to the stage, Al Bano, together with a blue scarf and white Borsalino, to sing the song that brought Romina Power to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976, winning seventh place. In place of Romina, however, here the singer from Cellino San Marco is accompanied by two choristers. Then with Senhit Al Bano has admitted the cause that opposes him to Michael Jackson about the plagiarism of The swans of Balaka revived by the American singer four years after its release for You will be there. “A tribute to the great Jackson,” Al Bano said, “and a way to that memory cause that, the lawyers told me, the king of pop couldn’t lose, and so we agreed.”
There is also Valerio Scanu, former winner of Friends Of Maria De Filippi and, in 2010, of the Sanremo Festival. Artists who have come out of the spotlight for some years now are also competing, such as Ivana Spaincome the Formula 3 drummer Tony Cicco competing with the Roman band Deshedus and with Alberto Forti. There will be no announced rapper Blind, one of the protagonists of the 2020 season of X-Factor, forced at the last moment to forfeit for health reasons. The super guest of the evening will be Al Banothe presenters will be SenhitItalian-Eritrean artist who represented San Marino at Eurovision in 2021, and the Israeli Jonathan Kashanianformer competitor of Big Brother. “What are we two doing with San Marino?”, Jonathan asked Senhit at the opening. “I represented the Republic three times at Eurovision, isn’t that enough?” Senhit replied, who then ironically concluded: “And then, if a Sardinian who lives in Los Angeles makes a commercial for Liguria in Sanremo, why shouldn’t she be fine too here in San Marino?”.
Eurovision 2021, Senhit in the final for San Marino: “Italians vote for me!”
by Carlo Moretti
In some moments the show really resembles a miniature Sanremo Festival, it follows the same type of language. Senhit takes off her wig and mentions a monologue on the theme “the courage to be free”. He says he is recognized with the Sanremo monologue of Drusilla Foer on uniqueness. Then, when the singer arrives on stage Suffice itmustache and light makeup, to interpret his Running dressed only in a black bodysuit with crotch crotch and ankle boots with heels, Jonathan greets him by turning him around twelve and then commenting: “This scene will have aroused some hilarity in the older generations, who may not understand, but it is now some year that so much ostentatious extravagance rises on the stages of festivals and musical events. I would say, however, that it is wrong to define it fluidity, it is a word that I do not like, I prefer to define it as freedom “. Finally, in contrast to what the Sanremo Festival did not do, causing some controversy, the San Marino festival pays tribute Raoul Casadei a year after his death, and his son Mirko made the audience of the Teatro Nuovo sing to the tune of Bye bye Sea.
Until a few years ago, when theEurovision music competitionindeed, as they used to say then, theEurofestivalwe thought of a tv show closer to Games without Frontiers than at a music festival, a colorful bandwagon made up of absurd sets, singers dressed in a bizarre way and genuinely out of the question songs. It was not uncommon, then, that some artists gave up the participation despite having won the right thanks to the victory at the Sanremo Festival. A lot has changed in recent years and especially after last year’s victory Horsehair leather with Shut up and goodnow it seems that everyone wants to win a place at Eurovision, at any cost, even by resorting to the ploy of competing for San Marino, the small Republic of Central Italy which thanks to its national TV network Rtv has the right to a place among the contestants of the European festival.
The Maneskins triumph at Eurovision 2021
by Ernesto Assante
According to the regulations of the San Marino event, to get to challenge competitors at Eurovision, including also for Italy Mahmood And White thanks to the victory in Sanremo with Chills, the only requirement is to be 16 years old while there are no nationality and language limits. The performances of the competitors in the competition will be submitted to the judgment of 5 professionals of the sector gathered in the jury chaired by Mughal: I’m Simone Lee (conductor, composer, arranger, orchestrator, music supervisor for Andrew Lloyd Webber, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic); Clarissa Martinelli (speaker of Radio Bruno); Susanna Giorghi (Danish singer but Andorran by adoption, he participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 representing the small state of Andorra); Dino Stewart (CEO of Bmg Italia). In addition to the right to fly in May for Eurovision in Turin, the first classified among the finalists will also win 7 thousand euros.