Sanremo 2024 - the post!
Hello everyone! Here you’ll find this year’s Sanremo’s stuff and news (I’ll be uploading this post through all the week). The Festival will start on Tuesday February 6th at 8:30 pm (it’ll probably have a 5 minutes “anteprima = preview” every night), and end on Saturday February 10th, when the final will be broadcasted.
/ Official website / you can find loads of videos and interviews here + the latest news. You can already find the presentation videos of the songs made by the artists.
Rai’s website dedicated section (here) | youtube playlist | spotify playlist
TikTok official channel: @/sanremorai; @/sanremoesc
Instagram official: @/sanremorai
Twitter official: @/SanremoRAI; @/SanremoESC
Facebook: festivaldisanremo
Also this year we’ll have the PrimaFestival, the small show broadcasted on Rai1 at around 8:30 p.m. (February 4th - February 10th). The hosts are Paola & Chiara (singers), Mattia Stanga and Daniele Cabras (tiktokers).
There's gonna be some kind of Dopofestival, with Fiorello and Alessia Marcuzzi (tv/radio host) called “Viva Rai2!… Viva Sanremo” (jingle/sigla) right after the end of each Sanremo's night (6th-9th Feb.). Gli Autogol (comedians soccer-related) will complete some missions for Amadeus on Raiplay.
CasaSanremo- A website about Sanremo and all the artists who will take part, with more infos and interviews (also Italian places and food specialties will be shown). Follow them also on their Social Media Channels, usually they make live video/interviews/shows on FB for example.
On Sorrisi&Canzoni you will find also other infos about Sanremo and every lyrics’s explanation (ofc ask me if you need a translation)
The # on this blog is #sanremo 2024, #sanremo, #sanremo2024 you can black any of these (the first one in particular) if you want.
To watch it live:
Raiuno -> just click on the first video on the left, or here, to open the Raiuno streaming immediately (I added the whole Rai channels things in case you had troubles connecting directly and wanted to try from there). The RAI’s geoblock is usually removed for Sanremo’s week, no need to create accounts or whatsoever to enjoy Sanremo online!! Remember you can rewatch the whole event and each performance on Raiplay few minutes after it has happened (and the whole week will be avaiable as well for basically the whole following year).
FESTIVAL LIS - songs and whole exhibition explained in signs language
FANTASANREMO - this year as well you can play while enjoying your Sanremo! How does it work? Every person “buys” 5 artisti and marks one of them as a captain. As in the last years, artists will have to do or say something while on stage to help you gain points (and also classification will have a say).
I’ll try to write down some more infos/links through the week.
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Hosts & Guests + Other Stuff
This years’ host will still be Amadeus (who choose the songs taking part into this Sanremo), a TV and radio host. He will be accompanied by a different co-host each night: Marco Mengoni (singer; first night); Giorgia (singer; second night); Teresa Mannino (actress, comedian; third night); Lorella Cuccarini (actress, tv host, dancer, dance teacher in AMICI tv show; fourth night); Fiorello (tv and radio host, comedian, singer; last night).
Some of the one-night guests during the week will be: John Travolta (actor, dancer); Giovanni Allevi (musician); Marco Mengoni (singer); Sabrina Ferilli (actress); Giorgia (singer) will celebrate her song "E poi"'s 30th anniversary; Russel Crowe (actor, singer); Eros Ramazzotti (singer) will celebrate his song "Una terra promessa"'s 40th anniversary; Roberto Bolle (dancer); the cast of "Mameli" (new serie about the guy who wrote our National anthem); Leo Gassman (actor, singer); the cast of "Il Mare fuori" (Raiplay serie); The Nuova Orchestra Santa Balera to celebrate "Romagna Mia"'s 70th anniversary; Gigliola Cinquetti (singer) will celebrate her song "Non ho l'età"'s 60th anniversary.
How it works
There will be 30 singers in the ARTISTI (artists) section. It will be the only section, as last year. 27 artists were chosen by Amadeus, while the other 3 are the winners of Sanremo Giovani (held in December 2023). The winner of the competition will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest: if he/she/they won’t accept, the choice will be another artist, usually the 2nd classified or the next (the first one accepting).
This year we're gonna listen to all the 30 songs on the first night. The 2nd and 3rd night, we'll get to listen to 15 songs each night. The artisti that are not performing during the 2nd night will introduce the performing ones and vice versa on the 3rd night. The artisti introducing the performing artisti will be decided by a public draw during the Sanremo's press conferences on the 2nd and 3rd day.
On the 4th night, there will be the usual “covers” night: the artisti this year can choose any song, national or international, from any year (until December 2023) and by anyone (even themselves).
Day 1 - co-hosts: Marco Mengoni
Prob. guests: Marco Mengoni; Zlatan Ibrahimovic; Federica Brignone; omaggio a Toto Cutugno; Banda dei Carabinieri + on the Costa Cruise: Tedua and in the square: Lazza
We’ll listen to all the 30 songs (in order of performance: Clara, Sangiovanni, Fiorella Mannoia, La Sad, Irama, Ghali, Negramaro, annalisa, Mahmood, Diodato, Loredana Bertè, Geolier, Alessandra Amoroso, The Kolors, Angelina Mango, Il Volo, BigMama, Ricchie Poveri, Emma, RengaNek, Mr. Rain, Bnkr44, Gazzelle, Dargen D'Amico, Rose Villain, Santi Francesi, Fred De Palma, Maninni, Alfa, Il Tre).
We'll have a first top5 rank (the whole list will be presented only Saturday):
Day 2 - co-hosts: Giorgia
Prob. guests: the non-performing 15 artists; Giovanni Allevi; Giorgia; John Travolta; Nuova Orchestra Santa Balera; Leo Gassman; Cast "Mare fuori"; Ruggero del Vecchio + on the Costra Cruise: Bob Sinclair and in the square: Rosa Chemical
We'll listen to 15 artisti (artist presenting -> artist singing in order of appearance: ghali -> fred de palma; la sad -> renganek; mr.rain -> alfa; diodato -> dargen d'amico; rose villain -> il volo; bnkr44 -> gazzelle; santi francesi -> emma; alessandra amoroso -> mahmood; il tre -> bigmama; angelina mango -> the kolors; fiorella mannoia -> geolier; sangiovanni -> loredana bertè; mannini -> annalisa; ricchi e poveri -> irama; negramaro -> clara)
We’ll have an updated rank:
Day 3 - co-hosts: Teresa Mannino
Prob. guests: the non-performing 15 artists; Russel Crowe and his band; Eros Ramazzotti; Sabrina Ferilli; coro Arena di Verona; Gianni Morandi; Stefano Massini e Paolo Jannacci + on the Costa Cruise: Bresh and in the square: Paola & Chiara
The 15 artisti that didn't perform yesterday will perform their entry to the contest (artist presenting -> artist singing in order of appearance: loredana bertè -> il tre; alfa -> maninni; fred de palma -> bnkr44; clara -> santi francesi; il volo -> mr rain; gazzelle -> rose villain; dargen d'amico -> alessandra amoroso; bigmama -> ricchi e poveri; irama -> angelina mango; the kolors -> diodato; mahmood -> ghali; emma -> negramaro; annalisa -> fiorella mannoia; renganek -> sangiovanni; geolier -> la sad)
Classification after tonight:
Day 4 - co-hosts: Lorella Cuccarini
Prob. guests: Cast "Mameli"; principe Alberto di Monaco; Pecco Bagnaia; Elena Sofia Ricci e Margherita Buy; i Jalisse; il maestro Beppe Vessicchio + on the Costa Cruise: Gigi D'Agostino and in the square: Arisa
The 30 artists will present a song’s cover, each of them will perform together with a guest or more, unless they're already a band/group and will decide otherwise.
Covers’ list (in order of appearance):
Sangiovanni con Aitana - Medley di "Farfalle" e "Mariposas" (Sangiovanni)
Annalisa con La Rappresentante di Lista e il coro Artemia - "Sweet dreams (Are made of this)" (Eurythmics)
Rose Villain con Gianna Nannini - Medley
Gazzelle con Fulminacci - "Notte prima degli esami" (Antonello Venditti)
The Kolors con Umberto Tozzi - Medley dei successi di Umberto Tozzi
Alfa con Roberto Vecchioni - "Sogna ragazzo sogna" (Roberto Vecchioni)
Bnkr44 con Pino D'Angiò - "Ma quale idea" (Pino D'Angiò)
Irama con Riccardo Cocciante - "Quando finisce un amore" (Riccardo Cocciante)
Fiorella Mannoia con Francesco Gabbani - "Che sia benedetta" (Fiorella Mannoia -Saremo 2017) e "Occidentali's karma" (Francesco Gabbani -Sanremo 2017)
Santi Francesi con Skin - "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen)
Ricchi e Poveri con Paola & Chiara - Medley di "Sarà perché ti amo" e "Mamma Maria" (Ricchi e Poveri)
Ghali con Ratchopper - Medley dal titolo "Italiano vero"
Clara con Ivana Spagna e il Coro di voci bianche del Teatro Regio di Torino - "Il cerchio della vita" (Ivana Spagna -Lion King's ST)
Loredana Bertè con Venerus - "Ragazzo mio" (Luigi Tenco con l'arrangiamento di Ivano Fossati)
Geolier con Guè, Luchè e Gigi D'Alessio - Medley dal titolo "Strade"
Angelina Mango con il quartetto d'archi dell'orchestra di Roma - "La rondine" (Mango)
Alessandra Amoroso con i BoomDaBash - Medley
Dargen D'Amico con BabelNova Orchestra - Omaggio a Ennio Morricone: “Modigliani” (sulle note di The Crisis)
Mahmood con i Tenores di Bitti - "Come è profondo il mare" (Lucio Dalla)
Mr.Rain con i Gemelli Diversi - "Mary" (Gemelli Diversi)
Negramaro con Malika Ayane - "La canzone del sole" (Lucio Battisti)
Emma con Bresh - Medley di Tiziano Ferro
Il Volo con Stef Burns - "Who wants to live forever" (Queen)
Diodato con Jack Savoretti - "Amore che vieni, amore che vai" (Fabrizio De André)
La Sad con Donatella Rettore - "Lamette" (Donatella Rettore)
Il Tre con Fabrizio Moro - Medley di Fabrizio Moro
BigMama con Gaia, La Niña e Sissi - "Lady Marmalade" (Labelle)
Maninni con Ermal Meta - "Non mi avete fatto niente" (Ermal Meta, Fabrizio Moro -Saremo 2018)
Fred De Palma con gli Eiffel 65 - Medley degli Eiffel 65
Renga Nek - Medley dei loro successi
Top 5 covers (all the other entries are considered as 6th):
We’ll also have a new general rank.
Day 5 - co-hosts: Fiorello
Prob. guests: Roberto Bolle (dancer); Gigliola Cinquetti; Luca Argentero, Claudio Gioè (actors-Màkari 3) + on the Costa Cruise: Tedua and in the square: Tananai
All the 30 artisti will perform again their songs (in order of appearance: renganek, bigmama, gazzelle, dargen d'amico, il volo, loredana bertè, negramaro, mahmood, santi francesi, diodato, fiorella mannoia, alessandra amoroso, alfa, irama, ghali, annalisa, angelina mango, geolier, emma, il tre, ricchi e poveri, the kolors, maninni, la sad, mr.rain, fred de palma, sangiovanni, clara, bnkr44, rose villain) and after midnight (prob. more like 1:30-2:30 am.) we’ll know the competition’s first 5 classified and all the special awards winners. The first 5 classified will perform again and get new votes to decide the final standings. The winner will go to the #ESC2024.
And the winner is: Angelina Mango!
Final standing:
Angelina Mango - "La noia"
Geolier - "I p' me tu p' te"
Annalisa - "Sinceramente"
Ghali - "Casa mia"
Irama - "Tu no"
Mahmood - "Tuta gold"
Loredana Bertè - "Pazza"
Il Volo - "Capolavoro"
Alessandra Amoroso - "Fino a qui"
Alfa - "Vai!"
Gazzelle - "Tutto qui"
Il Tre - "Fragili"
Diodato - "Ti muovi"
Emma - "Apnea"
Fiorella Mannoia - "Mariposa"
The Kolors - "Un ragazzo una ragazza"
Mr.Rain - "Due altalene"
Santi Francesi - "L'amore in bocca"
Negramaro - "Ricominciamo tutto"
Dargen D'Amico - "Onda alta"
Ricchi e Poveri - "Ma non tutta la vita"
BigMama - "La rabbia non ti basta"
Rose Villain - "Click boom!"
Clara - "Diamanti grezzi"
Renga Nek - "Pazzo di te"
Maninni - "Spettacolare"
La Sad - "Autodistruttivo"
Bnkr44 - "Governo punk"
Sangiovanni - "Finiscimi"
Fred De Palma - "Il cielo non ci vuole"
ANGELINA MANGO will take part at the ESC 2024!
Other Awards:
- Premio della critica “Mia Martini” : Loredana Bertè "Pazza"
- Premio della sala stampa “Lucio Dalla” : Angelina Mango "La noia"
- Premio miglior testo “Sergio Bardotti” : Fiorella Mannoia "Mariposa"
- Premio miglior composizione musicale “Giancarlo Bigazzi” : Angelina Mango "La noia"
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Artists (+ lyrics):
Alessandra Amoroso - "Fino a qui"
Alfa - "Vai!"
Angelina Mango - "La noia"
Annalisa - "Sinceramente"
BigMama - "La rabbia non ti basta"
Bnkr44 - "Governo Punk"
Clara - "Diamanti grezzi"
Dargen D'Amico - "Onda alta"
Diodato - "Ti muovi"
Emma - "Apnea"
Fiorella Mannoia - "Mariposa"
Fred De Palma - "Il cielo non ci vuole"
Gazzelle - "Tutto qui"
Geolier - "I p' me, tu p' te"
Ghali - "Casa mia"
Il Tre - "Fragili"
Il Volo - "Capolavoro"
Irama - "Tu no"
La Sad - "Autodistruttivo"
Loredana Berté - "Pazza"
Mahmood - "Tuta gold"
Maninni - "Spettacolare"
Mr.Rain - "Due altalene"
Negramaro - "Ricominciamo tutto"
Renga e Nek - "Pazzo di te"
Ricchi e Poveri - "Ma non tutta la vita"
Rose Villain - "Click boom!"
Sangiovanni - "Finiscimi"
Santi Francesi - "L'amore in bocca"
The Kolors - "Un ragazzo una ragazza"
[all the lyrics can be found on this page]
(will edit with more updates, corrections and links as we get closer to the event)
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Loredana Bertè & Mia Martini: 2 voices from Calabria, Italy
Italian sisters and singers Loredana Bertè and Mia Martini were born in Bagnara Calabra (Calabria, Italy), respectively in 1950 and 1947.
Mia Martini is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.
Her debut album, Oltre la collina is regarded as one of the best Italian albums made by a female artist. Hit songs like Piccolo uomo, Donna sola, Minuetto, made her one of the most popular artists of Italian music in the 1970s, both nationally and internationally. She is the only female artist to have won two Festivalbar consecutively, respectively in 1972 and in 1973.
In 1977, two important encounters occurred in Martini's life: the first with Charles Aznavour, with whom she began a musical collaboration, and the second with singer-songwriter Ivano Fossati, with whom she started an artistic and sentimental partnership.
In 1982, she sang E non finisce mica il cielo, written by Fossati, at Sanremo Music Festival, where she received the Critics Award, which was created specifically for her interpretation and which was named after her as "Mia Martini" Critics Awards from 1996, the year after her death.
In 1983, she was forced to leave the music industry and quit her career, as the music sector and colleagues considered her a person bringing bad luck and barred her from participating in any music and TV events, radio shows and concerts. This kept her away from the music scene for seven years. Only in 1989 was she able to reprise her career, when she returned to perform at Sanremo Music Festival, singing Almeno tu nell'universo, which brought her a new success.
She died on 12 May 1995 in Cardano al Campo at the age of 47.
After her death, the town Bagnara Calabra dedicated to the singer.
Loredana Bertè is a singer-songwriter and artist who has been in the music industry for over five decades. She has released twenty-one studio albums, five live albums, and three soundtracks throughout her career. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she has also collaborated with other renowned artists such as Gianna Nannini, Angelo Branduardi, and Claudio Baglioni.
In her long career, Bertè has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to pop. Bertè is known for the eccentric clothing she wears onstage for her performances.
One of her most popular song is E la luna bussò, an Italian reggae ballad which stayed on the Italian Singles Chart for 29 weeks.
In the 1980s Bertè achieved success in Italy with songs such as Maledetto Luna-Park, Una Sera d'Ottobre, and 'Ti Sento'. She also released two successful studio albums during this period: 'Loredana' (1985) and 'Loredana Berté' (1986). In 1988 she represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Non siamo soli'.
Bertè is one of Italy's most beloved singers and has achieved great success throughout her career. She has sold over 12 million records worldwide and continues to be an inspiration to generations of fans across the globe.
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LA NOIA | ANGELINA MANGO
Quanti disegni ho fatto
How many drawings I made
Rimango qui e li guardo
I stay here and look at them
Nessuno prende vita
None comes to life
Questa pagina è pigra
This paper is lazy
Vado di fretta
I am in a hurry
E mi hanno detto che la vita è preziosa
And they told me that life is precious
Io la indosso a testa alta sul collo
I wear it head held high on my neck
La mia collana non ha perle di saggezza
My necklace doesn't have pearls of wisdom (perle di saggezza=> idiomatic, could also be used ironically "words of wisdom")
A me hanno dato le perline colorate
They gave me colored beads
Per le bimbe incasinate con i traumi
For young girls messed up with traumas
Da snodare piano piano con l'età
To slowly untie while growing older
Eppure sto una Pasqua, guarda, zero drammi
And yet I'm doing great, look, no dramas (stare una Pasqua => idiomatic and usually very ironic, "to feel/do great")
Quasi quasi cambio di nuovo città
Maybe I (should) move to another city once again (quasi quasi => idiomatic, when you think about a chance you say "Maybe...")
Che a stare ferma a me mi viene, a me mi viene
If I stand still I get, I get ("a me mi" is a colloquial grammatically wrong concept that translates literally as "it comes to me"; it should be "a me viene" but for lyrical/musical lyrics is okay to find this in songs)
La noia
Bored(om) (for translations reasons -aka the sentence construction in English- I'm using the adjective "bored" here but "noia" is a noun so the literal translation is "boredom")
La noia
Bored(om)
La noia
Bored(om)
La noia
Bored(om)
Muoio senza morire, in questi giorni usati
I die without dying, in these used days
Vivo senza soffrire, non c'è croce più grande
I live without suffering, there's no greatest trial ("croce" here has a figurative meaning as in "portare una croce", idiomatic, meaning basically "to bring pain/affliction/trials *on your shoulders*")
Non ci resta che ridere in queste notti bruciate
We cannot do anything but laugh in those burnt nights (like the famous movie's title "non ci resta che piangere" but from a happier/ironic pov)
Una corona di spine sarà il dress-code per la mia festa
A crown of thorns will be the dress-code for my party
Ah, è la cumbia della noia, mmh
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
The cumbia of boredom
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Ah, è la cumbia della noia
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
It's the cumbia of boredom
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Quanta gente nelle cose vede il male
So many people see the evil in things ("quanto/a/i/e" if not used as a question usually means "a lot", "there are so many...")
Viene voglia di scappare come iniziano a parlare
One feels like running away as they start talking
E vorrei dirgli che sto bene ma poi mi guardano male
And I'd like to tell them I'm doing good but then they look at me sideways
Allora dico che è difficile campare
So I say that it's hard to keep on living
Business, parli di business
Business, you talk about business
Intanto chiudo gli occhi per firmare i contratti, mmh
In the meantime I close my eyes to sign contracts
Princess, ti chiama "princess"
Princess, (he) calls you "princess"
Allora adesso smettila di lavare i piatti
Then stop washing dishes now
Muoio senza morire, in questi giorni usati
I die without dying, in these used days
Vivo senza soffrire, non c'è croce più grande
I live without suffering, there's no greatest trial
Non ci resta che ridere in queste notti bruciate
We cannot do anything but laugh in those burnt nights
Una corona di spine sarà il dress-code per la mia festa
A crown of thorns will be the dress-code for my party
Ah, è la cumbia della noia, mmh
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
The cumbia of boredom
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Ah, è la cumbia della noia
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
It's the cumbia of boredom
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Allora scrivi canzoni?
So you write songs?
Sì, le canzoni d'amore
Yes, love songs
E non ti voglio annoiare
And I don't want to bore you
Ma qualcuno le deve cantare
But someone needs to sing them
Cumbia, ballo la cumbia
Cumbia, I dance the cumbia
Se rischio di inciampare almeno fermo la noia
If I risk to stumble at least I stop the boredom
Quindi faccio una festa, faccio una festa
Therefore I make/hold a party, I make/hold a party
Perché è l'unico modo per fermare, per fermare, per fermare, ah
Because it's the only way to stop, to stop, to stop, ah
La noia
Boredom
La noia
Boredom
La noia
Boredom
La noia
Boredom
Muoio perché morire rende i giorni più umani
I die because dying makes days more human
Vivo perché soffrire fa le gioie più grandi
I live because suffering makes the joys look bigger
Non ci resta che ridere in queste notti bruciate
We cannot do anything but laugh in those burnt nights
Una corona di spine sarà il dress-code per la mia festa
A crown of thorns will be the dress-code for my party
Ah, è la cumbia della noia, mmh
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
The cumbia of boredom
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definitive
Ah, è la cumbia della noia
Ah, it's the cumbia of boredom
È la cumbia della noia
It's the cumbia of boredom
Total
definitive
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