It's cover day at the Sanremo Festival .
The 28 big names will perform with as many artists not in the competition , interpreting with them 28 songs released between 1 January 1960 and 31 December 2009.
The evening was hosted by Amadeus and Gianni Morandi accompanied by the actress Chiara Francini .
THE VOTE – The exhibitions will be voted with a mixed system: televoting (which will have a weight of 34%), journalists (33%) and the opinion poll jury (33%). At the end of the episode, a new ranking will be drawn up which will average with the previous ones.
Guests will be Peppino Di Capri (for him the delivery of the Lifetime Achievement Award) and the cast of the series "Mare fuori" . Morandi will remember Lucio Dalla who would have turned 80 on March 4th.
And the hypothesis that an alternative consortium to Rai could get its hands on the organization of the Festival still holds. «An email has arrived from a group that deals with events, but there are no economic offers. Now is not the time, we will evaluate later », explained the mayor of Sanremo Alberto Biancheri at the press conference, at the moment not convinced that this could be a viable path . Giovanni Toti , president of the Liguria Region, shares the same opinion: «The Festival without Rai would be like pesto without basil».
THE DUETS – Here is the list of duets, in order of performance, as presented at the press conference:
- Aries and Sangiovanni – Franco Battiato's permanent center of gravity
- Will with Michele Zarrillo – Five days of you and me by Michele Zarrillo - Elodie and Big Mama – American woman of The Guess Who (made famous by Lenny Kravitz); - Olly and Lorella Cuccarini – Night flies by Lorella Cuccarini; - Last with Eros Ramazzotti – Medley by Eros Ramazzotti; - Lazza with Emma and Laura Marzadori – The end of Nesli, reinterpreted by Tiziano Ferro; - Tananai with Biagio Antonacci and Don Joe - I would like to sing like Biagio Antonacci by Simone Cristicchi, - Shari with Salmo – Devil in me, medley of songs by Zucchero; - Gianluca Grignani and Arisa – Destination Paradise by Gianluca Grignani; - Leo Gassmann and Edoardo Bennato with Quartetto Flegreo – Medley by Edoardo Bennato; - Article 31 with Fedez - Medley of Article 31 - Giorgia and Elisa – Luce (sunsets in the North East) and Di sole e d'azzurro - Colapesce and Dimartino with Carla Bruni – Azzurro by Vito Pallavicini and Paolo Conte; - I Cugini di Campagna and Paolo Vallesi - The strength of life, Anima mia, medley of the Cugini di Campagna; - Marco Mengoni with the Kingdom Choir – Let it be by the Beatles; - gIANMARIA and Manuel Agnelli – What is not there of the Afterhours; - Mr. Rain and Fasma – Something Big by Cesare Cremonini; - Madame and Izi – Via del Campo by Fabrizio De André; - Coma_Cose e Baustelle - It will be because I love you (Ricchi e Poveri) - Rosa Chemical and Rose Villain – America by Gianna Nannini; - Fashion and The Vibrations - Come to me of The Vibrations; - Levante and Renzo Rubino – Living by Vasco Rossi; - Anna Oxa with DJ Iljard Shaba – A recent emotion by Anna Oxa - Sethu and bnkr44 – Charlie surfs Baustelle; - LDA and Alex Britti – Today it's me by Alex Britti - Mara Sattei and Noemi – L'amour toujours by Gigi D'Agostino; - Colla Zio and Ditonellapiaga - I will go up by Daniele Silvestri.
