The young Italian singer Angelina Mango has been proclaimed winner of the 74th edition of the Sanremo Festival with her song La Noia, the first woman to do so in the last decade, and will be able to represent Italy in Eurovision.
“You’re crazy!” she declared when the triumph of the artist was announced this morning, who made her debut in the Italian song contest and who has become the first woman to win it in the last ten years, since she did it in 2014. Arisa with Controvento.
Mango has lived up to the predictions, as she has been the big favorite since the start of the competition at the Ariston Theater. She won after obtaining 40.3% of the televoting votes of the audience, the press and the specialists of the Italian music radio stations with a cumbia sung in Italian with which she invites people to dance to forget and make fun of boredom.
With it, of the thirty artists and groups in the running, Geolier was the finalist, with its song in Neapolitan Ip’me, tu p’te, and which at a gala was booed when it was discovered that it was in the lead, and the already established Annalisa with Sincerely.
Mango, 22 years old, has been the main protagonist of this festival and thrilled at the fourth gala when she performed La rondine by her own father, Mango, who died in 2014 while giving a piano concert.
This emblematic musical competition, founded in 1951, has thus closed an edition with a record audience, exceeding 60% of the audience share every day and crowning the five years in which it has been organized by the director and presenter Amadeus, who will not repeat .
The contest, like every year, has featured public debate since its start last Tuesday, with tributes, more or less memorable recitals and, of course, specific controversies.
The most notable was starring the American actor John Travolta who, while visiting Sanremo as a guest, was encouraged to do the ‘little birds’ dance, visibly upset.
The Coldiretti consumer association has asked that an alleged case of hidden advertising be investigated given that the actor was wearing sneakers shown on camera while he danced his most famous moves, with the owner of the brand sitting in the front row.
Sanremo has also attended the return as a guest of the famous DJ Gigi D’Agostino, who played his most memorable songs after two years away from the public due to an illness that has not been clarified.
The Spanish singer Aitana also came to the Italian song festival to sing with Sangiovanni, author of one of her greatest hits, Farfalla, in Spanish, Mariposas.
The contest took place amid the protests of Italian farmers due to the crisis in their sector and their demands were read on the stage of the Ariston Theater by Amadeus, although they were not invited to appear.