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Il Festival della canzone italiana, a popular song contest in Italy,  is held annually since 1951 and it takes place in the city of Sanremo in the Region of Liguria (Italians usually refer it simply as “Sanremo Festival”), which lies on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy.  If you plan a trip, see what are the  events in San Remo. Each year passing by, the most outstanding Italian singers got on the stage of Ariston Theatre and this event has always shown  the most creative side  of Italian music, since the very beginning when Nilla Pizzi won the first two editions and her songs became unforgettable for decades.

 
This national cultural event  soon was to grow  popular  not only in the music business but even among the general public, slowly getting the status of social event: radio jamming Sanremo music, Tv screening Sanremo singer interviews, gossips or videoclips. People got absorbed and talked about nothing else than the Sanremo competition, everywhere in Italy. Even the elderly people, who in the sixties still weren’t used to watch the television, would stop by and watched.

Apparently this once magic atmosphere got partly lost during more recent times. As far as it was reported, roughly 30% of television viewers actually followed the 58th edition this year 2008  (which was broadcasted between 25th of  February and 1st  of March 2008). It seems that over the last few years the songs simply do not get the extraordinary enthousiasm  among the public as in the past.
In this 2008 San Remo Festival  harsh words were out  on this matter :  the famous artistic director of the Festival Pippo Baudo, who has been leading  the show since the begining of times, has been complaining   that  the decline of the San Ramo Festival is due to  a lack of broadcasting   of the very song contest because of the increasing "junk tv shows" – as Mr Baudo puts it -  that take the tv space ….

Back to music, which is the essence of the competition,  results were made public late 1st of March and the winners are : The song “Colpo di fulmine” (“Crush”) by the duo Giò di Tonno and Lola Ponce won the first position, followed by Anna Tatangelo with “Il mio amico” (“My friend”) at the second position, just the third position for Fabrizio Moro  with “Eppure mi hai cambiato la vita” (“Yet you changed my life”), who last year was acclaimed   with the lirycs “Pensa” (“Think”) dedicated to mafia victims.

You want to write your own comments or simply view other people’s opinions on the Festival di San Remo? Then take a look at the San Remo Festival Blog

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