Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Lele Esposito. Now that's an interesting story. First of all he's from Maria De Filippi's talent reality Amici, the latest season. He came third and is in Sanremo in the newcomers selection. Now that Marianna Mirage and Tommaso Pini are out he's propably the biggest favorite. But. As said he came third. The winner Sergio Sylvestre and runner up Elodie Di Patrizi are among the Big. Yet they all have pretty much the same experience and number of releases to their credit. And to make things even more interesting he's dating beforementioned Elodie.  Let's see what happens tonight. Will he be the next Sanremo newcomers winner? Will Elodie (or Sergio) make it to the podium and maybe end up singing for Italy in the Eurovision? Or will Lele be the one with success this time around? His song would be perfect anyways.  He has also other goodies  

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...