For years, it has been no secret that there is considerable crossover between the Sanremo Festival and the Tenco Prize. This year, the overlap was greater than ever. In fact, at the close of the festival, Club Tenco issued a statement welcoming around fifteen artists who had also performed at its own event. However, the most striking element this year is that three of them ended up in the final five: a regular, Simone Cristicchi (fifth place); a new discovery, Lucio Corsi (second), who will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest and who impressed us at Tenco in 2021 with “the clarity of his songs, drawing on classic singer-songwriter traditions—glorious Dylan-esque riffs in particular—yet with a distinct identity and an exquisite interpretation”; and Brunori Sas (third), a relative newcomer by Sanremo standards, though active since 2010. Incidentally, their respective songs have a serious chance of winning the Tenco 2025 […]