Sanremo: Amadeus, here are the 22 Big of the festival

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 31 - Achille Lauro, Alberto Urso, Anastasio, Bugo and Morgan, Diodato, Elodie, Enrico Nigiotti, Francesco Gabbani, Giordana Angi, Irene Grandi, Le Vibrazioni, Levante, Elettra Lamborghini, Marco Masini, Michele Zarrillo , Junior Cally, Paolo Jannacci, Piero Pelù, I pinguini tacticinucleari, Rancore, Raphael Gualazzi, Riki: here are the names of the 22 singers competing in Sanremo. After days of "fibrillation" and anticipations to announce them is Amadeus himself in an interview with Repubblica in which he underlines that his will be a "freestyle" festival. "I said right away - he explains - that it would have been a Sanremo characterized by unpredictability, each evening must be different from the other".
To those who ask him if he has been pressured, Amadeus says: "Sanremo is like a wild horse but I am the son of a riding instructor, I agree to be riding these conditions, the festival is too fascinating. But don't say that I immediately put pressure: I don't know not even which record companies were the 22 singers I chose from the over two hundred I listened to ". I had no ulterior motives, I do what you think about the record market. And again: "I didn't look at anyone, I didn't even know some of them".
Among the names chosen, many rappers and artists of the talents, not from "classic soft Sanremo piece" but "songs to download on Spotify": "They are sweet and romantic songs but they have rhythmic chains," says Amadeus.
"On January 6th - he says - they will all be guests of the Rai1 I Soliti Ignoti - Lottery Italy special and will announce the titles of the songs to them". (HANDLE).