The fourth show of the Sanremo Italian Song Festival took place last night.

All the 4 artists competing in the Giovani Category performed their entries, which were selected during the second and third night. Hence  a 50/50 deliberation via  a special panel of judges and televoting  determined the final ranking: Antonio Maggio won the competition with the song Mi servirebbe sapere, while Il Cile won the Best Lyrics Award with the song Le parole non servono più, knocked out from the competition during the first night, and Renzo Rubino won the Critics Award with the song Il postino (Amami uomo).

Antonio Maggio – Mi servirebbe sapere

Antonio Maggio won the 2013 Sanremo Festival in the Giovani Category

 Below you can find the list of the artists of the Giovani Category who competed last night, by classification:

The event, aired live by RAI, Radio Televisione Italiana, can be watched again here on the official RAI website.

Italy will announce their 2013 Eurovision representative during the last night of the Sanremo Festival, on Saturday 16 February. It is not clear yet if the singer will be selected from the Giovani Category, as it happened with Raphael Gualazzi in 2011, or from the Big Category, like Nina Zilli last year.

Stay tuned to Esctoday.com for the latest information on the 2013 Sanremo Song Festival.


Leonardo joined esctoday.com as an editor in December 2012, after covering the 10th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Amsterdam for the Italian magazine Reality, which he started writing for in 2009. Musician, singer, conductor, composer, arranger and lyricist, he has been deeply involved in music since he was a little child.