With less that two months until the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, more countries are releasing their official songs, and videos. In the last couple of days there has been a plethora of new songs, with today's instalment coming from Italy who have in the last hour released their official entry with the song "What Is Love"?. The song which will be sung by Melissa and Marco is your typical love song, and was released officially only an hour ago. Italy tends to keep their en

In a tweet from their official Eurovision account, Italian national broadcaster RAI have confirmed that Italy will be competing next year in Tel Aviv at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. This follows news earlier in the year that famous Italian music festival Sanremo, which has been used as the national selection for Italy's Eurovision representatives since their return to the contest in 2011, was going to undergo a number of big changes to the process. It is expected that th

Italy's Junior Eurovision host broadcaster, RAI Gulp, has today confirmed the country's participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 - which will take place in Minsk, Belarus on November 25th. Details about whether RAI Gulp will hold a national final or select Italy's representative internally are, as yet, unknown. Italy were represented in Junior Eurovision 2017 by Maria Iside Fiore and her song 'Scelgo' (I Choose), which came a disappointing 11th despite scori

Somedays ago, the RAI announced the names of the "Campioni" singers for Sanremo 2018 in the TV show "Sarà Sanremo". In this show, we listened to the singers who will be part of the "Nuove Proposte", to see the 8 artists that will be in the Festival of Sanremo. Talking about the "Campioni", we know the 20 artists who will be in the stage of the Ariston Theatre in February and will be in the race to Eurovision 2018, and the name of the songs (I remember that we can't listen the

The second day of rehearsals is underway at the Olympic Palace in Tbilisi. The remaining 8 countries will take to the stage for their first rehearsals. First to take to the stage was Maria Iside Fiore from Italy. Maria appears to be very confident on stage and gave a good, strong performance of her song "My Choice". The colours of her outfit and of the stage are very bright and Maria really does Shine Bright on stage. Next up was 10 year old Gianluca from Malta, and he didn't

13 year old Maria Iside Fiore will represent Italy at the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with her song "Scelgo" (My Choice). The song was written by Maria herself, alongside Fabrizio Palaferri and Stefano Rigamonti. It is sung in a mix of Italian and English. Maria is no stranger to the stage, having been performing since a young age. She has taken part in local and international many contests and festivals, the most recent being "Cantagiro", an Italian Summer F

It's been almost two months since Portugal was crowned the winner of the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine and many Euro-Fans are still craving for more Eurovision. To quell our need for more Eurovision, we set out to find singers from all over Europe and Australia and compile them into a wish-list for the Eurovision Song Contest. Over this six part series we will travel from Norway to Australia, from Iceland to Portugal and from Finland to Italy in search of ou

Today the Big 5 of the Eurovision Song Contest, France, German, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, all drew their respective halves for the grand final after completing their second round of rehearsals. The host nation, Ukraine, drew their position in the second half of the grand final in spot 22 back during the Heads of Delegation meeting back in March. Instead of having a separate pot for the automatic qualifiers, like last year, the organisers decided to have the final

It's official Eurovision week is about to begin!!! It's only three days until the first semi final, and exactly a week to the day that the Grand Final will air. After months of searching Europe will be crowned with a new champion. The polls have been running, and the bookies have been taking bets, where some songs have faired better than others. Also, the rehearsals have changed the dynamics of these, with some songs not being praised as much as they have been, and now dr

Here in the United Kingdom it is May day. It is a traditional day of festivities celebrating springtime fertility. This bank holiday in the U.K coincides with the first Monday in May, and in the past was convenient to give farmers the day off. This year may day marks the countdown to Eurovision, 9 days until semi-final 1, 11 days until semi-final 2. More importantly only thirteen days until the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest. At Eurovoxx we analysed trends from