Italy: 22 Established Artists For “Festival Di Sanremo 2023” Revealed

Italian broadcaster RAI has just revealed a list of 22 established artists who will take part in “Festival Di Sanremo 2023“:

1. Marco Mengoni (Eurovision 2013, “Sanremo 2013”)
2. Elodie (“Sanremo 2020”)
3. Levante (“Sanremo 2020”)
4. Madame (“Sanremo 2021”)
5. Anna Oxa (Sanremo 1978, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1999, Eurovision 1989)
6. Coma_Cose (“Sanremo 2021”)
7. Tananai (“Sanremo 2022”)
8. Giorgia (“Sanremo” 1994, 1995, 2001)
9. Gianluca Grignani (“Sanremo 1995”, “Sanremo 2002”)
10. Paola (Sanremo 1997, 2019) & Chiara Lezzi (The Voice of Italy)
11. Colapesce Dimartino (“Sanremo 2021”)
12. Leo Gassmanm (Sanremo Giovani 2019)
13. Ultimo (“Sanremo 2018” – New commers winner)
14. Mr. Rain
15. Rosa Chemical
16. Articolo 31
17. Mara Settei
18. Moda’
19. Lazza
20. Ariete
21. LDA
22. I Cugini Di Campagna

The traditional music festival will take place for the 73rd time in the history of Italy.
The festival will last 5 nights, starting on the 7th of February 2023, and ending on the 11th of February 2023.

A total of 28 artists will take part in the festival: 22 established artists and 6 young artists (Top 6 artists from “Sanremo Giovani 2022″)

The 6 young artists will come from this list of competitors:

1. gIANMARIA 
2. Giuse The Lizia 
3. Maninni 
4. Mida 
5. OLLY 
6. Sethu 
7. Shari 
8. Will 
9. Colla Zio 
10. Fiat 131 
11. Noor 
12. Romeo & Drill 

As always, the results of the festival will be determined by:

• Public voting (SMS and televoting)
• The professional jury comprises 150 journalists from the web, radio, print, TV, and press room.
• Demoscopic jury – composed of 300 people.

• In the first 2 nights, the professional jury will vote. It will carry out its vote by dividing itself into three independent components: a third for TV and print media, a third for the radio, and a third for the web jury.
• On the 3rd night, the vote will be composed of 50% of the public voting and 50% for the Demoscopic jury
• The 4th night of the festival will be dedicated for covers for Italian and International songs which have been released between 1st of January 1960 and 31st of December 1999.
• On the last 2 nights, the voting will be divided into three parts: 34% for the public voting, 33% for the professional jury, and 33% for the Demoscopic jury.

Mahmood and Blanco represented Italy at Eurovision 2022 with the song “Brividi”.
They ended up in 6th place in the final:

What do you think about established artists?
Are you happy with the return of some of them?