Italy took its well deserved third victory - finally! - at the Eurovision song contest 2021. Over the years several other Italian entries would have been worthy winners. In this series I will go through all of them from the worst ranking to the winners.
Marco Mengoni (32) won Sanremo and went on to the Eurovision with his winning entry L'essenziale and finished sadly only 7th out of 39, but all considered that was just the beginning of something huge coming up. That year Sanremo tried the two song for each artist method and the faith had it L'essenziale was the first song to be performed, and also the last. The other one was Bellissimo, eliminated in favor of this one. He had been up and coming since winning X Factor and even already placing 3rd in Sanremo but that festival showed a new Mengoni and when he performed Luigi Tenco's Ciao amore ciao on the cover night it sealed his faith.
Since then he has become a real superstar with a very loyal fanbase, an endless string of hits. Five out of his five stududio albums have been #1, as have 2 of his 4 live albums, he has 15 Top-10 hits, four of them #1. And he has just released a new single Cambia un uomo, that follows this summer's biggest hit in Italy, Ma stasera. A new album comes out in early December!
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