Eurovision 2022: Mahmood and Blanco not only. Also in Turin Achille Lauro and Emma Muscat
Turin – The expectation is growing for the 2022 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. After the triumph of the Horsehair leather last year Rotterdam this year the show this year will take place in Italy, precisely in Turin: it is in fact the winning nation to win the organization of the next edition. The Italian precedent dates back to over thirty years ago: in 1990 Italy won in Zagreb with Toto Cutugno, author and interpreter of the song “Insieme: 1992” and in 1991 the Eurovision took place in Rome. This year the appointment is in the shadow of the Mole from 10 to 14 May 2022. As announced during the Sanremo Festival, the conduct of the maxi event will be entrusted to three big names in music and entertainment: Laura Pausini, Mika and Alessandro Cattelan. Representing the Belpaese will be the duo who conquered the first step of the podium at the Festival: we are obviously talking about Mahmood and Blanco with “Chills“. If for the 19-year-old from Brescia it is a debut on the European stage, for the Milanese singer-songwriter it is a return. With” Soldi “he nearly won in 2019, in the edition that took place in Tel Aviv.
but at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 there will be other protagonists known and appreciated by the Italian public. Let’s start from Achille Lauro. The singer (who ranked 14th in Sanremo with “Domenica”) won the first edition of ‘Una Voce per San Marino’. A triumph that will bring him by right to the Eurovision Song Contest scheduled in Turin. The artist won with the song ‘Stripper‘, preceding Alessandro Coli and Dj Burak Yeter, seconds, while Aaron Sibley he finished third in third place. “A great opportunity to give my music and performances an international stage – he commented -. Thank you very much to San Marino for inviting me to the very first edition of its festival and for making this possible. See you in Turin. ‘But what a stupid desire I have“.
Another artist known to the Italian public is the singer-songwriter and pianist Emma Moscatowho will participate at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 representing Malta, his country of origin. Emma is entitled to access after the victory last night in the Eurovision Contest in Malta with the song “Out of Sight” (produced from room 9) and will be one of the artists competing at the event. The singer took part in 2018 in the seventeenth edition of “Amici di Maria De Filippi”, historical Mediaset talent show, reaching the semifinal of the popular broadcast. Muscat participated in MTV Island 2018 together with Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld and Sigala and in 2019 with Martin Garrix, Bebe Rexha and Ava Max. He also duetted with Eros Ramazzotti at the Joseph Calleja concert and opened a concert by Rita Ora and Martin Garrix. In November 2018 she did a featuring with Shade with the song “Figurati Noi” which exceeded 10.5 million streams on Spotify. In April 2019 she released “Avec Moi” with Biondo (known to “Amici”) while she subsequently collaborated with Junior Cally in the single “Sigarette RMX”. In December 2019 she released the single “Vicolo Cieco”, which was followed by “Sangria” feat. Astol in the summer of 2020. On 25 June 2021 “Better in the evening” was released.