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EUROVISION 2024 SAN MARINO: MEGARA - 11:11 + UNA VOCE PER SAN MARINO

The tiniest of them all once again had the biggest and longest national selection of them all. San Marino's 3rd edition of  Una voce per San Marino started in October 2023 and ended February 24, 2024 and was won by Spanish group Megara. Over 700 submissions from 31 countries were received and after countless auditions we had five semifinals plus second chance round before the final with added Big artists and even one AI song.... If someone had patience and managed to keep up with it all - good for you! Megara is a group from Madrid founded in 2015. Their music is described fucksia rock, or alternative metal. Kenzy Loevett is the colorful lead singer.  Other members are Tio Rober Bueno (electric guitar), Vitti Crocutta (bass) and Raphaela Tacce (drums). They released their debut EP back in 2015 followed by an album in 2016 and another one in 2018.  Four years later they released their third one and in 2023 they took part in Benidormfest with Arcadia placing 4th. They tried...

EUROVISION 2024: MEGARA WINS IN SAN MARINO BEATING LOREDANA BERTÈ

Megara 11:11 From Benidormfest to Una voce per San Marino (and vice versa for Nebulossa) was the winning card for Megara, a Spanish alternative rock band who won last night ahead of Loredana Bertè and La Rua. I had a sneaky feeling La Rua was the pre-contest designed winner with a song co-written/produced by Dardust (who would then have had three entries in Malmö: Luxemburg, Italy and San Marino) until Loredana Bertè entered with the wildcard with her Sanremo song Pazza so she could "go to Sweden and annoy her ex-husband Björn Borg". Well, that's a reason like no other I guess. This said, I'm happy she didn't win. Mind you, I have nothing against her and I love some of her songs but I just think first of all the song wasn't good enough and secondly this La Bertè adoration in fandom has gotten a bit out of hand already. And most of all I think her winning  would have done nothing but harm to the credibility of UVPSM, the little it has managed to gain in the p...