ITALY: HERE ARE THE ONES FOR SANREMO 2018 (AND EUROVISION)

Tonight's the night. During Sará Sanremo live show on Raiuno the 20 Big ones will be announced, as well as the two Newcomers chosen by a jury among the eight AreaSanremo finalistss but the main plate is the live final of Sarà Sanremo newcomers. Sixteen of them will be fighting for the six places in the festival's Nuove proposte final.

This blogger will be watching live and updating as we go:

The 20 Big:

Roby Facchinetti & Riccardo Fogli - Il segreto del tempo
Nina Zilli - Senza appartanere
The Kolors - Frida
Diodato & Roy Paci - Adesso
Mario Biondi - Rivederti
Luca Barbarossa - Passame er sale
Lo Stato Sociale - Una vita in vacanza
Annalisa - Il mondo prima di te
Giovanni Caccamo - Eterno
Enzo Avitabile & Peppe Servillo - Il coraggio di ogni giorno
Ornella Vanoni, Bungaro & Pacifico - Imparare ad amarsi
Renzo Rubino - Custodire
Noemi - Non smettere mai di cercarmi
Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - Non mi avete fatto niente
Le Vibrazioni - Cosi sbagliato
Ron - Almeno pensami
Max Gazzé - La leggenda di Cristalda e Pizzomunno
Decibel - Fuori dal tempo
Red Canzian - Ognuno ha il suo racconto
Elio e le Storie Tese - Arrivederci

The two AreaSanremo chosen ones (click titles for videos):

Martina Attili - Un incubo ogni giorno

Alice Caioli - Specchi rotti

Diego Esposito - Voglio stare con te

Manuel Foresta - Vivo davvero

Andrea Maestrelli - Non è vero

Leonardo Monteiro - Bianca

Giorgia Pino - Cose cosi

Daniele Ronda - Un'altra bugia

The six Sarà Sanremo chosen ones (click titles for videos):
There's a three way jury: five members in the jury (30%), televote (40%) and expert jury (30%).
In the first round they perform in groups of four: two in, two out.

Santiago - Nessuno (studio jury 1 vote)
Lorenzo Baglioni - Il congiuntivo (studio jury 4 votes)
Nyvinne - Spreco personale (studio jury 5 votes)
Dave Monaco - L'eternità é di chi sa volare (studio jury 0 votes)

Mirkoeilcane - Stiamo tutti bene (studio jury 3 votes)
Luchi - Gli amori della mente (studio jury 2 votes)
Eva - Cosa ti salverà (studio jury 5 votes)
Iosonoaria - Un cerchio (studio jury 0 votes)

Giulia Casieri - Come stai (studio jury 5 votes)
Davide Petrella - Non può fare male (studio jury 3 votes)
Jose Nunes - Parlami ancora (studio jury 0 votes)
Antonia Laganà - Parli (studio jury 2 votes)

Mudimbi - Il mago (studio jury 5 votes)
Carol Beria - Nessuna lacrima (studio jury 0 votes)
Ultimo - Il ballo delle incertezze (studio jury 5 votes)
Aprile & Mangiarancina - Quell'attimo di eternità (studio jury 0 votes)

The eight were then revoted and two were kicked out:

Antonia Laganà
Nyvinne

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