The Sanremo soop opera has a new twist. Out of nowhere pops up Claudio Baglioni as the Artistic director, aka Björkman of the situation. This blogger among others had the confirmed idea Carlo Conti had accepted to be The One this year, too, but not to host it. Weird.
As for the hosts the names have been many and none have been confirmed, and while Rai apparently insisted still on Conti who has refuses all proposals. The latest idea seems to be a group of hosts, one or more for each night - all then uniting for the final night. If the edition will be a flop, no one's to blame but a shared guilt, so to speak.
One of the names now is Ludovia Comello who participated this year with Il cielo non mi basta, a pre-festival favorite for Eurofans - until we heard the song and her vocals.
Claudio Baglioni is one of the most succesful Italian singer-songwriters with sales over 55 million all over the world. A total of 35 album, 11 of them #1s. He has never participated in Sanremo as a singer but in 1985 he was on stage to pick up an award as Italians had voted his Questo piccolo grande amore as the Love song of the Century. In 2014 he was one of the Super Guests of the festival.
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