For a long time I had hoped for this good news, this year the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST will take place here in Italy, exactly in Turin, on  10, 12  and 14 May and Il Volo will be a guest on the evening of 12 May !!!!

It is wonderful news, not only for the great media exposure that this singing competition has throughout Europe and beyond, but it is also a prize to the skill and professionalism of Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca. It is also a great gift for all fans and all the people who knew and loved them during EUROVISION 2015.

The good news was given personally by Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio, during the evening news of RAI 1 on 27 April.

Here is the video and I will translate what was said.

WOMAN = Seven years ago, Il Volo triumphed at the Sanremo Festival with the song GRANDE AMORE, let’s listen to a piece again. (the song begins)

And good evening to IL Volo, here they are: Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio.

P + I + G = Hello, good evening, good evening everyone.

WOMAN = What a beautiful song.

PIERO = Thanks.

WOMAN = You won Sanremo, you sang it at Eurovision and now ???

PIERO = Tonight we are happy to announce here at TG1 that this year we will be guests at the Eurovision Song Contest. It will finally be held in Italy, after many years and we wish a great “good luck” to those who represent Italy: Mahmood and Blanco, it will be a great emotion for them.

WOMAN = It will be a very strong emotion, to listen to your song again, to be at Eurovision as winners (to televoting) and to come back even now.

GIANLUCA = For us it is obviously a great honor, it was a great emotion to be able to represent our country at Eurovision seven years ago, singing GRANDE AMORE in front of 200 million people, therefore certainly a great emotion that we will never forget, and therefore let’s say … (he turns to Ignazio)

WOMAN = Why are you looking at Ignazio?

IGNAZIO = Because the good fortune of three of us is that we help each other, in fact, I wanted to say that we will be at Eurovision exactly on May 12th.

PIERO = Exactly, on the evening of May 12th.

WOMAN = Listen, Ignazio, with you the somewhat philosophical closure, which makes sense.

PIERO = Right with him?

WOMAN = Right with him, I choose him, maybe it will be the mustache, the goatee that stimulates this question (Ignazio is pleased, and then he is serious).

Eurovision is a little bit the bridge of the music, the symbol of music that unites and that never like now, this bridge, this union, is needed.

IGNAZIO = Absolutely, in the edition where we participated, it was precisely EUROVISION BUILDING BRIDGES, which means “build bridges”, and not only cultural, but also in traditions, we were lucky enough to be able to share our culture, our tradition with so many countries of the world, thanks to EUROVISION and that is why we do our best wishes to Mahmood and Blanco, above all.

PIERO = We would like to remember that this year we will be back on tour, finally after these years and we can’t wait to get back on the stages.

WOMAN = You will sing your classics and the music of maestro Ennio Morricone, we are very happy.
Thanks for joining us.

P + I + G = Thank you

WOMAN = That’s all, we stop here.

Immediately after the news followed the tam, tam on all the various fan pages, it is useless to describe the happiness that this good news has unleashed here.

This beautiful video by Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero was also published on the EUROVISION Facebook page.

Reading the copious comments below this video, and almost all of them non-Italians, made me remember once again how much Il Volo had been much admired and appreciated by all of Europe and beyond.

Let’s review their video from seven years ago.

Even today I shudder to review this video, and immediately afterwards comes the anger for not winning.

Most of the comments under the video on the Facebook page, even today they say they had to be the winners of 2015, really amazing !!!

We also remind you that the last two editions of the Eurovision Song Contest have been undersized due to the pandemic and therefore this is the first post-pandemic edition. In Turin it is all a flurry of preparations. Listen and see how beautiful this video recorded in Turin, where many bands perform the theme song of Eurovision, in rock version, beautiful !!

 

Guys, it was a huge surprise, we can’t wait to see you in this beautiful context: EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2022.

We will all be tuned in on May 12th !!!

See you soon: Daniela

 

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