The winner of the Sanremo competition will represent Italy at Eurovision 2023
Italy’s biggest and most popular music event kicks off today with five straight nights of competition. The Sanremo Music Festival, held annually at the Ariston theater in the northern city of Sanremo, located in the Liguria region, will be held between February 7-11. The music competition is an opportunity for Italian artists to showcase new, unreleased songs, all of which are sung in Italian or Italian dialect. The competition dates back to 1951, making this year its 73rd edition. The Black Eyed Peas will be a special musical guest on February 8.
The winner of the competition will be given the chance to represent Italy at Eurovision 2023, which will be held in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Italy has won Eurovision three times with Gigliola Cinquetti in 1964; Toto Cutugno in 1990; and Maneskin in 2021. Mahmood and Blanco represented Italy in 2022 and placed sixth for their entry “Brividi” (Goosebumps.)
Take a look below at the 28 artists and the songs they will be performing at the 2023 Sanremo Music Festival.
The full Sanremo festival lineup
- Giorgia – Parole Dette Male
- Articolo 31 – Un Bel Viaggio
- Elodie – Due
- Colapesce e Dimartino – Splash
- Ariete – Un Mare Di Guai
- Modà – Lasciami
- Mara Sattei – Duemila Minuti
- Leo Gassmann – Terzo Cuore
- I Cugini di Campagna – Lettera 22
- Mr. Rain – Supereroi
- Marco Mengoni – Due Vite
- Anna Oxa – Sali (Canto Dell’ Anima)
- Lazza – Cenere
- Tananai – Tango
- Paola e Chiara – Furore
- LDA – Se Poi Domani
- Madame – Il Bene Nel Male
- Gianluca Grignani – Quando Ti Manca Il Fiato
- Rosa Chemical – Made In Italy
- Coma_Cose – L’Addio
Asia London Palomba
Asia London Palomba is a trilingual freelance journalist from Rome, Italy. In the past, her work on culture, travel, and history has been published in The Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura,The Christian Science Monitor and Grub Street, New York Magazine's food section. In her free time, Asia enjoys traveling home to Italy to spend time with family and friends, drinking Hugo Spritzes, and making her nonna's homemade cavatelli.