Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Italy took its well deserved third victory - finally! - at the Eurovision song contest 2021. Over the years several other Italian entries would have been worthy winners. In this series I will go through all of them from the worst ranking to the winner s. Massimo Ranieri (70) got his first shot at Eurovision thanks to winning Canzonissima and his L'Amore é un attimo placed 5th out of 18.  Read about him and  his less fortunate second time here .  Sanremo was won by Nicola Di Bari with Il cuore é uno zingaro , but he had to wait another year for Eurovision though. 

Giornale.sm has released the news this morning that Sammarinese Valentina Monetta will represant the tiny state in the Eurovision 2012 in Baku. With a song in English written by Ralph Siegel. Listen her sing Let it be here . Somehow this feels a bit anticlimax, doesn't it? But let's wait for the confirmation at noon and the song on Friday..... maybe this is another stunt by them, after Nicola di Bari with Andrej Babic :-) UPDATE : Valentina it is. Siegel is not so sure. Let's see and wait. Besides, apparently Giornale.sm has violated the agreement with the SMRTV not to publish the news before the end of the press conference, and in the heat of the moment this blogger among others did the same. I apologise. I didn't know. Here's  Una giornata bellissima .

San Marino's TV has managed to keep the secret until the end it seems and the speculations goes wild on internet. The latest "sure" name mentioned is Valentina Monetta - whoever she is as for me she is totally unknown. A few days ago there was the spectacularly managed hint on Nicola Di Bari but what if it is true after all? From this year's Sanremo festival the names of Noemi, Erica Mou and Marco Guazzone have been mentioned. And further more or less unknown names like Antonella Di Coco , Daniela Pedali, Monica Hill, Alessandra Bisignani along with the return of Miodio , with or without Lavika . But also Eurovision veterans Glen Vella and Roberto Meloni have been mentioned. And the always present L'Aura and Paola & Chiara . It's no secret this blogger would love to see the Iezzi sisters in Eurovision but tomorrow we will know...