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. Yet another duet! Fabrizio Moro and Ermal Meta joined forces and indeed did win Sanremo together with Non mi avete fatto niente . For once Italy was not among the top favorites but they reached a respectable 5th place out of 43.  Fabrizio Moro (46) started his career in mid 1990's and came to Sanremo's newcomers in 2007 that he won with two albums and one participation in Newcomers. The year after he's third among Big and has ever since collected awards here and there. he also writes for other artists, and 2012 he's behind the 3rd placed song sung by Noemi. Nine studio albums, almost 30 singles and a career that is still going very strong. Ermal Meta (40) was born in Albania, tried Sanremo newcomers twice with diffe...

Italian Eurovision stars Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro have decided to give up the copyrights of their Sanremo winner and Eurovision 5th placed entry Non mi avete fatto niente to EMERGENCY thus giving its profits to charity joining Musica per Emergency project.  EMERGENCY is an independent and neutral Italian association founded in 1994 to offer free and high quality medical and surgical care to victims of wars, anti-personnel mines and poverty. EMERGENCY promotes a culture of peace, solidarity and respect for human rights. This blogger respects!

GERMANY - MICHAEL SCHULTE - YOU LET ME WALK ALONE I was born From one love of two hearts Vocals **** Staging **** Song **** Overall **** Left side of the scoreboard ITALY - ERMAL META & FABRIZIO MORO -  NON MI AVETE FATTO NIENTE Perché la nostra vita non è un punto di vista E non esiste bomba pacifista Vocals **** Staging **** Song ***** Overall ***** Left side of the scoreboard FRANCE - MADAME MONSIEUR - MERCY Je suis née ce matin Je m’appelle Mercy Vocals ***** Staging **** Song ***** Overall ***** Left side of the scoreboard

The Big5 first rehearsals continue with top-3 favorite France and very much underrated Italy.... Germany - Michael Schulte - You let me walk alone Germany seems to have scored well with it's improved staging; a lot of close ups of Michael, screen graphics and powerful delivery. Seems they are the second country with home brought LED wall for the projections in black and white and red, the photos were submitted by his fans earlier this spring apparently.  The duplicate image of Michael spreading his hands gets kinda psychedelic and disturbing but for the rest it looks pretty nice. At least they make the stage look very different from anyone else. Oh yes, you can't quite see it behind the LED wall, that's why... Casually dressed (for now?) and vocally strong. Did we witness some teary eyes, too? Some are putting Germany up there among winning candidates but let's not get over enthuastic here, maybe top-10 at best, right? And of course some opposite reactions: l...

While the rest of Eurovision artists are heavily involved with their entries and promoting them in Italy things are different: both Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro have released already follow up singles to their joint Sanremo winner Non mi avete fatto niente . Ermal Meta's Dall'alba al tramento is the second single off his Non abbiamo armi album, while Fabrizio Moro's L'eternità (Il mio quartiere) is a new version of his 2013 song, now re-recorded and featuring Sanremo Newcomers winner Ultimo, off his compilation album Parole, rumore e anni .

After all the drama and polemics and risk of disqualification they did it. Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro won the 68th Sanremo festival with Non mi avete fatto niente (You haven't done anything to me) , a song with a strong text against terrorism.  During the week it emerged the song uses parts of a song Silenzio, sent to Sanremo newcomers section already three years ago. RAI suspended their participation and they couldn't perform on Wednesday as planned until the decision was made and they had an OK to go on, and they were back in competition on Thursday. Now let's see how EBU takes this, as they plan to go to Lisbon Eurovision with this song, that stays stricktly in Italian as "we represent Italy". Hooray for that! Ermal Meta (37), born in Albania but moved to Bari, Italy at the age of 13, with his mother (a professional violin player) and a sister and a brother, leaving a violent father. At the age of 16 he starts to play piano and guitar and joi...

  The 68th Sanremo continued with success last night. The second of five nights was followed in media by 9.687.000 Italians or 47,7% share. Last year there were a bit more viewers but lower share, 46,6%. The viewers were this year 11,708.000 for the first half of the over 4 hours long marathon, and 5.826.000 followed til until the end, aroud 01.10 last night.  The situation with Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro has been resolved and they are back in business. The song is allowed to compite and only time will tell how Italians and juries will react to the wholee affair - will it be judged for what it is or will they be punished?