Preview Sanremo 2019, Claudio Baglioni eliminates the division between "new proposals" and "big"

The "artistic dictator" returns to Sanremo . After the success [VIDEO] of the last edition Claudio Baglioni decided to repeat the experience of last year at the head of the festival without merely repeating what has was done last February. think of something new to revolutionize the race. So, as announced by the singer in a post on Facebook, this year there will be significant changes in regulation. The main one is that after 35 years the competition between "New Proposals" is withdrawn. In its place, in December, a whole week devoted to new recruits, which will take the name of "Sanremo Giovani" from which two winners will be released, admitted by right to compete with the " grand " in the traditional fair, broadcast from 5 to 9 February 2019.

It is Baglioni himself who explains why he chose to alter so much the festival's mechanisms, separating the competition from the new singers, who must be aged 16 to 36, and give the two winners the opportunity to immediately compete with already established colleagues. For the artistic director it is a natural evolution of the festival, since the new performers have often brought the most interesting proposals. The Roman singer has always found discriminatory opposition between already famous artists [VIDEO] and new proposals, because he fixed some categories unrelated to the actual value of the songs, which should be measured by music the interpretation, the arrangement and the emotion aroused by the listener. In short, Baglioni even wants those who have early experience of the music scene to compete with others, until they can win the most coveted prize.

And also Rai decided to follow the artistic director in this street, with the hope of being able to discover new talents. In addition, looking at the record sales of the last edition, among the singers who did better, there is precisely Ultimo who with "The Dance of Uncertainties" had dominated among the young.