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Stella Floras

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22/Jan 2009 at 07:27

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Mi Odo San Marino 2008 - © Mi Odo
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Evoluzione genetica

MiOdio in "SanremoFestival.59" online contest

Like every year, the Italian music scene is getting ready for the Sanremo Festival. In about one month Italy's most important pop music event will start: from February 17th to 22nd a great part of the Italian audience will watch the 59th edition, on RAI 1 as usual. This year, there will be some important changes to the usual format, thanks to Paolo Bonolis' organization. In the newly-introduced online competition for young talent we meet MiOdio, who represented San Marino in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

Beside the usual competition between "Big" (famous singers) and "Nuove proposte" (young, deburing artists), Bonolis thought of a third competition, something completely new for the Sanremo Festival: an online contest for young singers/groups.

Visiting the Sanremo official site here  (in Italian) you will be able to watch all the videos and listen to all the songs chosen for this online contest. The voting (through telephone and sms) will be divided into several phases:

From January 18th to 25th: 1st phase - 50 songs proceed to the 2nd phase
From January 26th to February 1st : 2nd phase - 30 songs proceed to the 3rd phase
From February 2nd to 8th: 3rd phase - 10 songs proceed to the 4th phase
From February 9th to 19th: 4th phase

Among the participating artists we find MiOdio, the band which represented San Marino in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Evoluzione genetica. Their song can be found on page 5 of the list.


A report by Cristina Giuntini, president of OGAE Italy.


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Richard M [19278]
Fri 23 Jan 2009 15:41:41

I loved Complice, unfortunately Europe doesn't seem to want to vote for the little-known countries. If Russia had the same song, I bet they would have done really well with it. Hope to see San Marino back in 2010.

By the way - people seem to be so ignorant and when I mention that I have visited San Marino, they say "oh I thought it was a song contest".


Paschalis (Khalid) [24641]
Fri 23 Jan 2009 13:47:27

I feel so proud that Greece gave them points! They deserved more of course!


david lopez [32952]
Fri 23 Jan 2009 00:48:28

They weren't robbed... they were BIG TIME robbed!

Beautiful Debut for San Marino!


togravus ceterum [32383]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 23:36:51

They were robbed in 2008! Good luck!


lucio f [15211]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 20:39:20

I won't be watching Sanremo, it's a pile of rubbish, the (so called) artists are worst ones ever. Especially Povia


Stockholm calling [44413]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 18:23:47

"Complice" was one of my favourites last year :D


Jonny K [46850]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 17:19:24

Complice was a good song, however I didn't really start liking it until I saw their live performance, still, they deserved more :D




Desirée NL [23321]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 14:36:11

I like the new San Remo song, but " Complice " was a better song for me. I wish them good luck at San Remo. They were great last year !! We had a great time with them.


T K [44537]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 14:30:41

@chris: i disagree! i luv this style of italian music! but hey we all have different tastes and im sure the rest of europe agrees with u and not me :D


ChrisP . [42145]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 14:14:05

Underrated? Maybe. Boring? Definitely. People have to be awake to vote... These guys released a follow up song a while after "Complice" an MP3 for download off their website, it was a much better song I think (although, I lost the mp3 :()


Ayka F [23816]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 13:43:25

Yes... me too... "Complice" was so underrated! This new song is good too! Bravo MiOdio!


Mina Carnation [51405]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 13:30:08

I agree with T K. Complice was so underrated :(


T K [44537]
Thu 22 Jan 2009 12:58:25

YAY great to see these guys still kickin! i thought they were fantastic and sadly terribly under appreciated!


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