Italy: Sanremo Giovani 2021 rules have been released, the submission period opens today. The Nuove category has been removed for Sanremo 2022

RAI, the national broadcaster of Italy, has released the renewed formula of Sanremo Giovani 2021 and announced the abolition of the Nuove Proposte category in Sanremo 2022.

The Italian broadcaster, RAI, has released the formula according to which the Sanremo Giovani 2021 competition will take place. Major innovations are the abolition of the “Nuove Proposte” category at the February Festival, and in addition direct access to the San Remo Festival in February to the 2 winners of the December Sanremo Giovani.

The record companies must send to the Festival Organization the applications of their artists with the respective “new” songs through the website www .sanremo.rai.it. from today, September 16, at 11:00 a.m. and strictly no later than Saturday 16 October 2021.

The rules of Saremo Giovani 2021

RAI has published the rules of Sanremo Giovani 2021.Exactly the rules are:

Artists must be 16 years old on January 1, 2022 and, on the same date, can not be 30 years old.

Artists must never have taken part in Sanremo among the Big, not even as part of a band.

Artists must not be part of the Sanremo Area, which we will discuss later.

Artists must have released at least two singles in their career.

The record companies will have to send the songs between 11:00 on Thursday 16 September and 18:00 on Saturday 16 October, forwarding all the required documentation.

2 artists who will go to Sanremo will have to present a second song, different, which must be ready in the audition phase and which could be requested in this contest

In the auditions 8 artists will be chosen by the musical commission who will join the 4 of the Sanremo Area, who must register in Sanremo Giovani no later than 22 November.

Songs must have a maximum duration of 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

How Sanremo Giovani finalists will be selected

A total of 12 artists will take the stage at the Teatro del Casinò di Sanremo in December for the Sanremo Giovani 2021 final.

Initially, the artistic director listens to all the pieces in order to check if they meet the conditions for participation. The music committee will then select the 30 artists who will appear in the live auditions in Room A on via Asiago. The 30 artists (plus the winners of the Sanremo Area) will have to send to the committee a different piece than the one used for Sanremo Giovani, which, in case of victory, they will present in February at the 72nd San Remo Festival.

In this phase, 8 of the 12 finalists of Sanremo Giovani will be selected. The other four artists who will complete the final line up in December will be selected, again by the Music Committee, through the local Sanremo Area competition.

Italy in Eurovision

Italy is one of the seven countries that had its first participation back in 1956.

After a 14-year absence from 1998 and on, the country returned to the contest in 2011.

Italy has won the contest twice in 1964 with Gigliola Cinquetti and the song “Non ho l’età” and in 1990 with Toto Cutugno and the song “Insieme: 1992”.

This year the rock band Maneskin with their song ‘Zitti e Buoni’ won the contest with 524 points in total.