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 The main one is that after 35 years the competition between "New Proposals" is withdrawn.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.

A week of December entirely devoted to young people

Thus, a tradition started in 1984 was interrupted, the year he triumphed Eros Ramazzotti with "Promised Land". In fact already in 2004 – this time presented Simona Ventura under the artistic direction of Tony Renis – the division between big and young was abolished, but only because of the refusal of the main houses record to participate in the competition, which in the end saw Marco Masini win the victory with "The Flying Man". Instead, in the next edition, according to Baglioni's intentions, the event will "double", actually last another week. In December 2018 Rai1 and Radio2 four special minutes of 45 minutes each to present the stories and songs of the 24 young performers; then, on the first nights of December 20 and 21, there will be the two finals, each with a winner, who, as mentioned, will be entitled to the February festival.

Two youngsters will be able to compete with established singers

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.