| Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
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| Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) | |||
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| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
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| Song | "Rockstar" | |||
| Artist | Leonardo Giovannangeli | |||
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Italy will be represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Rockstar" , written by Claudia Zanecchia and Giancarlo Prandelli, and performed by Leonardo Giovannangeli. The Italian participating broadcaster, Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), internally selected its entry for the contest.
Prior to the 2025 contest, Italy had participated in the contest ten times since its first entry in the 2014 contest, winning the contest with its debut entry " Tu primo grande amore " performed by Vincenzo Cantiello, marking its only win to this point. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] In 2024, Simone Grande competed for Italy with the song "Pigiama party", which ended up in 9th place out of 17 entries with 98 points. [2]
On 30 September 2025, RAI announced that it had internally selected eleven-year-old Leonardo Giovannangeli with the song "Rockstar" as the Italian entrant for the 2025 contest. [3] [4] Giovannangeli had previously participated in the third season of The Voice Kids, where he had reached the final as part of team Clementino. [5] The song was released on 3 November, alongside an accompanying music video. [6]
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place at the Gymnastic Hall of Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 13 December 2025. On 4 November 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine the running order of the contest, ahead of which each song was classified into a different category based on its musical style and tempo. Italy was drawn to perform in position 12, following the entry from the Montenegro and before the entry from Portugal. [7]
In Italy, the event will be aired on Rai 2 and RaiPlay, with commentary provided by Mario Acampa ; Rai Kids will be responsible for the television production of the Italian broadcast. [4] [8] [9]
Giovannangeli's performance will be staged by Claudio Santucci and choreographed by Erika Rombaldoni, with camera direction by Cristian Biondani, lighting programming by Blearred and graphics by Roof Video Design. RAI described the concept of the performance as "energetic and engaging, expressing the power of dreams and the pride of asserting one's identity". [10]
The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every participating broadcaster assembles a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten. [11]
The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 12 December 2025 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 13 December at 16:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able to vote for three songs. [12] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.