The Sanremo Music Festival 2001 ( it, Festival di Sanremo 2001), officially the 51st Italian Song Festival (), was the 51st 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
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,
province of Imperia
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, between 26 February and 3 March 2001 and broadcast by
Rai 1
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.
The show was presented by
Raffaella Carrà
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She was well known in Europe and Latin America as a result of her many ...
, assisted by
Megan Gale
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,
Massimo Ceccherini
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Biography
Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to t ...
and
Enrico Papi
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Tv
Rai
* '' Fantastico bis'' (Rai 1, 1988-1990)
* '' Unomattina'' (Rai 1, 1990-1994)
* '' La Banda dello Zecchino'' (Rai 1, 1992)
* '' Unomattina Estate'' (Rai 1, 1992-1993) ...
.
The winner of the Big Artists section was
Elisa
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with the song "
Luce (Tramonti a nord est)
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", which also won the
Mia Martini
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The group Gazosa won the "Newcomers" section with the song "Stai con me (Forever)".
The quality jury consisted of
Gino Paoli
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(who served as president),
Iva Zanicchi
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* Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi, a Danish university
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,
Margherita Buy
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After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her bre ...
,
Francesca Archibugi
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Life and career
Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family (her elder brother is the political and economic theorist Daniele Archibugi), she started ...
, Omar Calabrese,
Piero Chiambretti
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Biography
Born on 30 May 1956 in Aosta to Felicita Chiambretti, an 18-year-old single mother, he grew up in Turin. He later moved to Bologna, where he studied Arts, Music ...
,
Saverio Marconi
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Born in Rome, after his debut as a stage actor, Marconi had his breakout role in 1977 playing Gavino Ledda in the Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's drama fi ...
,
Alberto Testa Alberto Testa may refer to:
*Alberto Testa (dancer) (1922–2019), Italian dancer
*Alberto Testa (lyricist) (1927–2009), Italian composer and lyricist
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,
Giovanni Veronesi
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He started his career writing scripts for directors such as Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni, ...
and
Piero Vivarelli
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Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republ ...
.
After every night, Enrico Papi and Raffaella Carrà hosted ''Dopo il festival tutti da me'', a talk show about the Festival with the participation of singers and journalists.