Tag Archives: San Marino
Serhat & Helena Paparizou team up for a ‘Total Disguise’
Serhat & Helena Paparizou have come together to release a special duet of the song Total Disguise. The combination works very well and the song is very upbeat with a strong production.
Serhat represented San Marino at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with I Didn’t Know.
Helena Paparizou won the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest for Greece with My Number One and was also part of Antique, who finished in third place with (I Would) Die For You for Greece at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest.
You can hear Total Disguise below.
Source: ESC Covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwx-CiGWchY
FUN FACT – SAN MARINO
Sara Dall’Olio enjoys another big success in Malta International Singer’s Festival – Eurostars
The young and talented Sara Dall’Olio from Italy has enjoyed more great success at the 2018 Malta International Singer’s Festival – Eurostars. Sara won the first prize for her category (19 and over) and also a special prize as part of a duet.
The Eurostars competition is a festival held in Malta and it is divided in to several age categories. 17 countries participated with 107 singers taking part.
As part of the Opening Ceremony Sara performed I Will Survive, the popular song by Gloria Gaynor. In the main competition she performed the classic, Caruso. Sara impressed the judges and took the first prize for her age section.
Sara also won a special prize by singing a duet with her friend Aurora Bandinelli Rigobello. Together they sang La voce del silenzio.
Sara has a very impressive record at music festivals where she has won many prizes. She also represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest as part of The Peppermints.
Source: ESC Covers
LOSERS ARE ALSO WINNERS
Although the road to the Eurovision 2018 Grand Final, unfortunately, ended for eight countries last night as they did not each the final, they are also winners as they made it to Eurovision 2018. With 43 countries taking part and only 26 in the final, we all knew 17 countries would not be there. We already said goodbye to 9, and now the final 8 not to make it are:
Georgia: Ethno Jazz Band Iriao “For You”
Beautiful song but maybe a little bias as I was in Tbilisi November 2017 for Junior Eurovision and loved every moment
Latvia: Laura Rizzotto “Funny Girl”
So sad for this, Latvia is my favourite country in Eurovision and the delegation work so hard withe much less people than most other delegations
Malta: Christabelle “Taboo”
Big fan of Thomas Gson songs but I think the staging was not helping the song at all
Montenegro: Vanja Radovanović “Inje”
One of the nicest artists in the press conferences and a very good song but I fear we have had too many similar songs over the years
Poland: Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer “Light Me Up”
This looked and sounded too similar to Norway 2017 for me and as such did not grab my attention
Romania: The Humans “Goodbye”
I like this but had a feeling we will say goodbye to them as the background had just too many masks
Russia: Julia Samoylova “I Won’t Break”
I like the song but thought her 2017 song was more catchy. But Russia kept their promise and brought Julia again in 2018 and I am proudlwy wearing today a t-shirt I got from the delergation
San Marino: Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening “Who We Are”
I have always been a fan of San Marino mainly because I am attacked to the smaller countries and of course Ralph Siegel but you had fantastic videos entered on line and I think you picked totally the wrong song
Sara Dall’Olio wins the Grand Prix at the 2018 Abanico festival in Bulgaria
The young and talented Italian singer, Sara Dall’Olio, is again enjoying much success in a top festival. This time Sara took the Grand Prix award at the 2018 Abanico festival in Bulgaria. It took place in the capital city, Sofia. It was the seventh edition that took place over the weekend of 23 to 25 March. The competition is for singers, dancers and musicians.
Sara won the category for over 18 years age. On the first day she performed the classical song, Caruso. Then on day two she sang I Surrender by Celine Dion. Finally on day three in the Gala phase, Sara performed another famous classical song, Adagio.
Over in Bulgaria with Sara was the artistic dancer, Ilaria Eleonora Maresca. She won the 2 prize – she is 15 years old. She gave a Latino performance.
You can see Sara perform at the festival at this link –
https://www.facebook.com/111895792223423/videos/1685953764817610/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTM0MTgwNDUwNjozMDYwNjExMjk0OTk0MTQ6MTA6MDoxNTIyNTY1OTk5Oi0zNDAwNjE5Njg5MzQxNjgzMTE/
Source: ESC Covers
Sara Dall’Olio releases video clip for ‘Dimenticarmi di te’
Sara Dall’Olio has released a brand new song and video clip for the original composition Dimenticarmi di te (Forget about you). The song is by Luca Medri and Alberto Pepoli.
Sara won the first edition of the competition ‘Giulietta Loves Romeo’ in February 2017 in Verona. The prize was to make a videoclip and have radio promotion. Sara has been on Radio Italia tv and radio station where the video was also broadcast. The video was recorded in Cervia (the city where Sara lives). The competition was organised by Angelo Valsiglio (who composed many songs for Laura Pausini) . Also, in February of this year, Sara was a special guest at the second edition of ‘Giulietta Loves Romeo’, where the video clip was premiered. Sara also got the chance to meet the famous Italian singer, Ivana Spagna.
Sara has had much success in the last few years in various festivals in Italy and abroad.
Sara was a member of The Peppermints who represented San Marino at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta.
You can see the video for Dimenticarmi di te below.
Source: ESC Covers
Jessika (feat. Jenifer Brening) will represent San Marino at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Who We Are’
Jessika (feat. Jenifer Brening) will represent San Marino at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Who We Are after winning the 1in360 national selection competition held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Jessika (Jessica Muscat) is from Malta and has appeared several times in the Malta Eurovision national selections. Jenifer is from Germany and also had a solo song in the San Marino selection.
You can see Jessika (feat. Jenifer Brening) perform their winning song below.
Source: ESC Covers
TOP 50 MILLENNIUM SONGS (position 30)
Chain of lights, the 2015 Eurovision entry from San Marino ended in position 30. It is sung by Anita Simoncini & Michele Perniola. It is such a catchy song and had it been sung by stronger singers it would have done much better.
100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 13 (The social network song)
Valentina Monetta participated 4 times for San Marino at the Eurovision song contest – each time with a Ralph Siegel song – this was the first in 2012.