9 March 2002 - Sanremo: Matia Bazar win
Final voting fully reflected the previous evenings' results and take the festival from Alexia, favouring Matia Bazar with a song built to win Sanremo. Third place to Gino Paoli. Guest of honour Roberto Benigni who illuminated the scene with his humanity, surrealism and depth (...)
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8 March 2002 - Sanremo: Anna Tatangelo wins the Young final
The first verdict at Sanremo was given: Anna Tatangelo won, a fifteen year old from Sora. Following respectively Valentina Giovagnini and Simone Patrizi. Also Alicia Keys was great, the revelation performer of the year and winner, just 22, of the beauty of 5 Grammy Awards. She sung Schubert's "Ave Maria" accompanied live with the piano (...)
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7 March 2002 - Sanremo: an unexciting evening
Eliminated by the Jury Dual Gang, Plastico and La Sintesi while Marco Morandi passed the stage with a fairly nice track. Among the big the confirmations are for the Matia Bazar, in a good position for the final rush, Paoli and Ruggeri, but yet again the juries do not vote Patty Pravo who remains at the bottom of the chart (...)
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6 March 2002 - Sanremo: The debut of the Young
With the baggage starting to fill up with the usual and sterile polemics tied into to charts and juries, the festival's second evening emits its first verdict eliminating, of the eight New Offers, the last three placed. The guest of the evening Anna Marchesini, was as usual witty and humorous (...)
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5 March 2002 - Sanremo: the first evening
Matia Bazar, Alexia and Enrico Ruggeri lead preliminary charts at the end of the Festival's first evening, musically not very exciting but excellent in the set design and in Gino Landi's direction. A Pippo Baudo who is less of a protagonist than usual engages a duet with a lively and bubbly Fiorello (...)
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4 March 2002 - Sanremo : a life buoy for the crisis of the album?
With the press conference held yesterday, Monday 4th March, the 52nd Festival of Italian Song has officially taken off. More than 500 between radio and private tvs and almost 160 newspapers, for a total of more than 1300 journalists, have all gathered in the Ligurian town (...)
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3 March 2002 - Sanremo: Festival di Sanremo on the start line!
Here we go! Monday 4th of March there will be a press conference and Tuesday the 5th the festival will start which will give Italians something different to discuss than football for a week (...)
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3 March 2002 - Sanremo: At Sanremo the guest is woman
Roberto Benigni aside, this year the parterre of guests at the Sanremo Festival is all feminine. Women command charts and audience favour, and the artistic management is sensitive to the trend that sees female super-power in the landscape of International music (...)
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1 March 2002 - Sanremo: Interview to Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo, her real name Nicoletta Strabelli, is back on stage, getting ready to tackle the Sanremo Festival with a totally energetic approach, albeit not taking that victory many expect as granted (...)
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3 March 2002 - Sanremo: The musical show in 5 evenings
Here we go again, curtain rises again on the Sanremo Festival and Italy of song is in eager anticipation of what will be the notes to accompany the arrival of spring. The 52nd edition of the Sanremo festival will open on Tuesday 5th of March 2002 (...)
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20 January 2002 - Sanremo: Sanremo, here are the "big"
Here it is, this year as well, the names of the artists who will take part in the 52nd SanRemo Festival, an Italian song review which sees the return of Pippo Baudo as host after Fazio's adventurous explorations and last year's drastic restoration (...)
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20 January 2002 - Sanremo: The 'Young' at San Remo
There will be 16 'Young' taking part at the 52nd edition of the Sanremo Festival. Of these four were selected by the San Remo Academy, an organisation which by now has replaced Castrocaro (...)
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Winners of Critic's prize New Offers section
Won the beauty of four times by Paola Turci, and then by future protagonists like Marina Rei, Timoria, Niccolò Fabi, Daniele Silvestri and many others, the Critics' Prize new offers section has helped building the success of many young artists (...)
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Winners of Critic's prize Champions section
In 1982, next to the usual SanRemo competition, a new section is created, dedicated to the Critic' Prize; that year it was won by Mia Martini with "E non finisce mica il cielo". Since then many of the songs that won this section have obtained a huge public success, sometimes even higher than the official winner song (...)
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All the Festival di Sanremo winners
From 1951 with Nilla Pizzi's "Grazie dei Fior" to the past 2001 with Elisa's victory for the Big and the very young Gazosa in the "new offers" section, the list of all the victories of the Festival of the Flower riviera (...)
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