Angelina Mango: 10 Facts about Italy’s Eurovision 2024 singer

After a star-studded edition of Sanremo earlier in February, Angelina Mango has emerged victorious, and has confirmed she will take her song “La Noia” to Eurovision!

The Big 5 country has seen a streak of amazing results in Eurovision, and they hope they can snatch another first place in Malmö later this May!

But who is this incredible Italian singer? We have compiled 10 facts about Angelina Mango below!

Italy at Eurovision 2024: 10 Facts about Angelina Mango

1. Her father was Italian music royalty

Angelina Mango, is the daughter of musician Pino Mango, known as one of Italy’s top rock musicians, widely lauded as one of the top innovators of the Italian pop music scene with a career spanning five decades. 

2 Her mother fronted an iconic band

-While her mother is Laura Valente, better known as the lead singer of the Sanremo-winning band and former Eurovision participants Matia Bazar, leading the band for most of the nineties and featuring in Sanremo herself once.

3. She was in a band with her brother

With parents like those, it’s natural that music was in Angelina’s DNA. After her family moved to Milan, she had her first true foray into music, leading a band with her brother Filippo on the drums.

4. She’s a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist

But Angelina is not just a formidable leading vocal. From an early age, she learned to play the piano and the guitar as well!

5. She’s inspired by music from different centuries

As the daughter of an influential rock singer, it’s no surprise that Angelina’s musical influences include acts such as the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and Aretha Franklin. But not only that, she also expressed a deep interest and respect for 16th and 17th-century composers like Giovanni Gabrieli and Carlo Gesualdo.

6. She tried to win Sanremo before

Sanremo 2024 wasn’t her first attempt to feature in the storied Italian music competition. Three years earlier, in 2021, she attempted to enter the Sanremo Giovani portion for the Newcomers in Italy’s music scene with the track “La Tua Buona Colazione”, but it was not selected to feature in the final round.

7. She placed second in Amici

However, her meteoric rise to fame began in late 2022, when she was featured and earned second place in the twenty-second season of “Amici di Maria De Filippi”, a long-running show that is credited to have kickstarted the career of several Italian superstars, like Emma, Alessandra Amoroso, Irama, and The Kolors. 

8. Amici is where her first hit songs surfaced

Thanks to Amici, her original music and resulting EP Voglia di vivere quickly reached the mainstream and catapulted her star power. While her first in-show single, the eponymous Voglia di vivere, was remarkable, it was the triple-platinum-ranked “Ci Pensiamo Domani” that really put the name Angelina Mango in the zeitgeist, followed by the equally successful “Che t’o dico a fa'”

9. She’s a social media sensation

All this also rose her presence in social media, building her name and following to new heights. To date, she can boast more than 800K followers on TikTok and a great 1,4 million followers on Instagram.

10. She’s the first solo woman to win Sanremo in 10 years

One of the most notable facts of her in recent time is, of course, breaking the 10-year drought of female winners in Sanremo, as the first female-solo act to win the contest since 2014, and the first one all the way since 1964 to send her winning Sanremo song to Eurovision. Buona Fortuna!

"Muoio senza morire, in questi giorni usati
Vivo senza soffrire, non c'è croce più grande
Non ci resta che ridere in queste notti bruciate
Una corona di spine sarà il dress-code per la mia festa
Ah, è la cumbia della noia, mmh
È la cumbia della noia
Total"@angelinamango_ live… pic.twitter.com/yqpA6UjBf0

— Che Tempo Che Fa (@chetempochefa) March 17, 2024

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