Tag: Sanremo 2021

Festival di Sanermo is the biggest songs competition in Italy that has a tradition of over 60 years, and since the return of Italy to Eurovision, is also the contest that decides who will represent the country to Eurovision. Twenty-six singers - the so called "bigs" - will compete on the stage of the Sanremo Festival between 2nd and 6th March 2021 - still it not clear whether the competition will be only streamed and no audience will be allowed in the theatre or if it will be a "business as usual" event. It is a tradition now that the winner of this festival will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, even though we've had an exception so far, where Francesca Michielin - placed 2nd - represented Italy that year as the winners - which felt too old for such a competition - decid...