SANREMO 2018: HERE ARE THE AREASANREMO QUALIFIERS - AMONG THEM JESC WINNER VINCENZO CANTIELLO

After Sanremo Giovani hopefuls (see previous post) it's time to reveal the ones who has made it out of over 800 submissions to the shortlist of 145, wherefrom a selection committee will choose 2 to Sanremo 2018 festival's newcomers category. The auditions take place before the end of the month and the artists will perform their new unreleased entry for Sanremo for them.

Also here some familiar names from Junior Eurovision winner Vincenzo Cantiello, winner of Festival della canzone Italiana in New York Rita Manelli and a few previous particiants from various talent shows. If qualifying for the festival is hard in Sanremo Giovani, this one's even harder. In total this year there has been nearly 1500 submission for the newcomers selection, and only 8 will make it all the way to Teatro Ariston next February....

Check the list after the jump....

1 MARCO ABETE

2 NANCY BRUNA ACCORDINO

3 LUDOVICA AMATI

4 (ELISABETTA ANSELMO) - MACBETH

5 ILENIA AGATA AQUILONE

6 MARTINA ATTILI

7 GIORGIA BAZZANTI

8 BRUNA BETTAMIO L

9 STEFANO BORRELLI –BORINHO

10 LUCA BRETTA

11 CARLOTTA CACCAMO

12 ARTURO CACCAVALE

13 ANNA CACOPARDO

14 LUCIANO CADDIA

15 (ALICE ROSALIA) - CAIOLI

16 (SALVATORE CALANDRA) - SCIALACOMO

17 FRANCESCO CAMIN

18 VINCENZO CANTIELLO

19 (CAMILLA EVA FRANCESCA) - CARAVAGGI

20 ALESSANDRA CARRATU’

21 CRISTINA PIA – CASCELLA

22 SHAMIRA CASU

23 CAROLINA CAULI

24 SILVIA CECCHINI

25 ANDREA CERRATO

26 SIMONA CERVELLO

27 ILENIA CERVELLO

28 CAROL CIRIGNACO

29 LORENZO CITTADINI

30 SIMONE COCCIGLIA

31 GIULIA CODA

32 SOFIA COLOMBO

33 ANNA COLTRO

34 MARIANNA COMBI

35 NIKKI COSTA

36 GIADA D’AURIA

37 ROBERTA DE GAETANO

38 GIULIA DE GRANDI

39 ANDREA DE PASCALIS

40 LAVINIA DESIDERI

41 VERONICA DI LILLO

42 MAGDALENA DZANAVAROVA

43 DIEGO ESPOSITO

44 FILIPPO FALDINI

45 MATTEO FAUSTINI

46 CARMELO FERLITO

47 ALESSANDRA FERRARI

48 ILENIA FILIPPO

49 (SALVATORE FINELLA) - IL TURISTA

50 DONATELLA FIORE

51 CARLOTTA FODDANU

52 MANUEL FORESTA

53 GIORGIA FRACASSA

54 TANIA FRISON

55 EMMA FRROKU

56 (CLAUDIA GALLANTI) - DIRA

57 MANUEL GALARDO

58 GLORIA GALASSI

59 (VALENTINA GALDIERO) - VALENTINA GALDI’

60 (ROBERTA GIALLOMBARDO) - ROBERTA GIALLO

61 ROBERTO GIANGRECO

62 CHIARA GIAROLI

63 MARIACRISTINA GIONFRIDDO

64 CINZIA GUARESCHI

65 EMANUELA INTELISANO

66 GINEVRA IVALDI

67 JASSMINE JABRANE

68 LIVIO LIVREA

69 MARIA ROSSELLA LONGO

70 (CATERINA LOPES) - KETTY LOPES

71 OLENA LUKASHYSHYNA

72 SILVIA LUPIS

73 ANDREA MAESTRELLI

74 ELISA MAFFENINI

75 MARTINA MAGGI

76 CAMILLA MAGLI

77 MARTINA MALAGNINO

78 GIANLUCA MALTEMPO

79 ARIANNA MANCA

80 ARIANNA MANCINI

81 RITA MANELLI

82 ELENA MANENTI

83 PAOLO MARASCIULLO

84 MICHELA MARIDATI

85 ROBERTA MENZIONE

86 FRANCESCO MICHIELAN

87 ANDREA MIETTA PELIGRO

88 LEONARDO MONTEIRO

89 FEDERICA MORRONE

90 ALESSIA NACCARI

91 STEPHANIE NICEFORO

92 ALESSIA MARIA PIA

93 MAURIZIO PALLOTTA

94 GIANCARLO PARISI

95 (GUERINA PETRILLO) ARINA

96 GIORGIO PICCIOLINI

97 GIORGIA PINO

98 ERIKA PIRAS

99 GIUSEPPE PUGLIESE

100 FRANCESCO PUZO

101 DANIELE RONDA

102 GIULIO WILSON ROSETTI

103 (ANNA MARIA RUBINO) ANNA RENE’ RUBINO

104 GIOVANNI RUVOLO

105 LUCA SANCES

106 ROSA SANTORELLI

107 FEDERICA SARTORI

108 ANDREA SERPE

109 VINCENZO SILVESTRI ROSSI

110 DONATO SOLAZZO

111 MARA SOTTOCORNOLA

112 RIAD SOUALA

113 SABRINA SPINIELLO

114 EMANUELE SQUILLANTE

115 SASHA SUSINO

116 TOMAS TAI

117 AURORA TETTO

118 VIOLA THIAN

119 VALENTINA TIOLI

120 DORALIA TOMASSETTI

121 MARTINA TORDI

122 RENATO TORRE

123 ELONORA ANNA TOSCA

124 LUCA TUDISCA

125 NICOLA VALENTE

126 CARLO VALENTE

127 ALICE VIGLIOLIA

128 ANDREA VINCENTI

129 ROSSELLA ZITIELLO

130 SYMON & MARIEL

131 BARUFFA

132 MALAVOGLIA

133 OSSO DI SEPPIA

134 LE STANZE DI FEDERICO

135 GAIA & LUNA

136 CROW’S WIND

137 BOSCO 21

138 NUOVO CORSO CAFE’

139 ETIMO

140 NOVEL

141 PEAK AVENUE

142 ARS SONORUM

143 IZA & SARA

144 HASHTAG

145 THEMA

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