The Sanremo Music Festival 1994 was the 44th annual

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual ...

, held at the

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, in the late February 1994 and broadcast by

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. The show was presented by

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, who also served as the artistic director, with singer

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and model Cannelle. Antonella Clerici hosted the segments with the juries. The winner of the Big Artists section was

Aleandro Baldi Aleandro Baldi (born 11 April 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Greve in Chianti, Florence as Aleandro Civai, blind, Baldi began playing the guitar as an autodidact while he was at the Reggio Emilia C ...

with the ballad "Passerà", while

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ranked second and won the Critics Award with "Signor tenente", an anti-

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rap song inspired by massacres of

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and Via D'Amelio.

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won the Newcomers section with the song "

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". After every night

broadcast ''DopoFestival'', a talk show about the Festival with the participation of singers and journalists. It was hosted by

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and Pippo Baudo with

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and Roberto D'Agostino.

Participants and results

Big Artists

Newcomers

Guests

Notes

*A Squadra Italia was a supergroup formed by

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, Mario Merola,

Jimmy Fontana Jimmy Fontana (13 November 1934 – 11 September 2013) was an Italian actor, composer and singer-songwriter. Two of his most famous songs are " Che sarà", performed also by José Feliciano with Ricchi e Poveri, and " Il Mondo". Biography Born ...

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Rosanna Fratello Rosanna Fratello (born 26 March 1951) is an Italian singer and actress. Biography and career Born in San Severo, Foggia, Fratello emerged as singer in 1969, when she took part at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Il treno" and obtained ...

, Lando Fiorini,

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, Giuseppe Cionfoli and Manuela Villa (

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's daughter).

References

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