Sanremo 2009 was rather simple affair with two categories, Artists and proposals (instead of the old Big and Newcomers). The 16 Artists were chosen from 104 applications, and the 8 Proposals from 146. Along the festival on stage sanremofestival.59 was conducted in internet with 470 applications, amongst them Miodio who reached the final stage with Evoluzione genetica. Other previous winner or Eurovision artists were Alexia, Albano, Marco Masini, Fausto Leali and Francesco Renga. Iva Zanicchi was eliminated the first night. Albano and Sal da Vinci were eliminated the second night but were granted wildcards on the third.
In the end only the top-3 was announced and Sal Da Vinci with Non riesco a farti innamorare came third, Povia with Luca era gay second (so, for the second year running a gay themed song came second!) and Marco Carta won with La forza mia. He is one of the youngest winners ever and comes from a Idols like reality show Amici that he won in 2007. He got over 57% of the televotes.
Could have been a good entry for Eurovision but then think again - this is very similar in style to Paolo Meneguzzi's effort for Switzerland in genre and we all remember how well that did so.... Other songs worth mentioning were from Gemelli Diversi, Dolcenera and Afterhours. The Proposals category was maybe more interesting, won by Arisa and Sinceritá. Only the winner was announced but Malika Ayane, Karima, Simona Molinari, Chiara Canzian and Zucchero's daughter Irene are worth mentioning.
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