San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

San Marino is scheduled to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy. The Sammarinese broadcaster, San Marino RTV (SMRTV), will organise the new national final Una Voce per San Marino ("A Voice for San Marino") to decide their representative.

Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Country San Marino
National selection
Selection processUna Voce per San Marino
Selection date(s)Emerging acts round:
13–17 December 2021
5–11 January 2022
Semi-finals:
February 2022
Final:
19 February 2022
San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Background
Main article: San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2022 contest, San Marino has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 11 times since their first entry in 2008.[1] The nation's debut entry, "Complice" performed by Miodio, failed to qualify for the final and placed last in the semi-final it competed in.[1] San Marino subsequently did not participate in both the 2009 and 2010 contests, citing financial difficulties.[2][3] In 2014, Valentina Monetta represented San Marino for the third year in a row,[4] and managed to bring the nation to the final for the first time with "Maybe", placing 24th.

The second time San Marino qualified for the final, and the country's best result to date, was in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, where Serhat represented San Marino for the second time and finished in 19th place in the final, singing "Say Na Na Na".[1] After planning to take part in the 2020 contest with Senhit and her song "Freaky!" before it was cancelled, San Marino participated in 2021 with Senhit and the song "Adrenalina". For the first time ever, the nation qualified for the final two times in a row. In the final, Senhit (accompanied by rapper Flo Rida) achieved 22nd place.

Before Eurovision

Una Voce per San Marino

On 5 April 2021, SMRTV confirmed the participation of San Marino in the 2022 contest and the introduction of Una Voce per San Marino ("A Voice for San Marino"), a new national final format to select the nation's entry as a part of a 2021–2022 tourism events calendar introduced by the government of San Marino.[5]

Format

On 22 September 2021, SMRTV revealed that the event will be held between December 2021 and February 2022. All competing artists will initially be divided into two categories: Emerging and Big. Emerging artists will be invited to attend an academy in the Teatro Titano in the City of San Marino 13–17 December 2021 and 5–11 January 2022, acting as preliminary castings. In February 2022, a series of semi-finals and a final will decide the nine Emerging acts that will move on to the Grand Final, with the top three also being awarded €1000, €2000 and €7000, respectively. The first four members of the jury for this category, announced on 16 November 2021, are Emilio Munda, Roberta Faccani, Roberto Costa and Steve Lyon.[6][7] Big artists, also nine in total, will instead be directly invited to the final by Media Evolution SRL.

Competing entries

SMRTV opened a submission period on 22 September 2021 for emerging artists and composers to submit their entries. On 16 November 2021, the broadcaster announced it had received over 200 applications, particularly from Germany, Russia and Sweden, but also from other European countries, the USA, and Australia.[8][9]

Emerging Acts Round

The Emerging Acts Round will take place between 13–17 December 2021 and 5–11 January 2022. 90 competing artists were announced on 11 December 2021 for the December period.[10]

Day 1 – 13 December 2021
Draw Artist Song
1 Marvin Schories TBA
2 Pascale Filomena Pia
3 Silvia Cialona
4 DanyWise
5 Camille Cabaltera
6 Giovanni and Tinashe
7 Andrea Rutigliano
8 Alessandro Stocco
9 Susanna Reppucci
10 Pietro Peloso
11 Juri Mattia
12 Joe Romano and TheStolenClipper
13 Christopher Grevener
14 The Sidèra
15 Rosario Bottone
16 Leandro Aponte
17 Manuel Piccoli
18 Myky Petillo
19 Vanja Vatle
20 Secondo and Rosanna
21 Vanessa Semprini
22 Theodor Xir
23 Alessandra Simone
24 Luca Cima
25 Marco D'Annunzio
26 Nanowar of Steel
Day 2 – 14 December 2021
Draw Artist Song
1 Mattia Di Bernardo TBA
2 Sara Ricci
3 Florent Amare
4 Rafel Senzacorona
5 Fedor Silvestrov
6 Williams Leslie Yapi
7 Maria Marchione
8 Gisele Abramoff
9 Anna Turrei
10 Francesca Bernardini
11 Maria Chiara Leoni
12 Rafel Senzacorona
13 Daniela Pisciotta
14 Marco Murrone
15 Elisa Del Prete
16 Annalaura Princiotto
17 Elettra Benedetto
18 Waleska Lafitte
19 Garon x Duan
20 Massimiliano Tufo
21 Martina Gaetano
22 Stefan Varga
23 Panagiotis Tsakalakos
24 Yana Gorbunova
Day 3 – 15 December 2021
Draw Artist Song
1 Federico Baroni TBA
2 Gabriele Cavalera
3 Leonardo Frezzotti
4 Fabienne Jacquemod
5 Giada Pintori
6 Jetem
7 Leandro Pallozzi
8 Nico Calvano
9 Aurora Carrus
10 Matilde Pieri
11 Diego Federico
12 Sara Mascella
13 Alessia Valentina Nicotra
14 MST
15 Libero Reina
16 Muriel
17 Juliana Davis
18 No Longer Player
19 Jennifer Turri
20 Chiara Malibrani
21 Ginevra Bencivenga
Day 4 – 16 December 2021
Draw Artist Song
1 Alice Burani TBA
2 Gloria Galassi
3 Angela Madonia
4 Raimondo Cataldo
5 Noemi Mariani
6 Marco Saltari
7 Matilda Bonucci
Day 5 – 17 December 2021
Draw Artist Song
1 Alessia Labate TBA
2 Goji
3 Alex Ferro
4 Aaron Sibley
5 Ottobre Rosso
6 Jeezus
7 Rossella Zitiello
8 Milena Mingotti
9 Giulia Vitri
10 Maria Chiara Urbinati
11 Gloria Vampa
12 Asia Antonietti
13 Sophie Adebiyi

Final

The Grand Final will take place on 19 February 2022 at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana. A total of 18 artists will participate, nine from the Emerging section and nine from the Big section. A jury will decide the top three, with the winner going on to represent the country at Eurovision 2022.

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is scheduled to take place at the PalaOlimpico in Turin, Italy, and will consist of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 10 and 12 May and the grand final on 14 May 2022.[11] According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host nation and the "Big Five", consisting of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals to compete for the final, although the top 10 countries from the respective semi-final progress to the grand final.[12]

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