The Castrocaro Music Festival, also known as Concorso per Voci Nuove, is an Italian musical contest which takes place every year in the town of

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, near

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, from 1957. The competition is exclusively reserved for new talents, and it had its maximum popularity from 1962 to early Eighties when, under the direction of

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, based on an agreement with the

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the top two finishers of the competition gained the access to the Sanremo Festival. Singers who were launched by the event include

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and

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