The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Marco Masini is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and pianist.
Nicola Di Bari is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music.
Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè, known professionally as Mia Martini, was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.
Filippo Neviani, known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
Ornella Vanoni is an Italian singer. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in 1956. She has released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits albums, and is considered one of the most popular interpreters of Italian pop music. During her long career she has sold over 65 million records.
Giovanni Calone, known professionally as Massimo Ranieri, is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and theatre director.
Rosario Tindaro Fiorello, known just as Fiorello, is an Italian comedian, singer, radio and television presenter.
Franco Califano was an Italian lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, author and actor. His songs sold about 20 million records during his career.
Iva Zanicchi is an Italian pop singer and politician. She has a mezzo-soprano voice and is nick-named by the press as the "Eagle from Ligonchio".
Anna Hoxha, known professionally as Anna Oxa, is an Italian and Albanian singer, actress and television presenter. She has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival.
Giuseppa Marcella Bella, known as just Marcella Bella or simply Marcella, is an Italian pop singer with a career spanning six decades. Her repertoire includes several songs composed by her brother Gianni.
Riccardo Fogli is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Amor Prohibido is the second studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. This album was released in 1984.
Gaetano Cristiano Vincenzo Rossi, best known as Christian, is an Italian singer, mainly successful in the first half of the 1980s.
Giuliano Illiani, best known as Donatello, is an Italian singer, mainly successful in the first half of the 1970s.
"Non voglio mica la luna" is a 1984 song composed by Zucchero Fornaciari, Luigi Albertelli and Enzo Malepasso, arranged by Vince Tempera and performed by Fiordaliso. The song premiered at the 34th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, where it ranked fifth. It is Fiordaliso's signature song and her main commercial success.
