Italy and RAI is almost certain to participate in Copenhagen 2014 and it's good to remember it's also 50 years since Denmark hosted its first Eurovision in Copenhagen, won by Italy. Could they do it again? Certainly they have a lot of singers who could cross over and appeal to European audiences. RAI, despite not confirming their participation (but that comes as no surprise as it may happen again only once EBU publishes the official list) nor have they hinted how the song and/or the singer will be selected. Similar poll was launched last year, yet the singer came from Sanremo festival as the previous year's after their comeback, and this time it was the winner of it, L'essenziale by Marco Mengoni.
This poll also underlines the problem with these online polls; it is the fans of certain singers flooding it as the top names in it are all singers from reality series Amici with strong online fanbese: Emma, Annalisa, Alessandra Amoroso, Marco Carta and yes, even Marco Mengoni hits the top-5 at this point!
Other previous Eurovision entrants Nina Zilli, Raphael Gualazzi and Franco Battiato included in RAI's list are not making any impact, nor the big international names Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Zucchero, Andrea Bocelli, Gianna Nannini and Tiziano Ferro....
However if you ask this blogger, I'd go hunting among Elisa (she sings both in Italian and English, has on going international career and Caterina Caselli behind her), Arisa (a fan favorite and an artist with personal style plus great songs), Biagio Antonacci (a real veteran who could deliver a great song with atmosphere if he goes for one of his ballads), Dolcenera (a gay friendly artist with great personality and a voice that won't go unnoticed) or most of all Giorgia, my one big wish for Eurovision since forever.... At least Elisa, Dolcenera and Giorgia are at the moment recording/releasing new albums, not sure about the others. Elisa and Giorgia have also won Sanremo when RAI wasn't participating in Eurovision so they should be rewarded with that extra bonus finally, Arisa has been propably considered these past three years and even Dolcenera is a Sanremo winner, among the newcomers though. And Antonacci simply is a megastar.
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