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. Al Bano and Romina Power returned to Eurovision for the second time with Magic oh magic  and finish again 7th but this time out of 19, so it's a bit higher in average than their 1976. They were chosen for reasons only known to Rai but the year before they had won Sanremo with Ci sarà . In 1985 Sanremo was won by another Eurovision act, namely Ricchi e Poveri with Se m'innamoro . Read more about Al Bano and Romina here .

  What can I say? Ricchi e Poveri and I go a long way. I remember liking their Eurovision entry back in 1978 when they were still a quartet. The real fandom started however in 1981 with Sará perche ti amo . And those three (Marina had left/kicked out) are responsable for me starting Italian studies and the fact I learned it with music and vocabularity rather than real studies. I listened, read the lyrics at the same time from the album's sleeves and checked the words I didn't understand and along the way learned to pronounce well as well.  After 52 years in business they are still touring and singing, but as a duo because Franco left Angela and Angelo in 2016 to dedicate to his family after his son died.  2019: