Music competition: Italo-Popper Olly wins Sanremo

The Italo-Popper Olly won the 75th edition of the Sanremo music festival. The 23-year-old from the nearby port city of Genoa on the Italian Riviera prevailed against 28 others with the ballad “Balorda Nostalgia”. Olly – With a bourgeois name Federico Olivieri – Italy is now also represented at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which takes place in Basel in Switzerland in mid -May.

Two years ago, the Northern Italian in Sanremo had already won the youth competition. “Balorda Nostalgia” (“Evil Nostalgia”) is about memories of earlier times that suddenly get through and also hurt. “A feeling that people from the sea is very familiar,” said this year’s winner.

Dream switching rates for television channels Rai

Olly stands for a mixture of pop, hip-hop and electronic music. He is currently on an already sold out tour in Italy. Italy’s public service broadcasting station RAI transferred the festival to five evenings in a row and thus won ratings of sometimes more than 70 percent. The decision on Saturday night was made at 2:00 a.m.

The “Festival della Canzone Italiana”, the official name, is Europe’s oldest pop music competition. Sanremo has existed since 1951. Since then, the competition has been taking place every year in winter – initially in the Sanremo casino, since 1977 in the Teatro Ariston. Again and again the festival also ensures debates far beyond music. The next morning in the cafés and also at the workplace it is a regular topic of conversation.

Germany will decide on March 1st about the ESC contribution

In 1958 Domenico Modugno provided the first great success with his hit “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu” (better known as: “Volare oo, Cantare Oooo”). Later, other, even less well -known musicians celebrated their first great successes such as Adriano Celentano, Milva, Gigliola Cinquetti or 2022 the band Måneskin, who then also brought the ESC to Italy. The decision on this year’s German ESC contribution is made on March 1.