🇮🇹 Cover night songs for Sanremo 2022 announced

The build up to our host nation’s selection, Sanremo, is intensifying. Tonight, artistic director and host Amadeus has announced the songs that will be performed by each of the participants on the covers night of the contest!

All songs selected must have been originally released between the 1960s and 1990s, and could be either Italian or international songs. The competing artists may choose to perform the songs alone, or with a guest performer.

The Full List

Artist	Guest Performer	Cover Song	Originally Performed By
Achille Lauro	Loredana Beète	Sei belissima	Loredana Bèete
Aka 7even	Arisa	Cambiare	Alex Baroni
Ana Mena	Rocco Hunt	Medley	Multiple artists
Dargen D’Amico	–	La bambola	Patty Pravo
Ditonellapiaga feat. Donatella Rettore	–	Nessuno mi può giudicare	Caterina Caselli
Elisa	–	What A Feeling!	Irene Cara (From Flashdance)
Emma	Francesca Michielin	Baby One More Time	Britney Spears
Fabrizio Moro	–	Uomini soli	Pooh
Gianni Morandi	Mousse T	Medley	Multiple artists
Giovanni Truppi	Vinicio Capossela	Nella mia ora di libertà	Fabrizio De Andrè
Giusy Ferreri	Andy del Bluevertigo	Io vivrò senza te	Lucio Battisti
Highsnob & Hu	MrRain	Mi sono innamorato di te	Luigi Tenco
Irama	Gianluca Grigiani	La mia storia tra le dita	Gianluca Grigiani
Iva Zanicchi	–	Canzone	Don Becky and Detto Mariano, but in the style of Milva’s cover
La Rappresentante di Lista	Cosmo; Margherita Vicario; Ginevra	Be My Baby	The Ronettes
Le Vibrazioni	Sophie and the Giants; Peppe Vessicchio	Live And Let Die	Paul McCartey
Mahmood & Blanco	–	Il cielo in una stanza	Gino Paoli
Massimo Ranieri	Nek	Anna verrà	Pino Daniele
Matteo Romano	Malika Ayane	Your Song	Elton John
Michele Bravi	–	Io vorrei…non vorrei…ma se vuoi	Lucio Battisti
Noemi	–	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman	Aretha Franklin
Rkomi	Calibro 35	Medley	Vasco Rossi
Sangiovanni	Fiorella Mannoia	A muso duro	Pierangelo Bertolli
Tananai	Rose Chemical	A far l’amore comincia tu	Raffaella Carrà
Yuman	Rita Marcotulli	My Way	Frank Sinatra

The covers night will be the fourth night of the five-day contest, on Friday 4th February 2022. Points will be awarded by a press jury, a demoscopic (population-representative) jury and televote.

What else do we know about Sanremo 2022?

The 72nd Festival di Sanremo will take place between the 1st and 5th February 2022, returning to its regular slot after being delayed by a month last year due to pandemic restrictions. Amadeus returns as both host and artistic director, and will be joined on stage by Fiorello.

The five nights of the contest will be split as follows:

• On the first and second nights, 12 acts each will perform their entries, and will be scored by the press juries (one jury each for written press and TV, radio, and web press)
• On the third night, all 24 songs will be performed again, and will be scored by both a televote and a 1000-person demoscopic (population-representative) jury
• On the fourth night, all 24 competing artists will perform a cover of a song from the 60s, 70s or 80s (Italian or non-Italian, alone or with a guest performer); voting will use the same system as the first three nights
• On the fifth and final night, all 24 artists will perform their songs again, with televoting alone deciding on the top 3 acts. Following this, the press and demoscopic juries, and televote, will decide the winning song from the final three.

Sanremo is not a national final in the traditional sense – and in fact pre-dates and inspired the Eurovision we know and love today! This means that the winner will not automatically represent this year’s host nation in Turin, but will be given first refusal to do so. If they decline, the organisers of Sanremo will select the act who will compete as part of this year’s contest.

Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest

Reigning winners Italy has participated in the contest 46 times since it began in 1956. In addition to 2021, they also won in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti’s “Non ho l’eta” and in 1990 with Toto Cutugno’s “Insieme: 1992”.

Italy took an extended break from the contest from 1994 to 2011 (returning once in 1997). They became a member of the Big Five upon their return and have only missed the top 10 twice since. They finished second twice: in 2011 (with Raphael Gualazzi’s “Madness of Love”) and in 2019 (with Mahmood’s “Soldi”). Italy also notched third place in 2015 with Il Volo’s “Grande Amore”, which won the televote.

Perhaps the most iconic Italian Eurovision entry is Domenico Modugno’s “Nel blu, dipinto di blu” – better known as “Volare” – which placed third in 1958. It was a success in the American charts and won the first ever Grammy award for Song of the Year.

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News Source: RAI

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