* Spotlight on the 2003 Festival di
Sanremo *
The 53rd Anniversary of the Festival of the
Italian Song
March 4 - 8, 2003
· Host
· I Big
· Special Awards / Notes about this year's Festival
· Results
· Last year's Spotlight on Sanremo
· RAI is planning to broadcast
the Festival live on the Internet most likely on their radio network.
Visit the RAI Official
Festival di Sanremo site
for more information! · Returning to host this year's Festival is favorite Pippo Baudo, who, again, has been granted full control of the show. His female co-hosts are Claudia Gerini and Serena Autieri. The nightly lineup is as follows: March 4 – 1/2 Big and 1/2 Giovani will perform - the lineup is as follows: Oxa, Barbarossa, Eiffel 65, Dolcenera, Britti, Verdiana, Cammariere, Daniele, Zanicchi, Fiorellino, Lisa, Merola, Miro and Ruggeri, Zanier, Leali, Laquidara, DeAndre' and Zurawski. March 5 – 1/2 Big and 1/2 Giovani will perform - the lineup is as follows: Tatangelo and Straga', Minghi, Alexia, Pia and SuperZoo, Ruggiero, Giglio, Solo and Little Tony, Alina, Negrita, Lila, D'Angelo, Pedali, Russo, Fasano, Syria, Allunati, Silvia Salemi and Ferry. March 6 – All 20 performers will perform March 7 – All Giovani will perform and winner will be decided March 8 – the grand finale, all 20 Big and super
guests! · H
ere is the lineup for the 2003 edition of il
Fesitval di Sanremo: Alexia- “Per Dire di No” Andrea Mirò and Enrico Ruggeri - Nessuno tocchi Caino
” Here's the official lineup of international singers scheduled to perform:
There will be a lifetime achievement award given out to one of the first Sanremo stars, Nilla Pizzi. She performed on the first ever Sanremo festival with "Grazie dei Fior." Past awards have gone to Domenico Modugno, Tony Renis and Roberto Murolo.
T here are a few former winners
in this year's festival: Matia Bazar won with the song "...E Dirsi Ciao" in 1978 and have been doing well with
their songs in a number of past festivals, including a win last year and 3rd place in 2001
year; Antonella Ruggiero was actually a member of Matia Bazar during those early years. Fausto Leali won in 1989 with Anna Oxa("Ti
Lascero''). and Oxa won on her own a couple of years ago; Barbarossa was a winner in early 90's with "Portami a Ballare;"
Enrico Ruggeri is a two-time winner with the
rock hit “Mistero” and “Si Puo Dare di
piu” in the late 80’s, sung together with
Umberto Tozzi and Gianni Morandi; De Andre' was a 3rd place winner in '93 with "Dietro la Porta." Anna Tatangelo, of course, was the winner of last year's Nuove Proposte competition.
The scoring in this year's Sanremo is scheduled to be the same as last year:
- a panel of ten music experts, composed oof internationally known artists,
producers and critics from the entertainment industry (they will probably
control a larger share of the voting) will no longer vote on I Big, only on I Giovani and will make up just 25% of that vote
- a jury made up of representatives from aall parts of Italy; these will be
regular citizens representing every demographic, that will change every night
- the final third is a group of Italian ciitizens who will get to vote by phone
and represent the cd buyer
Luca Barbarossa – “Fortuna”
Alex Britti - “7000 Caffe'”
Sergio Cammariere - “Tutto Quello che un Uomo”
Nino D'Angelo - “A Storia 'e Nisciuno”
Cristiano DeAndre' -“Un Giorno Nuovo”
Eiffel 65-
“Quelli che non hanno eta'”
Fausto Leali – “Eri Tu”
Lisa - “Oceano”
Amedeo Minghi - “Sara' una canzone”
Negrita - “Tonight”
Anna Oxa - “Cambierò”
Antonella Ruggiero - “Di un amore”
Giuni Russo - “un mondo d'amore ”
Silvia Salemi - “Nel cuore delle donne”
Bobby Solo and Little Tony - “Non si cresce mai”
Syria -
“L'amore è”
Anna Tatangelo and Federico Stragà - “Volere Volare”
Iva Zanicchi - “Fossi un tango/span>”
ALINA “Un piccolo amore”
ALLUNATI “Chiama di notte”
DOLCENERA “Siamo tutti là fuori”
MARCO FASANO “E già!…”
JACQUELINE FERRY “Vicina e lontana”
GIANNI FIORELLINO “Bastava un niente”
ROBERTO GIGLIO “Cento cose”
PATRIZIA LAQUIDARA “Lividi e fiori”
ELSA LILA “Valeria”
FILIPPO MEROLA “Mi sento libero”
MARIA PIA and SUPERZOO “Tre fragole”
DANIELA PEDALI “Vorrei”
DANIELE STEFANI “Chiaraluna”
VERDIANA “Chi sei non lo so”
MANUELA ZANIER “Amami”
ZURAWSKI “Lei che”
March 4 - Shania Twain and Peter Gabriel
March 5 - Rod Stewart and Des'ree
March 6 - Carla Bruni and Panjabi MC
March 7 - Blue and Shaggy
March 8 - Diana Krall, Holly Vallance and maybe an appearance from Tatu, lesbian duo who caused quite a stir on Italian national TV with a kiss this past summer
Among other guests are the Juventus soccer team, Sharon Stone and an array of Italian comics.
Order of finish of I Big:
1. Alexia, “Per dire di no” 24,248 total votes 2. Alex Britti, “7000 caffé” 23,298 votes 3. Sergio Cammariere, “Tutto quello che un uomo” 21,919 votes 4. Andrea Mirò and Enrico Ruggeri, “Nessuno tocchi Caino” 21,779 votes 5. Syria, “L'amore è” 20,462 votes 6. Lisa, “Oceano” 20,310 votes 7. Giuni Russo, “Morirò d'amore” 18,147 votes 8. Silvia Salemi, “Nel cuore delle donne” 17,869 votes 9. Antonella Ruggiero, “Di un amore” 17,722 votes 10. Luca Barbarossa, “Fortuna” 17,487 votes 11. Nino D'Angelo, “A storia 'e nisciuno” 17,466 votes 12. Cristiano De André, “Un giorno nuovo” 17,298 votes 13. Fausto Leali, “Eri tu” 16,976 votes 14. Anna Oxa, “Cambierò” 16,933 votes 15. Eiffel 65, “Quelli che non hanno età” 16,758 votes 16. Bobby Solo and Little Tony, “Non si cresce mai” 16,754 votes 17. Anna Tatangelo and Federico Stragà, “Volere volare” 16,406 votes 18. Negrita, “Tonight” 16,276 votes 19. Amedeo Minghi, “Sarà una canzone” 13,404 votes 20. Iva Zanicchi, “Fossi un tango” 12,899 votes
“Mia Martini” Award (critics' award): Sergio Cammariere TV & Radio media award: Alexia Best lyrics: Enrico Ruggeri for his anti-death penalty tune Best music: Giuni Russo's "Morirò d'amore" written by Franco Battiato
Order of finish of Giovani competition:
Dolcenera Alina Zurawski Verdiana Gianni Fiorellino Daniele Stefani Patrizia Laquidara Elsa Lila Roberto Giglio Jacqueline Ferry Daniela Pedali Manuela Zanier Allunati Marco Fasano Maria Pia and SuperZoo Filippo Merola
“Mia Martini” Award for Giovani went to Patrizia Laquidara.
For more news on Sanremo '03, visit the RAI Official Festival di Sanremo site,
Italian newspaper sites such as La Stampa
or sites like www.festivaldisanremo.com.