Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Eurovision 2012 Entrants: Italy

Ah Italy.  After a successful return to the Eurovision Song Contest after a decade long absence, RAI has decided to send a singer for the second year in a row. 

Like last year, the singer Italy's is sending to Baku was chosen from the singers in the San Remo Song Festival, but instead of the sending the winner of the newcomer section of the contest, like they did last year with Raphael Gualazzi, Nina Zilli, who came in seventh in the professional section of San Remo, was chosen by a "special jury".

RAI announced that Nina would be performing the song she performed at San Remo in the contest




Nina Zilli  "Per Sempre"


but decided afterwords that the song wasn't appropriate, and they decided to send another song.



Nina Zilli  "L'Amore È Femmina"


The song is very professional and the new-soul sound a la Amy Winehouse will certainly go down well with my friends at the Eurovision party I always throw, which means that it will go down really well with the national juries.  Unless Zilli really chokes on the night of the finals, I can see this one doing pretty well...

And the song will be high on the rotation on my iPod very soon.



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