Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The first episode of AmaSanremo aired yesterday and the jury on spot in the studio (Luca Barbarossa, Morgan, Piero Pelù and Beatrice Venezi) provided 33% of the result along with the selecting commission (33%) and the televote (34%). You can watch it online HERE .  Amadeus was hosting, of course Luca Barbarossa was judging Arisa (Newcomers winner 2009) was performing both Sincerità , her winning entry back then, and her Sanremo runner up La notte M.e.r.l.o.t opened the night and scored 29 points from the jury. I gave 7. Quite nice, catchy but not so sure about the lyrics..... Ginevra followed with 36 points. I gave 5. Somehow I didn't connect and was surprised about the jury's high scores and praise that I totally didn't relate to somehow. Wrongonyou scored a full 40 points. I gave 8. A lot of praise from the jury, and I did like this. Not so sure about the live performance and its sound effects but propably sounds great on studio version.  Gavio scored 30 despite heavy cri...

Another rating success for Sanremo 2020. The fourth night scored a share of 53,3%, the highest since 1999 with over 9,5 million Italians glued to their tv- screens.  Fiorello and Tiziano Ferro had a minor fight the night before for the lenght of Fiore's gags and the fact Tiz had to sing sometime at morning light (apparently) but last night they kissed and made up (apparently). Fiorello was accusing Ferro launching a hate campaign against him in socail medias and threatened to walk away.... maybe.  This said Ferro acted like an idiot after the kiss that was ment to be "almost there" but Fiorello did it for real. Ferro's esaggerated reaction as a gay man was rather enbarassing to watch.  Like if his husband will get angry for that for real. If he does maybe it's time to really divorce. Later in the evening there was a kiss between Fiorello (masked as Ghali) and Ghali, following that fake one between Elettra Lamborghini and Myss Keta the night before. ...

La dolce vita - Italian film music is an event project that has been premiered in New York last year and this summer has taken place in Italy and next year will (hopefully) tour the world from Switzerland to Japan.  Who wouldn't know the Italian classic movies and their music written by names like Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and others? The idea of the project is very simple: make those songs live again performed live by Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini orchestra with guest singers like Alice, Raphael Gualazzi and Morgan with projection of the main scenes from the movies. Simple and effective. Those who have seen it love it. One more chance to catch this for now is November 30 in Milan.  "I'm still excited and get emotional just thinking about it" explains the mind and record label mogul Caterina Caselli from Sugar when talking about the Lincoln Center performance last September in New York. "Martin Scorcese and Woody Allen were there and were very enthuastic...