Mahmood has won the 2019 Sanremo festival and has taken up the challenge to represent Italy at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song called Soldi (Money).
Mahmood took the top prize after votes by journalists, music jury and public voting. Soldi is an upbeat song with some rap.
You can see Mahmood perform his winning song Soldi below.
Source: ESC Covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqRjzZjFSE
Sara Dall’Olio has gained more success at the 2018 Euro Pop Contest Berliner Perle in Berlin, Germany. Sara took the 3rd place prize in the category for 18-24 years old group where she represented Italy.
The Euro Contest Berliner Perle was held between 23-25 November and there were different age categories. Some of the countries participating included Philippines and Cuba, not just European countries. The event took place at the Russian Haus theatre in Berlin.
Sara performed two songs in the competition. She did the classic Caruso song, recorded by many artists including Lara Fabian. The other song was Listen by Beyoncé.
Sara’s prize included a crystal glass trophy, a medal, a bear mascot of the competition and a cash prize of 150 euros.
Sara continues to blossom at the music festivals with much success. She was a member of The Peppermints who represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
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ESC Covers caught up with the Italian composer Marco Iardella, the co-writer of What Is Love by Melissa & Marco.
Marco also wrote the 2016 and 2017 Italy JESC songs by Fiamma Boccia, Cara Mamma, Maria Iside Fiore, Scelgo.
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Sara Dall’Olio is this weekend taking part in a competition on the prestigious tv show Mezzogiorno in famiglia on the RAI 2 tv channel in Italy.
The competition is broadcast live on RAI 2 and is a challenge between different Italian cities. The competitors compete against each other via arts such as singing, dancing, painting, etc. Sara will compete in the Castrocaro team, which consists of 12 people.
Today, Saturday 3 November, dancers will compete and there will be televoting and there will be different games also. On 4 November there will be a singing competition and Sara will perform. She will be representing the Castrocaro city and again there will be televoting.
If you in Italy this weekend you will see Sara holding details of how to vote for her in the photo above.
Sara was a member of The Peppermints who represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
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Melissa & Marco have been selected to represent Italy at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The song they will present is called What Is Love.
The official video clip has also been released and is filmed in Venice.
Watch the video and listen to What Is Love below.
Source: ESC Covers; junioreurovision.tv
Sara Dall’Olio was a special guest and juror at the 2018 Angel Voice – Belgrade International Music Festival in Serbia recently.
Normally we are used to seeing Sara shine as a successful participant in many international festivals but this time Sara was judging performers and songs. Sara was the winner of the Grand Prix, representing Italy, here last time around.
Sara, however, got to do what she loves best….she performed as a special guest on the stage at the festival.
She gave an outstanding performance of Molitva, the winning song for Serbia at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest by Marija Šerifović.
Sara also performed the soulful classic And I Am Telling You by Jennifer Hudson …and previously Jennifer Holliday.
You can see Sara perform Molitva (in Serbian) with And I Am Telling You below.
Source: ESC Covers
It is a nice welcome back to Arianna Ulivi. She took to the stage this week to do a cover version of Riptide by Vance Joy in Lanciano in Italy.
Arianna was a member of The Peppermints, who represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Breaking My Heart.
Check out Arianna’s performance of Riptide below.
Source: ESC Covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhMMU8UPjs
Sara Dall’Olio has had another big success by winning the overall Grand Prix prize at the 2018 Tra La La festival held in Ohrid and Bitola in FYR Macedonia. Sara was representing Italy.
105 participants tooks part in various categories of different ages. We told you earlier this week that Inis Neziri from Albania had won the runner up prize.
Sara was in the fifth category (19 years old and older). In the first round she sang a song in her native language, Italian. It was Come saprei by Giorgia. On the second day, where the theme was movie songs, Sara sang I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston from The Bodyguard movie. Finally, on the third day she sang a foreign language song and it was Woman In Love by Barbra Streisand.
Sara was delighted to win the top prize and a beautiful big trophy as well as 1,000 euros.
Congratulations to Sara again on another big achievement in a top festival.
You can follow Sara on facebook by searching Sara Dall’Olio fan club.
Source: ESC Covers
The young and talented Sara Dall’Olio from Italy has enjoyed more great success at the 2018 Malta International Singer’s Festival – Eurostars. Sara won the first prize for her category (19 and over) and also a special prize as part of a duet.
The Eurostars competition is a festival held in Malta and it is divided in to several age categories. 17 countries participated with 107 singers taking part.
As part of the Opening Ceremony Sara performed I Will Survive, the popular song by Gloria Gaynor. In the main competition she performed the classic, Caruso. Sara impressed the judges and took the first prize for her age section.
Sara also won a special prize by singing a duet with her friend Aurora Bandinelli Rigobello. Together they sang La voce del silenzio.
Sara has a very impressive record at music festivals where she has won many prizes. She also represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest as part of The Peppermints.
Source: ESC Covers