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, that this year will see no public in the theater, will start on tuesday March 2nd at 8:30 pm (it’ll probably have a 5 minutes “anteprima = preview” every night), and end on saturday March 6th, when the final will be broadcasted.
/ Official website / you can find loads of videos and interviews here + the latest news.
Rai’s website dedicated section (here) | youtube playlist
A few minutes show about Sanremo has been broadcasted from saturday February 27th at 8:30 PM to monday March 1st, with interviews and random curiosities (here - PrimaFestival section right below the host Amadeus’ photo. this year it willbe hosted by Giovanna Civitillo -host, dancer, Amadeus’ wife-, Valeria Graci -host/comedian-, Giovanni Vernia -host, comedian-)
I’m not sure if or where the usual Dopofestival, with the analysis of the show at the end of each night, will be broadcasted (here you can find last year program L’Altro Festival)
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 #sanremo71
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) I’m not sure you have to log in to watch a live, but it’s through just an email or FB btw. You can use an Italian VPN line if the website blocked in your country.
Sanremo LIS (only live) | All this year’s songs LIS (rewatch)
I’ll try to write down some more infos/links through the week.
--> It seems geoblock has been removed for Sanremo this year!
Hosts & Guests + Other Stuff
This years’ host will be Amadeus (who choose the songs taking part into this Sanremo), a TV and radio host. He will be accompanied by Fiorello, another famous Italian host, and probably, as last year, by a different co-host woman each night: Matilda De Angelis (actress, 1st night), Elodie (singer, 2nd night), Vittoria Ceretti (model, 3rd night), Barbara Palombelli (host/writer, 4th night). On saturday, there might be different co-hosts women. Each night, Achille Lauro (singer, last year Sanremo partecipant) will go on stage and perform. Also the football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic (one night accompanied by coach and former football player Sinisa Mihailovic) will be there every night or so.
Some of the one-night guests might be the singers Negramaro, Alessandra Amoroso, Il Volo (on wednesday’s night, they will honor Ennio Morricone), Loredana Bertè, Mahmood (friday’s night), Ornella Vanoni and Francesco Gabbani’s duet (on saturday); sport champions as Alex Schwazer (walker, who will tell his story - he’s been wrongly accused of doping) and Alberto Tomba + Federica Pellegrini (former sky champion and actual swimming champion, on saturday’s night will promote the 2026 Winter OG taking place in Milano and Cortina).
There will be 26 singers in the Campioni (champs) section and 8 in the Giovani (young/newbies) section. The winner of the competition of the Campioni section will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest: if he/she/them won’t accept, the choice will be another artist, usually the 2nd classified.
On the 3rd night, there will be the usual duets night. The Campioni’s singers will perform (with another Italian or foreign artist) a song from the Italian folk/song writer’s collection. As last year, the rank at the end of the 3rd night, will change also the rank after the 2 first nights (votes will be added to the general rank).
Day 1 - co-hosts: Matilda De Angelis, Fiorello.
Guests: Achille Lauro, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Loredana Bertè, Alessia Bonari (nurse), Italian Police Marching Band with the saxophonist Stefano Di Battista, Russian gymnast Olg’a Kapranova
We’ll listen to 13 Campioni’s songs (in order of performance: Arisa, Colapesce e Di Martino, Aiello, Francesca Michielin e Fedez, Max Gazzè, Irama, Madame, Maneskin, Ghemon, Coma_Cose, Annalisa, Francesco Renga, Fasma) and 4 Giovani’s (Gaudiano, Elena Faggi, Avincola, Folcast).
The first two Giovani’s songs classified (Folcast, Gaudiano) will pass to friday’s night’s final.
We have a first rank of the 13 Campioni who performed tonight:
Day 2 - co-hosts: Elodie, Fiorello
Prob. guests: singers: Achille Lauro, Laura Pausini, Il Volo, Gigliola Cinquetti, Marcella Bella, Fausto Leali, Enzo Avitabile (saxophonist) and Alex Schwazer (walker).
The remaining 13 Campioni’s (in order of performance: Orietta Berti, Bugo, Gaia, Lo Stato Sociale, La rappresentante di lista, Malika Ayane, Extraliscio, Ermal Meta, Random, Fulminacci, Willie Peyote, Gio Evan, Irama) and 4 Giovani’s songs (Wrongonyou, Greta Zuccoli, Davide Shorty, Dellai) will be performed tonight.
The first two Giovani’s songs classified (Wrongonyou, DavideShorty) will pass to friday’s night’s final.
We’ll have another rank of the 13 Campioni who performed tonight, and then one with all the 26 contestants (a mix with day 1′s rank).
**Irama will not take part because of Covid positivity among his staff (he’s negative but he has to be quarantined anyway). Amadeus decided to show the recorded clip of his performance.
Complete rank of the Campioni after 1 play:
1) Ermal Meta
2) Annalisa
3) Irama
4) Malika Ayane
5) Noemi
6) Fasma
7) Francesca Michielin e Fedez
8) Lo Stato Sociale
9) Willie Peyote
10) Francesco Renga
11) Arisa
12) Gaia
13) Fulminacci
14) La Rappresentante di Lista
15) Maneskin
16) Max Gazzè
17) Colapesce Dimartino
18) Coma_Cose
19) Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo
20) Madame
21) Gio Evan
22) Orietta Berti
23) Random
24) Bugo
25) Ghemon
26) Aiello
Day 3 - co-hosts: Vittoria Ceretti, Fiorello
Prob. guests: Achillee Lauro, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Monica Guerritore (actress), Emma Marrone (singer), Negramaro (will pay homage to the great Italian singer Lucio Dalla after 9 years from his death).
All the 26 Campioni singers will perform a “duet” song with guests (or not) from the folk collection. In order of performance:
Noemi - "Prima di andare via" (Neffa) con Neffa
Fulminacci - "Penso positivo" (Jovanotti) con Valerio Lundini e Roy Paci
Francesco Renga - "Una ragione di più" (Ornella Vanoni) con Casadilego
Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo - Medley "Rosamunda" (Gabriella Ferri) con Peter Pichler
Fasma - "La fine" (Nesli) con Nesli
Bugo - "Un’avventura" (Lucio Battisti) con i Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
Francesca Michielin e Fedez - Medley (Calcutta – "Del verde", Daniele Silvestri – "Le cose che abbiamo in comune", Jalisse - "Fiumi di parole", "Non amarmi" - Aleandro Baldi e Francesca Alotta, "Felicità" - Al Bano e Romina Power)
Irama - "Cyrano" (Francesco Guccini)
Maneskin - "Amandoti" (Cccp Di Giovanni Lindo Ferretti) con Manuel Agnelli
Random - "Ragazzo fortunato" (Jovanotti) con i The Kolors
Willie Peyote - "Giudizi universali" (Samuele Bersani) con Samuele Bersani
Orietta Berti - "Io che amo solo te" (Sergio Endrigo) con Le Deva
Gio Evan - "Gli anni" (883) con i cantanti di The Voice Senior
Ghemon - Medley "Le ragazze", "Donne", "Acqua e sapone", "La canzone del sole" con i Neri Per Caso
La Rappresentante di Lista - "Splendido splendente" (Donatella Rettore) con Donatella Rettore
Arisa - "Quando" (Pino Daniele) con Michele Bravi
Madame - "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (Adriano Celentano)
Annalisa - "La musica è finita" (Ornella Vanoni) con Federico Poggipollini
Lo Stato Sociale - "Non è per sempre" (Afterhours) con Emanuela Fanelli e Francesco Pannofino
Gaia - "Mi sono innamorato di te" (Luigi Tenco) con Lous And The Yakuza
Colapesce e Dimartino - "Povera patria" (Franco Battiato)
Coma_Cose - "Il mio canto libero" (Lucio Battisti) con Alberto Radius e Mamakass
Max Gazzè - "Del mondo" (Csi Di Giovanni Lindo Ferretti) con Daniele Silvestri e The Magical Mistery Band
Malika Ayane - "Insieme a te non ci sto più" (Caterina Caselli)
Ermal Meta - "Caruso" (Lucio Dalla) con Napoli Mandolin Orchestra
Aiello - "Gianna" (Rino Gaetano) con Vegas Jones
Tonight’s Classification:
1 Ermal Meta – Caruso
2 Orietta Berti – Io che amo solo te
3 Extraliscio con Davide Toffolo – Medley Rosamunda
4 Willie Peyote – Giudizi universali
5 Arisa – Quando
6 Maneskin – Amandoti
7 Annalisa – La musica è finito
8 Max Gazzè – Del mondo
9 La rappresentante di lista – Splendido splendente
10 Ghemon – L’essere infinito
11 Lo stato sociale – Non è per sempre
12 Gaia – Mi sono innamorato di te
13 Irama – Cyrano
14 Colapesce – Dimartino – Povera patria
15 Fulminacci – Penso positivo
16 Malika Ayane – Insieme a te non ci sto più
17 Noemi – Prima di andare via
18 Madame – Prisencolinensinainciusol
19 Francesco Renga – Una ragione di più
20 Fasma – La fine
21 Francesca Michielin e Fede – E allora felicità
22 Aiello – Gianna
23 Bugo – Un’avventura
24 Gio Evan – Gli anni
25 Random – Ragazzo fortunato
26 Coma_Cose – Il mio canto libero
Top 10 classification after tonight:
1) Ermal Meta
2) Annalisa
3) Willie Peyote
4) Arisa
5) Irama
6) Lo Stato Sociale
7) Malika Ayane
8) Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo
9) Orietta Berti
10) Maneskin
Day 4 - co-hosts: Barbara Palombelli, Fiorello, Beatrice Venezi (orchestra maestro)
Prob. guests: Achille Lauro, Mahmood, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Matilde Gioli and Alessandra Amoroso.
The 26 Campioni’s songs will be performed (in order of appearance: Annalisa, Aiello, Maneskin,, Noemi, Orietta Berti, Colapesce Dimartino, Max Gazzé, Willie Peyote, Malika Ayane, La rappresentante di lista, Madame, Arisa, Coma Cose, Fasma, Lo Stato Sociale, Francesca Michielin e Fedez, Irama, Extraliscio feat Davide Toffolo, Francesco Renga, Gio Evan, Ermal Meta, Bugo, Fulminacci, Gaia, Random). Also, the 4 Giovani’s songs that won on day 1 and 2 (Davide Shorty, Folcast, Gaudiano, Wrongonyou), will be performed and the 1st classified will be the Giovani’s section winner of the 71 (70+1)° Sanremo’s edition.
GAUDIANO is the winner of the Giovani’s section
The Premio della Critica “Mia Martini” for the Giovani’s section to WRONGONYOU
General ranking of the 26 Campioni’s songs after tonight:
1. Ermal Meta - "Un milione di cose da dirti"
2. Willie Peyote - "Mai dire mai (La locura)"
3. Arisa - "Potevi fare di più"
4. Annalisa - "Dieci"
5. Maneskin - "Zitti e buoni"
6. Irama - "La genesi del tuo colore"
7. La Rappresentante di Lista - "Amare"
8. Colapesce e Dimartino - "Musica leggerissima"
9. Malika Ayane - "Ti piaci così"
10. Noemi - "Glicine"
11. Lo Stato Sociale - "Combat Pop"
12. Orietta Berti - "Quando ti sei innamorato"
13. Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo - "Bianca luce nera"
14. Max Gazzè e Trifluoperazina Monstery Band - "Il farmacista"
15. Fulminacci - "Santa Marinella"
16. Gaia – "Cuore amaro"
17. Francesca Michielin e Fedez - "Chiamami per nome"
18. Madame - "Voce"
19. Fasma - "Parlami"
20. Ghemon - "Momento perfetto"
21. Francesco Renga - "Quando trovo te"
22. Coma_Cose - "Fiamme negli occhi"
23. Gio Evan - "Arnica"
24. Bugo - "E invece sì"
25. Random - "Torno a te"
26. Aiello - "Ora"
Day 5 - co-hosts: Fiorello, Giovanna Botteri (reporter), Tecla Insolia and Serena Rossi (actresses).
Prob. guests: Achille Lauro, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ornella Vanoni & Francesco Gabbani (singers - new song together), Riccardo Fogli with Michele Zarrillo and Paolo Vallesi (singers), Umberto Tozzi (singer) and Dardust (musician, producer...). Sports people: Alberto Tomba and Federica Pellegrini.
All the 26 Campioni singers will perform again their songs (in order of appearance: Ghemon, Gaia, Irama, Gio Evan, Ermal Meta, Fulminacci, Francesco Renga, Extraliscio ft. Davide Toffolo, Colapesce e Dimartino, Malika Ayane, Fedez e Francesca Michielin, Willie Peyote, Orietta Berti, Arisa, Bugo, Maneskin, Madame, La Rappresentante di Lista, Annalisa, Come Cose, Lo Stato Sociale, Random, Max Gazzè, Noemi, Fasma, Aiello) and after midnight (prob. more like after 2 am.) we’ll know the competition’s first 3 classified and all the special awards winners. the first 3 classified will perform again and get new votes to decide the final standings. The winner will go to the ESC2021 (if there will be).
MANESKIN won the 71st Sanremo!
2. Francesca Michielin e Fedez
11. La Rappresentante di Lista
12. Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo
MANESKIN will take part at the ESC 2021!
Other Awards:
-premio della Critica Mia Martini: Willie Peyote
-premio Sala Stampa Lucio Dalla: Colapesce e Dimartino
-premio Sergio Bardotti per il miglior testo: Madame
-premio Giancarlo Bigazzi per la miglior composizione musicale: Ermal Meta
Campioni Section (+ lyrics):
Annalisa - "Dieci" (video)
Arisa - "Potevi fare di più" (video)
Bugo - "E invece sì" (video)
Colapesce e Dimartino - "Musica leggerissima" (video)
Coma_Cose – "Fiamme negli occhi" (video)
Ermal Meta - "Un milione di cose da dirti" (video)
Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo - "Bianca luce nera" (video)
Fasma - "Parlami" (video)
Francesca Michielin e Fedez - "Chiamami per nome" (video)
Francesco Renga - "Quando trovo te" (video)
Fulminacci - "Santa Marinella" (video)
Gaia – "Cuore amaro" (video)
Ghemon - "Momento perfetto" (video)
Gio Evan - "Arnica" (video)
Irama - "La genesi del tuo colore" (video)
La Rappresentante di Lista - "Amare" (video)
Lo Stato Sociale - "Combat Pop" (video)
Malika Ayane - "Ti piaci così" (video)
Maneskin - "Zitti e buoni" (video)
Max Gazzè e Trifluoperazina Monstery Band - "Il farmacista" (video)
Noemi - "Glicine" (video)
Orietta Berti - "Quando ti sei innamorato" (video)
Random - "Torno a te" (video)
Willie Peyote - "Mai dire mai (La locura)" (video)
Elena Faggi - "Che ne so" (video)
Fratelli Dellai - "Io sono Luca" (video)
Gaudiano - "Polvere da sparo" (video)
Folcast - "Scopriti" (video)
Greta Zuccoli - "Ogni cosa sa di te" (video)
Davide Shorty - "Regina" (video)
Wrongonyou - "Lezioni di volo" (video)
Avincola - "Goal!" (video)
