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, consisting of Alessandro De Santis and Mario Lorenzo Francese. They won the sixteenth season of ''X Factor Italia''.

History

Founded as The Jab, they won Luciano Ligabue's Liga Rock Park Contest with their first single "", which allowed them to open his event Liga Rock Park in September 2016. In 2017 they participated at the 17th season of the Italian talent show . After this experience, they released the three songs "", "" and "". In 2019 they released the studio album and various singles between 2018 and 2021. Early in 2021, took part the Spaghetti Unplugged festival. In June 2021, they won the 32nd edition of the festival , which takes place in

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and was broadcast on

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, with the song "", co-authored with Dade ( Salmo,

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). The song was released as a single and was included in the soundtrack of the third season of the

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series '' Summertime'' the following year. In early 2022 the single "" (feat. , produced by Dade) was released, followed by "" (co-produced by Heysimo) in May 2022. In the summer they performed at the Ferrara Summer Festival, before

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. On 8 December 2022, they won the competition with their single "". On 12 December 2022, the band released the

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, which included their winning single, two cover songs performed during the show and three original songs; the album was supported by a club tour across the cities of Turin, Bologna, Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence. On 16 June 2023, released the single "", followed by a summer tour which included a date at the Sziget Festival in Budapest. On 19 December 2023, they competed in the final of with the song "". They were among the three artists selected to take part in the

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, with the song "".

Personnel

* Alessandro De Santis – vocals, guitar, ukulele * Mario Lorenzo Francese – keyboard, synthesizer, bass guitar

Discography

Studio albums

;As The Jab * (2019)

EPs

* (2022)

Singles

;As The Jab *"" (2016) *"" (2016) *"" (2018) *"" (2018) *"" (2018) *"" (2019) *"" (2019) *"" (2021) ;As *"" (2022) *"" (2022) *"" (2022) *"" (2023) *"" (2023)

References

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