It’s the smallest state participating in this year’s Eurovision, but the one with the largest selection of participants. We are of course speaking about San Marino and their selection show San Marino Song Contest 2025 (formerly known as Una Voce per San Marino), which now has its grand final line-up.
After over thousands of applications, several months of auditions, semi-final shows and a second chance round, SMRTV announced the competitors set to appear at the show’s grand final. The line-up consists of twenty artists.
From each semi-final, one artist advanced to the final and three to the second chance round. This meant that King Foo, CuRLi, Angy Sciacqua, Haymara, Besa and TESLENKO earned a direct spot in the final this way.
Eurovision fans might remember Besa as Albania’s Eurovision 2024 representative, while TESLENKO withdrew from the Ukrainian selection earlier this year after making it to the longlist.
Sammarinese artist Paco joined the final as a seventh finalist after winning the semi-final that only included Sammarinese artists. Meanwhile, The Rumpled, Giacomo Voli, Questo e Quello and Taomo earned their places through winning the second chance round.
Nine “bigger” artists qualified directly for the final. These include several Italian music stars, most notably Gabry Ponte. His entry consists of the song “Tutta l’Italia” – which was the official theme tune for the Sanremo Music Festival last month. The song received widespread airplay in Italy and charted in the country’s FIMI charts.
On 8 March, SMRTV will hold the final of San Marino Song Contest. The final will be broadcast live from the Theatre Nuovo, the largest theatre in the microstate in the town of Dogana. San Marino will choose its representative through jury vote. The jury will consist of five members.
San Marino Song Contest 2025: Grand final line-up
- Angy Sciacqua “I”
- Besa “Tiki”
- Bianca Atzei “Testacoda”
- Boosta “BTW”
- CuRLi “Juliet”
- Elasi “Lorella”
- Gabry Ponte “Tutta l’Italia”
- Giacomo Voli “Ave Maria”
- Haymara “Tómame las manos”
- King Foo “The Edge of the World”
- Luisa Corna “Il giorno giusto”
- Marco Carta “Solo fantasia”
- Paco “Until the End”
- Pierdavide Carone “Ma vuoi sposare?”
- Questo e Quello “Bella Balla”
- Silvia Salemi “Coralli”
- Taoma “NPC”
- Teslenko “Storm”
- The Rumpled “You Get Me So High”
- Vincenzo Capua “Sei sempre tu”
Who will you support next week? Do you already have a favourite from the contestants in the final line-up? Let us know in the comments down below!
I can’t wait to finally hear that singer of Gabry Porte (cause it’s not himself) performing Tutta L’Italia live, even tho I’ve absolutely had enough of this song on Sanremo’s week (it stays in my head and annoys me ever since)! He did playback at Sanremo’s Final so I suspect him not being very good live. Although I’m afraid that might not prevent San Marino from still choosing him. If they do, they officially have 0 national pride whatsoever.
I support Tutta L’Italia. This song is on repeat
If Gabry wins will he change it to “tutta l’Europa”? Because I don’t see the point and logic in representing a country by singing how great another country is. But then again I don’t see the logic sending a Spanish band singing in Spanish to represent you, so who knows?
Do you see sence in Estonia singing about Italia in italian?
I think what San Marino should do is have regional rounds (i.e. Balkans, Nordics) and the top from each regional round qualify for the final because it would shake up the standings. If they keep doing this system that they have now, they won’t have very quality entries and won’t qualify as often.
FYI — San Marino streams the show online for free and no need to sign up for anything or mess around with VPN settings at Live San Marino RTV
I do really believe that CuRLi’s song, Juliet is the best. One, because it is just awesome. Two, because I have a friend named Juliette and she is awesome. 3, because my family is doing a bet on who is going to win SMSC 2025, and I chose that.
So basically, all of the Sammarinese are competing?
San Marino sends a song about Italy, Sweden about Finland, Estonia about Italy, Finland about Germany!
Just heard the Estonian song…and I am beyond appalled.
This year is really interesting. I have just heard some snippets of half of the contestants but I almost dare to say that if
Gabry Ponte “Tutta l’Italia” , Pierdavide Carone “Ma vuoi sposare?” or Luisa Corna “Il giorno giusto” wins, it might even beat Italy this year. That would be something. A contest within the contest. However staging is still unknown and might impact but still. Exciting
I have only heard one of those songs. It would be wonderful if the jury selects Pierdavide Carone’s song. His songs are beautiful and Eurovision would be a great showcase.
CURLI CURLI CURLI!
i am not a fan of the favourites to win but i do love the selection i prefer it to melfest and melodi grand prix come at me haters i dont care
TUTTA L’ITALIA TUTTA L’ITALIA TUTTA L’ITALIA
On piano
https://youtu.be/TD245jwMp10?si=cBlW0ehpUlWeQ4el
Roll on another bad choice!
There is no need for a country of any size to have a selection of this scale. Nobody understands how it works!
I’d rather they waited until now and just released the 16 acts and have one night (a mixture of new, established, local from SM and Sanremo left overs)
Think of the cash left over to spend on developing a decent show both at ESC and on their own selection.
Honestly, I think the scale is because San Marino is small. Doing live tests of the artists behind closed doors to get a shortlist together is still costly. Broadcasting your auditions means you get some tv for that money and the associated ad revenue to take the edge off. Thats why Moldova (and sometimes Malta) does this too. They ran the numbers and decided it was cost effective.
Well… I wanted to”Tutta L’Italia” at Eurovision this year, and now thanks to San Marino it has a 1 in 20 chance of actually happening 😀
This is all your fault.
8th of March , Jonas! Remember the date )))
🙂
Oh boy, Tutta l’Italia is one big love! I hope it will win and crush everybody else in Basel!
Song called “All of Italy”, representing San Marino in Switzerland, sang by a member of band named after Eiffel Tower. Yeah, that would be iconic
My winner already no matter what
They should perform it in Scottish kilts and bullfighter jacket
Haha, don’t give them ideas; they might read this blog and use them 😀
Honestly, I just prefer CuRLi, because I have a friend named Juliet?
Tutta l’Italia !
either Luisa Corna, Marco Carta or Pierdavide Carone for me personally
this years NF is miles better than last years
Luisa especially has such a gem of a entry, 59 years old but she is so youthful
San Marino should withdraw, they always compete and send weak acts. Except Adrenalina, all their songs were junk. Purely my opinion, but they could sens the best they had each year.
I rather admire their tenacity 🙂
They rarely qualify, if they rather spend money for the participation fee without even qualifiying, that’s their call…
I don’t think the yearly participation fee will bankrupt the entire country. They will send a banger one day, and we will all be rooting for them.
They’ll send a banger this year 🙂
So many unknown artists do San Marino auditions but why? Paying to do an audition and just get your name out there with a bad song to what end?? It doesn’t seem like it’s a jump start to their careers.
Internal selection for San Marino led to better results. They do at least have a national selection unlike other b roa dcas ters that have left the contest.
I still dont get how San Marino in Eurovision works. Even if all citizens of San Marino watched it would still just be around 30.000.
And this national selection they keep running seems more like a money laundering business of some than actually giving a good quality entry to San Marino. Why they dont just pick internal and find a really good San Marinese talent i will never know
5 semis for such a small country is so ridiculous, there are so many bad songs or so, but so many singers (whom probably only heard from their mothers that they can sing…) that it is painfull to hear
Size ain’t everything! Allegedly
Tutta L’San Marino
Ahahahahahaha
TUTTA L’ITALIA GOING TO BASEL
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yes yes and YES!!!!!!!
It is one way to fight the post sanremo depression though hahaha