Another important piece of the next Sanremo festival has fallen into place.
Six were missing from the call to complete the cast of 28 artists competing at the Ariston: the best of the 12 finalists of Sanremo Giovani who battled it out tonight, live on Rai1.
The following prevailed and won a place at the Ariston from 7 to 11 February: Shari, Colla Zio, gIANMARIA (who won the evening with La città che odi), Sethu, Will, OLLY.
Despite the competition, the real protagonists of the evening were the already announced 22 Bigs, who passed - all, none excluded - from the Casino of the Ligurian town to present to the public the title of the song they will bring to the competition.
And there were some surprises among the authors of some songs: Damiano David of Maneskin wrote Duemilaminuti for the debutant Mara Sattei, Riccardo Zanotti of Pinguini Tattici Nucleari signs Third Heart the piece by Leo Gassmann (who returns to the festival after the victory among the New Proposals in 2020), for the Cugini di Campagna (who in honor of their first time at the festival improvised an a cappella choir, and didn't spare a dig at the Maneskin after the controversy some time ago about the copied look) there is instead The List Representative who composed for the historic group Lettera 22.
Ultimo has chosen Alba, Tananai instead of Tango, Madame is looking for Good in Evil.
Bad words for Giorgia, Superheroes for Mr. Rain and Two for Elodie.
Sanremo 2023 marks great returns such as that of Gianluca Grignani (When you miss your breath), of the winner of ten years ago Marco Mengoni (Two lives), of Modà (Leave me), of the most famous sisters of Italian music Paola and Chiara (Furore) , of the Article 31 (Un bel viaggio) and of the artist with the most appearances at the Anna Oxa festival with Sali (Song of the soul).
Many young people, who however already have a leading role in the discography: Lazza with Cenere, Ariete with Sea of trouble, LDA with If then tomorrow, Rosa Chemical with Made in Italy.
Colapesce Dimartino, after the success of Musica Leggerissima they try again with Splash, Levante with Vivo and Coma_Cose, which two years ago had success with Fiamme negli occhi, with L'addio.
The festive evening was opened by Amadeus and Gianni Morandi, who will be co-host in February, in memory of Sinisa Mihajlovic, who passed away today, to whom the episode was dedicated.
"For us and for millions of people today is a sad day for the passing of a friend, a great man, a champion, a coach, a great person," said Amadeus.
"We dedicate the episode to him, who has always invested a lot in young people", he added, also recalling his participation as a guest on the Ariston stage in 2021. "I thought he would win this battle. Today I was really sick", he said moved Gianni Morandi.
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