Morten Thomassen writes today about the runner up in 2019. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

Sometimes you just feel that some countries have something going on and that you are just waiting for the golden spot to become theirs.

Thus, it was fitting that our Italian friends took second place in 2019, which we are talking about today.

They did have 26 points to the Dutch winner, but it was Mahmood who got the audience with him in the hall.

Perhaps not so strange all the time he almost encouraged the audience to clap in this rather danceable song about money no less.

A bit funny, in hindsight it can seem as if the calm songs and the faster songs came every other time at the top of the results list.

In any case, the song “Soldi” had 102 points down to third place, so this was a very safe second place, possibly the safest points-wise of them all.

As this year there was quite a lot of disagreement between the jury and the televoting, this meant that Italy’s fourth place in the jury and third place in the telephone voting still gave them the silver place overall.

It should be mentioned that the winner did not win any of the votes this year either.

Alessandro Mahmoud as the real name of the artist started his career in 2012 by participating in the Italian version of X-factor, this led to him releasing his first single in 2013.

He tried for the first time in the San Remo Festival in 2016, but it was not until 2019 that participation there would lead to great success.

We also remember well that he and Blanco won the festival that sends artists to ESC and in this attempt he came 6th as a duet partner.

We would like to see him again in our dear competition, I think, the only advice in that case would be to find singing alone or find a partner who is willing to sing cleanly.