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Sanremo Music Festival 2018
The Sanremo Music Festival 2018 (), officially the 68th Italian Song Festival (), was the 68th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held in the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo and organised and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Claudio Baglioni, who also served as the artistic director, with Michelle Hunziker and Pierfrancesco Favino. The competition was divided in two sections. The winners of the Big Artists section were Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro with "", who thus earned the right to represent in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The Newcomers' sections was won by Ultimo with the song "". Format Presenters Singer-songwriter and musician, Claudio Baglioni, was the main host and artistic director of Sanremo Music Festival 2018, alongside co-hosts Michelle Hunziker and Pierfrancesco Favino. Voting Voting during the five evenings occurred through different combinations of four methods: * Public televoting, carried out via landline, mobile phone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Baglioni
Claudio Baglioni (; born 16 May 1951) is an Italian Pop music, pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years. Considered one of the most successful pop rock singer-songwriters in the history of Italian music, he has sold over 60 million records, among which ''Questo piccolo grande amore'' from 1972 stands out, of which the song of the same name was awarded «song of the century», ''Strada facendo'' from 1981, one of the albums the artist's most successful album and ''La vita è adesso'' from 1985 which is the best-selling album of all time in Italy. In the 90s he experiments world music with the discs of the ''time trilogy'', which began with ''Oltre (album), Oltre'' (1990) considered his masterpiece, continued with one of the best-selling albums ever in Italy ''Io sono qui'' (1995) and ended with ''Viaggiatore sulla coda del tempo'' (1999). In 2006 he composed the anthem of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Also an innovator in the field of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino (; born 20 May 1967) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has worked his way from making short films only aired on Italian television to become a well-known and successful American filmmaker. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films. Muccino has directed 12 films and is best known for his first American film ''The Pursuit of Happyness'', starring Will Smith. Muccino has been nominated for and won several awards including the David di Donatello for Best Director, David di Donatello Award for Best Director in 2001 for his film ''The Last Kiss (2001 film), The Last Kiss''. Life and career Born in Rome, Gabriele Muccino started his studies at Sapienza University of Rome in Italian literature but dropped out of University to pursue a career as a director. His first on-set film experience was as a volunteer director's assistant. This inspired his passion for filmmaking and led him to take courses in screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiwibloggs
Wiwibloggs is a fansite and YouTube channel focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest, launched in 2009 by journalist William Lee Adams. History In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won the Arts & Culture category at the UK Blog Awards. Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025) and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amara (singer)
Tuwuh Adijatitesih Amaranggana (born 8 July 1975), better known by her stage name Amara or Mara is an Indonesian singer, actress, and model. Career Amara was born in Jakarta, on 8 July 1975. She was a teenager in 1989, when she started her career as a model for the Indonesian fashion magazine Covergirl. he had plunged into an advertisement model in several advertisements and video clip models for several musicians. Her mother, Itje Komar, works as a producer for a recording studio called "Bintang Gemilang Jaya Sakti" in Jakarta. In 1996 she founded with Arie Widiawan, and her future husband Frans Mohede, the vocal trio, Lingua. An Indonesian musical group of country pop. Despite the great success that their group has obtained in Indonesia, the group ends in oblivion in the early 2000s. It has been said repeatedly that their decline was cause as a result of the Asian financial crisis. She has since followed a career as an actress, having received many proposals for roles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Russo (presenter)
Federico Russo (born 22 December 1980) is an Italian radio and television presenter. He is known for presenting ''The Voice of Italy'' on Rai 2 (seasons 2 to 4), and for being the main Italian commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest between 2015 and 2019 contests as well as Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light show in 2020. He also was the spokesperson for Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, where he announced that Italy had given the twelve points to Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...'s Måns Zelmerlöw and his winning song "Heroes". References External links * 1980 births Mass media people from Florence Italian television presenters Italian radio personalities Living people {{Italy-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and singer. Life and career Gerini was born in the city of Rome in Italy in 1971. When she was 13 she won the 1985 Miss Teenager beauty contest. Her acting debut came a year later in ''La ballata di Eva.'' She then had various roles in films including ''Roba da Ricchi'' (1987), directed by Sergio Corbucci. In 1990, when she was 19, she appeared on the popular TV show '' Non è la Rai''. Gerini's first major role was in Pasquale Pozzessere's ''Il padre e il figlio'' (1994). She later moved to Paris to learn French for several months, frequently travelling between Italy and France while still studying sociology at university. At 22 she returned to Italy and got a role as protagonist in ''Angelo e Beatrice'', a theatrical work by Francesco Apolloni presented on stage at the Theater Coliseum in Rome, where director and actor Carlo Verdone noticed her. The encounter with Verdone produced '' Viaggi di nozze'' (1995), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai 1
Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's Flagship (broadcasting), flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and Generalist channel, generalist programming, usually aimed towards families, including ''TG1'' news bulletins, prime time drama, cinema and entertainment, and major breaking news, sports and special events. It was launched on 3 January 1954 as the first Television in Italy, regular television service in Italy. It was the only one until 4 November 1961, when RAI launched a Rai 2, second channel. The channel was initially referred to as "Programma Nazionale". It received other names, such as "Rete 1" and "Raiuno" until it adopted its current name "Rai 1". It has the highest viewership in Italy and regularly competes with Mediaset's Canale 5. In the United Kingdom, it is available in free-to-air satellite broadcast from Hot Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Petrella
Davide Petrella (born 6 August 1985), also known as Tropico, is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist. Life and career Born in Naples, Petrella started his career as founder and frontman of the band Le Strisce, with whom he recorded three albums. In 2014, he collaborated with Cesare Cremonini on the album '' Logico'', and since then he became one of the most requested songwriters in Italy. Artists with whom he collaborated include Gianna Nannini, Elisa, Marracash, Jovanotti, Elodie, Mahmood, Sophie and the Giants, Giusy Ferreri, Emma Marrone, Alessandra Amoroso, Fabri Fibra, Achille Lauro, The Kolors, Fedez, J-Ax, Fred De Palma and Anitta. At the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival two songs co-written by Petrella, Marco Mengoni's " Due vite" and Lazza's "Cenere", took the lead in the final ranking, respectively in first and second place; together with Mogol, Alberto Testa, Franco Migliacci, Cristiano Minellono and Zucchero Fornaciari Adelmo F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valle D'Aosta
The Aosta Valley ( ; ; ; or ), officially the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, is a mountainous Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, to the west; by Valais, Switzerland, to the north; and by Piedmont, Italy, to the south and east. The regional capital is Aosta. Covering an area of and with 122,714 inhabitants as of 2025, it is the smallest, least populous, and least densely populated region of Italy. The province of Aosta having been dissolved in 1945, the Aosta Valley region was the first region of Italy to abolish provincial subdivisions, followed by Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 2017 (where they were reestablished later). Provincial administrative functions are provided by the regional government. The region is divided into 74 (). Italian language, Italian and Aostan French, French are the official languages, and the Valdôtain dialect of Franco-Provençal is als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilicata
Basilicata (, ; ), also known by its ancient name Lucania (, , ), is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. It has two coastlines: a 30-kilometre stretch on the Gulf of Policastro (Tyrrhenian Sea) between Campania and Calabria, and a longer coastline along the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea) between Calabria and Apulia. The region can be thought of as "the arch" of "the boot" of Italy, with Calabria functioning as "the toe" and Apulia "the heel". The region covers about . In 2021, the population was slightly over 540,000. The regional capital is Potenza. The region comprises two provinces: Potenza and Matera. Its inhabitants are generally known as Lucanians (), and to a lesser extent as or by other very rare terms. In ancient times, part of its territory belonged to Magna Graecia, subject to coastal Greek colonies (including Sybaris). Later the region was conquered by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Regions
The regions of Italy () are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. There are twenty regions, five of which are autonomous regions with special status. Under the Constitution of Italy, each region is an autonomous entity with defined powers. With the exception of the Aosta Valley (since 1945), each region is divided into a number of provinces. History During the Kingdom of Italy, regions were mere statistical districts of the central state. Under the Republic, they were granted a measure of political autonomy by the 1948 Italian Constitution. The original draft list comprised the Salento region (which was eventually included in Apulia); ''Friuli'' and ''Venezia Giulia'' were separate regions, and Basilicata was named ''Lucania''. Abruzzo and Molise were identified as separate regions in the first draft, but were later merged into ''Abruzzi e Molise'' in the final constitution of 1948, before being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
