Marco Mengoni was the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival in February 2013 and was selected by a jury as the Eurovision representative for Italy with his winning song L'essenziale (The Essential One).
Marco has had a very successful career in Italy since winning that country's version of The X-Factor. Already with three Number One albums under his belt, along with an EP that hit the top of the Italian charts, Mr Mengoni looks set to take Sweden by storm. His Eurovision song has already gone double platinum at home, spending several weeks atop the singles chart there.
Mengoni has described L'essenziale as a typical Italian ballad. It's certainly that, but it's also a very classy ballad that is full of charisma. It incorporates a powerful vocal that caresses the Italian lyrics and this has already brought praise in Eurovision-ville. His "easy on the eyes" looks won't hurt his chances with certain sections of the voting public either. 9/10.
I'm looking for a Top 5 placing on the evening of May 18 when Italy competes in the final. What do you think?
L'essenziale is included on Marco Mengoni's latest album #prontoacorrere.
The more I see Marco sing live, the more I think that Italy COULD have a chance of winning this year, although I think there is more competition from excellent live acts this year. He definitely could give Italy the 'best Big 5' accolade above Cascada and top 5 is this tracks likely position. It is a shame that this wasn't Italy's entry two years ago against Azerbaijan as it would have won.
ReplyDeleteI still think that Denmark and Norway are the acts to beat this year but along with the Ukraine and Germany, Marco has a chance of upsetting the odds...