The thousand-year-old sound of the Island celebrated last year by Mahmood and the Tenores di Bitti still resounds at the Ariston. And that's a good thing because this year, but here we're only talking about the competition, we'll have to settle for echoes.
Sardinia in the 75th edition of the Festival will not see big names on stage but will be represented by Mahmood himself , who with Blanco signs Noemi's piece "Se t'innamori muori" and will certainly sing during the co-hosting on Friday, when he will share the stage with Geppi Cucciari and the host Carlo Conti. Even further behind the scenes there will be Slait, a producer from Olbia born in '87, aka Iacopo Pisano, who took care of the production and arrangement of Giorgia's piece "La cura per me", one of the favorites for the victory.
The history of the Island at the Festival began precisely sixty years ago, 14 after "Grazie dei fiori" by Nilla Pizzi, when the 23-year-old bricklayer from Telti Vittorio Inzaina sang with the Malagasy group Les Surfs Si vedere in the Ballroom of the Sanremo Casino and came in second behind Bobby Solo.
In 1968 Marisa Sannia made her debut at the Festival : just 21 years old, the singer from Iglesias, paired with Ornella Vanoni, captured the audience with Casa Bianca, written by Don Backy, and won a silver medal. Sannia returned to the Festival three more times until 1984, enough to see fashions, music and the transition from black and white to color change.
In 1970, the Galluran Angelo Sotgiu of Ricchi e povero, with Angela Brambati, Franco Gatti and Marina Occhiena, debuted at Sanremo with La prima cosa bella and won in 1985 with Se m'innamoro. The 13th participation in 2024 was very lucky: the two Angels, wearing ribbons and always coordinated, hit the jackpot with Ma non tutta la vita, also published in Spanish, which went viral on TikTok and was very popular on Spotify and YouTube.
In 1977, in Sanremo, the first of four times for the Collage from Olbia: Masino Usai, Piero Pischedda, Pino Ambrosio, Tore Fazzi and Piero Fazzi won second place with Tu mi rubi l'anima.
