Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI)
Participation summary
Appearances	10
First appearance	2014
Last appearance	2024
Highest placement	1st: 2014
Participation history 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
External links
Italy's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Italy has been represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since the twelfth edition in 2014. ^[1] The Italian participating broadcaster in the contest is Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI).

History

RAI selected its debut entry via an internal selection as "Tu primo grande amore" by Vincenzo Cantiello, which went on to win with a total of 159 points. This made Italy the second country to win with the debut entry after Croatia's victory in the first edition. Before Italy debuted, there were two entries sung in Italian: "Birichino", which represented Switzerland in 2004 and "O-o-o Sole intorno a me" which represented San Marino in 2013.

In 2015, the Italian broadcaster decided to participate again, this time sending the twins Chiara and Martina Scarpari to the contest. However, Italy only finished 16th in the contest, collecting 34 points. The next year, Italy achieved its second podium finishing third.

Italy withdrew from the 2020 contest because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite initially announcing that they would not return to the 2021 contest, ^[2] they ultimately announced that they would return to the 2021 contest in France, where their entrant Elisabetta Lizza placed 10th with 107 points. ^[3]

Participation overview

Table key

1	First place
3	Third place
†	Upcoming event

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Place	Points
2014	Vincenzo Cantiello	" Tu primo grande amore "	Italian, English	1	159
2015	Chiara and Martina	"Viva"	Italian [a]	16	34
2016	Fiamma Boccia	"Cara mamma (Dear Mom)"	Italian, English	3	209
2017	Maria Iside Fiore	"Scelgo (My Choice)"	Italian, English	11	86
2018	Melissa and Marco	"What Is Love"	Italian, English	7	151
2019	Marta Viola	"La voce della terra"	Italian, English	7	129
2021	Elisabetta Lizza	"Specchio (Mirror on the Wall)"	Italian, English	10	107
2022	Chanel Dilecta	"Bla Bla Bla"	Italian, English	11	95
2023	Melissa and Ranya	"Un mondo giusto"	Italian, English	11	81
2024	Simone Grande	"Pigiama party"	Italian, English	9	98
2025	TBD September 2025 † [4] [5]

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov. ^[6] The Italian broadcaster, RAI, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Italian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Italy. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2014.

Year(s)	Channel	Commentator	Spokesperson	Ref.
2014	Rai Gulp	Antonella Clerici and Simone Lijoi  [ de ]	Geordie
2015		Simone Lijoi	Vincenzo Cantiello	[7]
2016		Simone Lijoi and Laura Carusino Vignera  [ it ]	Jade Scicluna	[8]
2017		Laura Carusino and Mario Acampa  [ it ]	Sofia Bartoli	[9]
2018		Federica Carta and Mario Acampa	Yan Musvidas	[10]
2019		Mario Acampa and Alexia Rizzardi	Maria Iside Fiore	[11] [12]
2020	No broadcast		Did not participate	N/A
2021	Rai Gulp	Mario Acampa, Marta Viola and Giorgia Boni	Céleste	[13]
2022	Rai 1	Mario Acampa, Francesca Fialdini, Rosanna Vaudetti and Gigliola Cinquetti	Vincenzo Cantiello	[14] [15]
2023		Mario Acampa	Julia Wazne	[16] [17]
2024	Rai 2	Mario Acampa, Simone Barlaam and Kaze	Unknown	[18] [19]
2025		Mario Acampa	TBA	[20]

Photo gallery

• 
  Vincenzo Cantiello in Malta International Airport with the winner's prize, after his victory (2014)
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  Chiara & Martina performing "Viva" in Sofia (2015)
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  Fiamma Boccia performing "Cara Mamma (Dear Mom)" in Valletta (2016)
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  Mellissa and Marco in Minsk (2018)

See also

• Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest – Senior version of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Notes

1. Contains words in English

References

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