A fast information to the 2024 Sanremo Music Pageant.
Italy’s hottest music contest returns to its traditional venue on the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, a seaside city on the northwest Ligurian coast, with 30 artists battling it out over 5 nights from 6-10 February 2024.
The occasion, whose official title is the Pageant della canzone italiana di Sanremo, has been held yearly since 1951, making it the world’s longest-running annual televised music competitors at a nationwide stage.
Now in its 74th version, Sanremo was the inspiration for the Eurovision Music Contest.
As per custom, whoever wins Sanremo could have the likelihood to signify Italy on the Eurovision which is scheduled to happen in Malmö from 7-9 Could 2024.
Declare to fame
Through the years Sanremo has launched the careers of quite a few Italian acts, notably Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti and Zucchero, in addition to the 2021 winners, world sensation Mäneskin.
Mahmood & Blanco received the 2022 version of Sanremo with their music Brividi whereas Marco Mengoni received in 2023 together with his music Due vite.
The competition’s greatest declare to fame internationally is the music Nel blu, dipinto di blu, popularly generally known as “Volare“, carried out by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno on the 1958 Sanremo earlier than it took the world by storm.
Adore it or hate it
Surrounded by hype, the annual extravaganza tends to divide Italy into the “like it or hate it” camps, together with Italians who profess to by no means watch it however in actuality are among the many hundreds of thousands glued to their tv screens.
Who hosts Sanremo?
The 2024 host and inventive director, for the fifth 12 months in a row, is TV presenter Amedeo Sebastiani, higher generally known as Amadeus.
Amadeus will probably be joined by 5 co-hosts, one for every of the 5 evenings, together with final 12 months’s Sanremo winner Marco Mengoni, singer Giorgia, tv personalities Teresa Mannino and Lorella Cuccarini, and comic Rosario Fiorello.
This 12 months’s particular visitors invited to carry out at Sanremo embody pianist Giovanni Allevi, dancer Roberto Bolle and actor Russell Crowe.
Notable hosts of Sanremo over time embody veteran TV presenters Pippo Baudo and Mike Bongiorno, who every hosted a few dozen editions of the competition.
In 2001 Sanremo was offered by pop icon Raffaella Carrà who died in 2021 aged 78.
2024 performers
The next artists and acts are in competitors this 12 months: Alessandra Amoroso, Alfa, Angelina Mango, Annalisa, BigMama, Dargen D’Amico, Diodato, Emma, Fiorella Mannoia, Fred De Palma, Gazzelle, Geolier, Ghali, Il Tre, Il Volo, Irama, La Unhappy, Loredana Berté, Mahmood, Maninni, Mr. Rain, Negramaro, Renga e Nek, Ricchi e Poveri, Rose Villain, Sangiovanni, The Kolors, Santi Francesi, Clara, and bnkr44.
Sanremo origins
The origins of Sanremo return to post-war Italy when the competition was established to revitalise the battered financial system and forge a brand new cultural identification.
Between 1953 and 1971 the competition welcomed visitor artists from overseas who launched their songs to a brand new Italian viewers.
Among the many many worldwide acts who carried out at Sanremo throughout this period had been Louis Armstrong, Stevie Marvel, Cher, Dionne Warwick and Shirley Bassey.
Pageant format
Every act performs a new, authentic music, which has by no means been launched, with the winner chosen by a jury and an on-line public vote.
The artists, divided into two teams, carry out their songs over the primary two nights of the competition.
The singers then return to the stage to carry out once more, whereas the Friday night time will see the acts carry out covers of Italian or worldwide songs recorded between the Nineteen Sixties and 2000s.
On the final night time the singers will carry out their songs once more earlier than the winner is introduced.
The place to look at Sanremo
The competition will probably be screened by state broadcaster RAI 1 each night, ranging from 20.35, and in streaming on Rai Play, from 6-10 February.
Tips on how to observe Sanremo
The competition could be adopted on its official web site in addition to its social media channels.
Cowl picture: Teatro Ariston throughout the opening night time of the seventieth Sanremo Music Pageant on 3 February 2020. Picture credit score: Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com.
