ITALY: HERE ARE THE 20 SANREMO GIOVANI AND THEIR SONGS

The jury has spoken and the 20 chosen ones are out. Only three female voices made it (and two of them are back from last year!). This blogger is pleased to see Raimondo Cataldo aka Raim is back and made it through. The televised selections start on November 16 until December 7 and only ten of them will make it to the grand final on December 19 wherefrom five will make it to the festival in February 2020. You can listen to the songs here

The semi-finals were done in duels which is just about the most unfair game to play and pretty much all favorites of mine (or in general) were kicked out by the televoting teenagers..... I suppose.

Ainè (Arnaldo Santoro, 28) - Van Gogh eliminated
Marco Sentieri (Pasquale Mennillo, 34) - Billy Blu - finalist

Fadi (Thomas Olowarotimi Fadimiluyi, 31) - Due noi - finalist
Raim (Raimondo Cataldo, 28) - Labirinto - eliminated

Fasma (Tiberio Fazioli, 23) - Per sentirmi vivo - finalist

Federica Abbate (28) - I sogni prima di dormire - eliminated

Leo Gassman (21) - Va bene cosi - finalist
Samuel Pietrasanta (27) - E dove sarai tu - eliminated

Nova (Davide Ferlito, 24) - Resta - eliminated

Thomas (Thomas Bocchimpani, 19) - Ne 80 -finalist

Giulia Mutti (26) - Romanzo cattivo eliminated

Jefeo (Fabio Migliano, 19) - Un due tre stella finalist

Libero (Libero Proietto, 29) - La casa del vento eliminated

Réclame - Il viaggio di ritorno finalist

(Marco Fiore 23, Riccardo Roia 20, Edoardo Roia 22, Gabriele Roia 27)

Shari (Shari Noioso, 17) - Stella finalist
*Simona Severini - Una cosa bella eliminated

Avincola (Simone Avincola, 32) - Un rider finalist
Arezzo (Domenico Arezzo, 21) - Volo eliminated

Mike Baker (Michele Sechi, 21) - Stupido eliminated
Eugenio in Via di Gioia - Tsunami finalist

(Eugenio Cesaro 28, Emanuele Via 27, Paolo Di Gioia 28, Lorenzo Federici 32)

Devil A (Angelo Autorino, 21) - Disordine withdrawn*

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