The Sanremo Music Festival 2003 ( it, Festival di Sanremo 2003), officially the 53rd Italian Song Festival (), was the 53rd 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
Teatro Ariston
The Ariston Theatre ( it, Teatro Ariston) is a cinema in Sanremo, Italy. It has been the venue of the annual Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the ...
in
Sanremo
Sanremo (; lij, Sanrémmo(ro) or , ) or San Remo is a city and comune on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination on the Italian Rivie ...
,
province of Imperia
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, between 5 and 9 March 2003 and broadcast by
Rai 1
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.
The show was presented by
Pippo Baudo
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, assisted by
Serena Autieri
Serena Autieri (born 4 April 1976) is an Italian actress and singer. She co-hosted the 53rd presentation of the annual Sanremo Music Festival in 2003, along with Pippo Baudo and Claudia Gerini.
Career
Serena Autieri was born in Naples, Campani ...
and
Claudia Gerini
Claudia Gerini (; born 18 December 1971) is an Italian actress and singer.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Gerini won the National Competition of Miss Teenager in 1985. She got her first part in a film, ''La ballata di Eva'', at 14. She subsequ ...
. Baudo also served as the artistic director of the Festival.
The winner of the Big Artists section was Alexia with the song "
Per dire di no
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".
Sergio Cammariere
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Career
After a long career as a niche musician distinguished by his collaboration with the poet and singer-songwriter ...
won the
Mia Martini
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Dolcenera
Emanuela Trane (born 16 May 1977), stage name "Dolcenera" , is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress.
She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy o ...
won the "Newcomers" section with the song "Siamo tutti là fuori".
in addition to musical guests, the guests of this edition also included
Sharon Stone
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,
Mike Bongiorno
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,
Valentino Rossi
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,
Mario Cipollini
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,
Enrico Montesano
Enrico Montesano (born 7 June 1945) is an Italian actor and showman.
Career
Montesano comes from a family involved in theatre, and he made his debut in 1966 in a show named ''Humor nero'', alongside of Vittorio Metz. Later he became a very ...
,
Nino Frassica
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Biography and career
Born in Messina, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as ...
,
Giorgio Panariello
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Biography
Born in Florence to a father of Campanian origin, he raised in Cinquale, a seaside town in the pro ...
,
Lino Banfi
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Biography
He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Li ...
,
Massimo Ghini
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He has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Gabriele Lavia, among others.
He has been married to actress Nancy Brilli, and is the father ...
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Nilla Pizzi
Nilla Pizzi, stage name of Adionilla Pizzi (; 16 April 1919 – 12 March 2011), was an Italian singer and actress.
Born in Sant'Agata Bolognese, she was particularly famous in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. She won the first edition of the ...
received a career award and performed her hits "Vola colomba" and "Grazie dei fior".