Fellow Eurovision website Eurovoix have been running their Eurojury over the last couple of weeks. The Eurojury is one of many fan votes votes that takes place prior to the contest. This year’s Eurojury has been won by Italy’s Angelina Mango with her song “La Noia”.
About Eurojury 2024
Eurojury is determined very much like the Eurovision Song Contest itself. Eurovoix get past names of Eurovision, as well music and entertainment professionals from countries competing in Eurovision. This makes up the jury vote of Eurojury. The site also runs an online vote – which acts as the televote.
While Angelina won the vote overall, Croatia’s Baby Lasagna won the online vote with 190 points. Slimane from France won the jury vote with 295 points.
Who is Angelina Mango?
Born into a musical family as the daughter of singers Matia Bazar and Giuseppe Mango, Angelina has been performing since her early youth both as a singer and dancer. At the age of 10, she was a backing vocalist on her father’s cover of Starlight on his final album La Terra degli aquiloni.
Her dad passed away in 2014, and she would go on to perform an orchestral rearrangement of his song “La Rondine” on Sanremo Covers Night, receiving a standing ovation.
Angelina started releasing music in 2020 with “Va tutto bene” being her first single. She would release a debut EP, called “Monolocale” the following year and perform at Milan Music Week and in the selections for Sanremo Giovani.
In 2023 she released the song “Ci pensiamo domani” which has since been certified as quadruple platinum in Italy with over 400,000 certified sales.
Her Eurovision Song “La Noia” was written by Angelina alongside Madame and Dardust, who also produced the track. Te song will feature on her debut album “Poké melodrama” which will be released on 31 May.
Italy’s Eurovision Journey
Italy have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since the very beginning and have always been considered a powerhouse in the contest. Italy have won the contest on three occasions in 1964, 1990 and 2021. Italy withdrew after 1997, returning again in 2011 with Raphael Gualazzi who sang ‘Madness Of Love’. Raphael placed second in the 2011 Eurovison Song Contest after scoring 189 points.
Italy’s most recent entry in 2023 was “Due Vite” by Marco Mengoni. At the close of voting, Italy scored a total of 350 points in the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final, placing 4th. Of these, 176 points came from the juries, whilst the remaining 174 points came from the televote.
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News Source: Eurovoix
Photo Credit: Andrea Bianchera
Rory Gannon