EUROVISION 2025 SAN MARINO: SAN MARINO SONG CONTEST 2025

Una voce per San Marino no more, it's San Marino song contest now. Also the original final date of February 22 has been postponed to March 8, 2025 with semi-final from 13th to 15th of February 2025. And behind all that a new deal with Italian broadcaster Rai that is the Big brother of SMRTV. And... the final was deemed too close to that of Sanremo so will that suggest there will be chances some Sanremo entries end up in San Marino Song contest line up like Loredana Bertè did last year? Time will tell....

The season started as usual with the endless selections and auditions rounds already in September. The submissions came from all across the globe from 48 countries (over 150 from Spain alone!), among them some usual ones but also again the previous Albanian Eurovision veteran, namely Besa. But not only as also Spanish Eurovision veteran, twice, Serafin Zubiri features in audition lists. As does Andrea Brosio, 3rd in The Voice of Finland 2017 and the winnner of All Stars season 2021. Add Questo e Quello, fresh from Sanremo giovani in December, Atle Pettersen from Norwegian MGP, Erminio Sinni, Romina Falconi and who knows if there are more familiar faces among all those names. Last minute addition Valleria from Moldovan selection where she got disqualified by being late apparently.

Later or before the semi-finals several artists pulled out or didn't present themselves, including Serafin Zubiri, Atle Pettersen, Grisana when the semi-final nights kicked in on February 22. Below are the qualifiers from each night while the show endless saga can be found here.

Semi-final one - February 22, 2025 (34 entries)

Among the wannabes Finnish The Voice winner (twice) Andrea Brosio and Jannike. Both eliminated.

1. KiNG FOO - The edge of the world (finalist)

2. Il Solito Daddy - Millenial (2nd chance)

3. Carson Coma - Daddy said no (2nd chance)

4. Effemme - Fuori di me (2nd chance)

Semi-final two - February 23, 2025. (35 entries)

Finnish Astrid Nicole made it to 2nd chance while Swedish mello trio (David Lindgren 2012, 2013 2016), Boris Renè (2016, 2017) Greg Curtis) made it to the final

1. CuRli - Juliet (Finalist)

2.Aniel - 777 (2nd chance)

3. Astrid Nicole - Dancing with my shadow

4. Tadeni - Quicksand

Semi-final three - February 24, 2025 postponed to 25th

UPDATE:

At this point it is useless to go with this semi-final phase as San Marino did what they do best: Create a total chaos by announcing the line up on random Tuesday noon in a wrong country, on a wrong TV network, spoil the results of semi-final yet to be broadcast and throw us a string of Sanremo wannabes from the past plus this year's Sanremo's theme song! You couldn't make all this up.

Update: Carlo Conti told this song was sent to Sanremo but he didn't accept in the competition but wanted it as the theme song instead while Gabry told he has done already most every experience but Eurovision in his career so that's why he supplied for Sanremo, and now for San Marino as the first didn't work out - especially after the positive feedback by the fandom to send this song to Eurovision!

As for the Sanremo artists of yesteryear or probably left overs of this year we have Bianca Atzei (2015, 2017), Pierdavide Carone (2012), Marco Carta (winner 2009), Luisa Corna (2002), Silvia Salemi (1996, 1997, 1998, 2003), Questo e Quello from the last Newcomers and finally Gabry Ponte, this year's Sanremo theme song.

And last year's Albanian entrant Besa. And Teslenko from Ukrainian selection 2024. KiNG FOO from Slovenian (2017, 2018), Angy from Luxemburg (2024)

Boosta is Davide Dileo of Subsonica fame (2000).

The line up for the final is as follows:

Bianza Atzei - Testacoda

Besa - Tiki

Boosta - BTW

Vincenzo Capua - Sei sempre tu

Pierdavide Carone - Mi vuoi sposare?

Marco Carta - Solo fantasia

Luisa Corna - Il giorno giusto

CuRli - Juliet

Elasi - Lorella

Haymara - Tomame las manos

KiNG FOO - The edge of the world

Paco - Until the end

Gabry Ponte - Tutta l'Italia

Questo e Quello - Bella balla

Silvia Salemi - Coralli

Angy Sciaqcua - I

Taoma - NPC

Teslenko - Storm

The Rumpled - You get me so high

Giacomo Voli - Ave Maria

to be updated

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