Sanremo Music Festival
Il Festival della canzone italiana is called the great music competition in the Ligurian town of Sanremo.
The festival is held annually, usually in late February or early March. It is currently aired five nights from Tuesday to Saturday.
Voting is usually done by a panel of expert judges and a popular jury, which is spread over the whole country and in every evening new people of different ages sit.
History
Since 1951 the festival will take place (Festival di Sanremo 1951). It is the oldest music festival in Europe, older than the Euro Vision Song Contest (since 1956).
State television RAI transmits the festival for years on television. The first editions were broadcast on the radio.
The festival was one of the reasons for the almost complete abandonment of Italy to participate in the Euro Vision Song Contest since the mid- 1990s. Because of the great national importance of the Sanremo Festival, the interest in European competition was relatively low. Since 2011 Italy takes part again at the Euro Vision Song Contest; the winner of the Sanremo Festival 2011 in the category Newcomer, Raphael Gualazzi, was selected as a participant.
It occurs not only famous singers but also give new talent and international stars, while not participating in the competition, but the event a great reputation.
The festival was rarely visited by rock artists or cantautori. 1967 Singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco took his own life after he was eliminated in the semifinals of the festival. Musicians as Fabrizio de André and Francesco Guccini have denied the mainstream of the event ever since.
Internationally successful participants
Nowadays the Sanremo Festival has only one national importance in Italy. Previously - most obviously in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century - went from the festival numerous international hits out whose performers were international stars, such as
- Volare ( Nel blu di blu dipinto ) by Domenico Modugno (1958 )
- Piove ( Ciao, ciao bambina ) by Domenico Modugno
- Al di là by Betty Curtis (1961 )
- Tango Italiano Milva (1962 )
- Non ho l' eta Gigliola Cinquetti (1964 )
- Se piangi, se ridi by Bobby Solo ( 1965).
Participation of international stars in the 1960s
During the 1960s, as well as international stars were invited to participate in the festival. At that time it was customary that each song was sung by two artists with different orchestral arrangements. Thus the importance of the festival should be emphasized as a composer rather than a singing competition. This procedure made it possible that many contributions were presented both by an Italian Star and from a foreign guest artists.
It took a number of foreign stars in the contest:
- Frankie Laine - 1964 Una lacrima sul viso with, 2nd place in the finals ( Team Partners of Bobby Solo)
- Peter Kraus - 1964 Piccolo Piccolo only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals ( Team Partners of Emilio Pericoli )
- Peggy March - 1964 Passo su passo only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals ( team partner of Claudio Villa )
- Connie Francis - 1965 Ho bisogno di vederti, 5th place in the finals (Team Partner of Gigliola Cinquetti ) and 1967 Canta ragazzina, only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals (Team Partner of Bobby Solo)
- Petula Clark - 1965 invece no, 6th place in the final ( team partner of Betty Curtis)
- Udo Jürgens - 1965 Abracciami forte, 2nd place in the finals ( Team Partners of Ornella Vanoni ) and 1968 with Per vivere, only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals ( Team Partners of Iva Zanicchi )
- Dusty Springfield - 1965 Tu che ne sai, only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals (Team Partner of Fabrizio Ferretti ) and with di fronte all ' amore, also only preliminary round for the finals qualify ( team partner of Gianni Mascolo )
- Gene Pitney - 1965 Amici miei with, 3rd place in the finals ( Team Partners of Nicola di Bari); 1966 Nessuno mi può giudicare, 2nd place in the finals ( Team Partners of Caterina Caselli ) and 1967 with La rivoluzione, ranked 14th in the final ( team partner of Gianni Pettinati ) and with Guardati all spalle, only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals ( Team Partners of Nicola Di Bari)
- Françoise Hardy - 1966 Parlami di te, 14th place in the finals (Team Partner of Edoardo Vianello )
- Dalida - 1967 Ciao, amore ciao, only preliminary round, does not qualify for the final ( team partner of Luigi Tenco )
- Cher - 1967 Ma piano (by non svegliarti ), only preliminary round, not qualified for the finals (Team Partner of Nico Fidenco )
- Dionne Warwick - 1967 Dedicato all ' amore, only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals (Team Partner of Peppino di Capri ) and La voce del silenzio 1968, 14th place in the finals (Team Partner of Tony Del Monaco). Warwick's participation was already provided with the titles, which were later sung by Dusty Springfield, for 1965, but said Warwick their participation at short notice again.
- Louis Armstrong - 1968 Mi va di cantare, 13th place in the finals ( Team Partners of Lara Saint Paul )
- Paul Anka - 1968 La Farfalla impazzita, written by Mogol and Lucio Battisti only preliminaries, not qualified for the finals ( Team Partners of Johnny Dorelli )
- France Gall - 1969 with La pioggia, 6th place in the final of (Team Partner of Gigliola Cinquetti )
Presentation
Every year traded different names for the presentation of the festival, but the choice often falls on presenters who have taken on this task previously: Pippo Baudo leads the statistics with 13 presentations, before Mike Bongiorno with 11 inserts a distant second behind, Nunzio Filogamo with 5 presentations. Pippo Baudo hosted in 2007 the most successful of the ratings fro Festival together with Michelle Hunziker.
Winner
Most wins, four, won Claudio Villa and Domenico Modugno. The singer with the most wins is Iva Zanicchi (three).
- 2005: Francesco Renga - Angelo
- 2006: Povia - Vorrei avere il Becco
- 2007: Simone Cristicchi - Ti regalerò una rosa
- 2008: Giò Di Tonno & Lola Ponce - Colpo di fulmine
- 2009: Marco Carta - La forza mia
- 2010: Valerio Scanu - Per tutte le volte che ...
- 2011: Roberto Vecchioni - Chiamami ancora amore
- 2012: Emma Marrone - Non è l' inferno
- 2013: Marco Mengoni - L' essenziale
- 2014: Arisa - Controvento