Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Lele won Sanremo newcomers this year with  Ora mai  and his latest  Cosi com'è is filled with summer beats and Napoletan passion. Elodie's  Verrá da se  has got some great ideas in the arrangement and the video has some great posing to go with them. Highy enjoyable in every sense! Good job from this Roman. Francesco da Vinci is back with a new,  Nun passa maje , and if his exploding Napoletan passion wasn't enough the song is even sung in Napoletan! What's there not to love? Sicilian beauty Giusy Ferreri's  Partiti adesso  is a real hidden earworm. Already released a few months ago it has made its way to this blogger's headradio sneaky sneaky. Love it.

Lele, the winner of Nuove proposte/Newcomers 2017 Tonight's the night. The five day long 67th festival della canzone italiana comes to an end and by some very late or early hours we will have the new winner and who will represent Italy in the Eurovision song contest 2017 in Kyiv in May. Maybe. Carlo Conti and Maria De Filippi are hosting. Zucchero and Alvaro Soler  are singing. Paolo Vallesi and Amara will be presenting their song Pace that didn't make the cut of 22 Big.  Maurizio Crozza,   Enrico Montesano  and Geppi Cuccar i is doing comedy and there are countless other guests, among them Rita Pavone , also a member of the jury who will be awarded for her life long career in music. . And the 16 remaining Big artists are ready to fight for the top-3.  The voting is the already familiar 3-way of televote, expert jury ( Giorgio Moroder (head of jury, Italian composer and producer), Linus (radio DJ), Andrea Morricone (composer and conducter), Rit...

The rumour is back also this year. The leading lady of the competing tv-company could join forces with Carlo Conti in Rai this year. Usually the other channels have tried to do everything to steal viewers from the festival and even Maria De Filippi has done her best by placing Amici final during the festival at times. Now, Amici. The talent show of her creation uniting a bit of Idols, X Factor and Got Talent is currently running its 16th season and over the years many artists from there have ended up in Sanremo - to the horror of purists. The fact is the whole top-3 of the last season is in Sanremo: winner Sergio Sylvestere and runner up Elodie amongst the Big, and third placed Lele amongst the Newcomers.  Previous winners Marco Carta , Valerio Scanu  and  Emma Marrone have won also the festival and quite a few others have participated. Last year Amici winner Deborah Iurato placed third, and Dear Jack , her runner ups did Sanremo already twice, and their ex-fr...

Here are again some entries from the #SG 2017 that this blogger finds worth a mention. All are fighting for the 12 places in the December live final for the six places in the festival in February.  Jo M or Giovanni Mazzara from Catania presents L'Uragano non ci prende , a nice pop song from his debut album to be released shortly. He started as a drummer and is now ready to breakthrough, he has a very famous production team behind him. La Rua has done Castrocaro, Amici and has tried to get to Sanremo 2012, 2013, 2014... and now they are back with Tutta la vita questa vita . Will they make it this time? LaKurA or Laura Carpani is singer-songwriter with pop and r'n'b influences. Pagine di noi   sounds like a Swiss Eurovision entry. Not sure if that's a good thing really... Lele ( Esposito) is another ex-Amici, fron Naples. His Ora mai is a majestic pop tune with lovely arrangement. If he gets through he's going to be strong in televote at least..... at...