"A great opportunity to approach an international audience, it will take us ten years of experience".
Achille Lauro, super-favorite on the eve and also on pole for bookmakers, happily comments, but not surprised, the victory at the first edition of 'Una Voce per San Marino', open to all singers "without restrictions on citizenship and language of the song. ", which brings him by right to the Eurovision Song Contest scheduled in Turin from 10 to 14 May: he will 'challenge' the 'Shivers' of Mahmood and Blanco, winners of Sanremo, where Lauro with 'Domenica' stopped at 14 / at location.
"We are friends", he says, glossing over the controversy via social media that accuse him of being 'smart' for having thus obtained participation in the ESC.
With a not insignificant aspect:
will be able to count on the preferences of the Italians, unlike the 'opponents', because the Eurovision regulation prevents voting for the artist competing for their own nation.
As well as Emma Muscat, who will represent Malta, where she was born, but she was launched by Maria De Filippi's 'Amici' and has a contract with Warner Music Italy.
On the stage of the Teatro Nuovo di Dogana, live on San Marino Rtv which organized the event together with Media Evolution and the Secretariat of State for Tourism, and in front of the jury chaired by Mogol and the maestro Peppe Vessicchio who attended the evening among the audience, Achille Lauro brought 'Stripper': "a punk rock song, perhaps, let's say, of a fairly indefinite genre like everything I've done in my career. A feminist piece, where there is
Pressure ').
Guests of honor Albano Carrisi, who re-proposed 'I cigni di Balaka', already the protagonist of a dispute for plagiarism with Michael Jackson, and 'We'll live it all again', with which he took part in the Eurovision in '76 together to Romina Power ("Next year - he anticipates - I want to celebrate my almost 80 years in Sanremo") and Mirko Casadei, for a tribute to his father Raoul almost a year after his death, after the outburst on Fb of his sister Mirna who had criticized the Sanremo Festival for not having remembered it even with a word or an applause.
Satisfied the Secretary of State Federico Pedini Amati: 'Una Voce per San Marino' was among the trend topics of Twitter and the Titan is now playing a thick card at the Eurovision Song Contest,
event relaunched in grand style also thanks to the Maneskin victory last year with 'Zitti e buona'.
"We believe in this project - says the minister - and we want to immediately start thinking about the next edition. San Marino has been spoken of too badly in the past years, we want it to be talked about in a positive key. We are a small but generous state, with a tourism that has many secrets to discover ".