Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 43 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956. It is not the first time that Italy compete with a duo, will they win this time?

Who are Fabrizio Moro and Ermal Meta?

1. Fabrizio released his debut album in 2000 and he achieved commercial success in 2007, after winning the Newcomers' Section of the Sanremo Music Festival with his entry "Pensa".

2. Like the albanese singe and the Eleni from Cyprus, Ermal Meta (born 20 April 1981) is an Albanian-born Italian singer-songwriter.

3. Fabrizio Moro is 43 and he is the oldest artist in competition.

4. Ermal Meta latest two albums peaked 1 in the italian charts.

5. Fabrizio released 9 albums so far, since 2000.

Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro have won the 2018 edition of Sanremo and will represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest with their song 'Non mi avete fatto niente' in Lisbon next May! With this duet Italy is back to the duos they used in the past like Tozzi & Raff or Anna Oxa & Leali. Lo Stato Sociale with Una vita in vacanza placed second. In ITunes, the three highest places are the same as at San Remo with the winning song reaching the higher place followed by Lo Stato Sociale and Annalisa who placed 3rd. 

If an artist is not going to release a new album before Christmas, they will do it in the beginning of the year. Our ESC artists are not an exception. Il Volo, Minus One and Andrius Pojavis are working hard on stage:

In just 10 days, Il Volo finished the recording of the disc that will begin a new stage in his career. The announcement was made by Gianluca Ginoble on social networks. The project will be revealed in early 2018. Emilio Estefan (Gloria Estefan husband and one of the most renowned producers in the Latin market) will be behind the new facet of the trio. Rumours say that the band invited Maluma to perform in the record, but to confirm it we must wait a bit more.

But we still in Italy since Andrius Pojavis went to Rome for "another chapter of my career...new songs new album new....???" - that's what Andrius shared in his facebook account just one 1 year since "Seven", his latest album, was released. Link to buy the CD: www.andriuspojavis.com/shop-1

Minus One announced right before the new lead singer man Andreas Kapatais got married that "The recordings for our new album will kick off at the end of November at Medley Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are happy to have the mighty Soren Andersen behind the wheel !!" Soren Andersen is a Danish guitarist, producer and songwriter, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides his solo project Electric Guitars, Soren works as a touring guitarist for Glenn Hughes and Mike Tramp. 

Seven years after the last album "Una piccola parte di te", the singer of Nuvolento returns to the stage with a new studio album "Non solo Leali".

Fausto Leali represented Italy with Anna Oxa in 1989.

It is a disc whose workings have seen Fausto Leali share the studio with some friends and colleagues for a series of duets on the notes of songs not necessarily drawn from his repertoire. the album was preceded by the single "A chi mi dice", duet with Mina on the Italian version of "Breathe easy" of Blue, with Tiziano Ferro text.

It's not an album that celebrates the career of Leali, "Non solo Leali" can be appreciated not only by his fans, but also by the Italian music fans.

Listen to it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwVBwasV5c

Arriving at the press center there have been a lot of statements and comments of press colleagues about the participants of this year. This are the things behind the stage and this are the things we are here for you to share it with you.

It’s time for „THE’s“ after the rehearsals, the EOThe’s

EOThe disappointment of the rehearsals is Belgium - the song was one of the favourites before the rehearsals, but actually everyone thinks that it will be difficult for Blanche to get a top 10

EOThe surprise - UK did a fantastic first rehearsal and every one was surprised and a lot of people speak about a top 10 for UK

EOThe black horse - Portugal actually is on top 2 at the bet websites and this even without Salvador being in Kiev yet and not having performed yet

EOThe craziest of the year - Macedonia’s Svlatko is definetly a very talented artist, but the performance on stage looks to heavy over performed and makes it kind of to crazy

EOThe anniversary of this year - its the 25th time of Ralph Siegel participating at the eurovision song contest and he his the spirit of the San Marino entree

EOThe clear favourite of this year - Italy made it better than Belgium and did not just meet the expectation, they also over fullfiled a good piece o top for the performance

EOThe turn around of this year - this time Germany will not be on the bottom of the score board, it’s what a lot of press colleagues say. A fresh and good performance

This are so far the actual "The's" out of the press center.

We will continue to keep you updated.

Pedro de Almeida