SAN MARINO CALLING…on GlitterBeam!

GlitterBeam is pleased to announce the broadcast of the final of ”Una Voce Per San Marino” with english commentary.

Una voce per San Marino is the Music Festival to select the Sammarinese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Prior to the 2024 contest, San Marino has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirteen times since its first entry in 2008.
The Sammarinese national broadcaster, San Marino RTV (SMRTV), broadcasts the event within the country and organises the selection process for its entry.

Una voce per San Marino 2024 is the third edition of the national selection format developed by SMRTV and Media Evolution S.r.l. to determine the Sammarinese entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. The final will take place on 24 February 2024 and will see eight established artists and eight newcomers (one being from San Marino) compete.

A jury vote will determine the qualifiers from each phase of the competition and ultimately the winner.

For the first time, this year, the final will also be broadcasted live on GlitterBeam with english commentary.

THE RULES

The selection is taking place in three stages: an audition stage between 10 November 2023 and 20 January 2024, five semi-finals on 15 and 16 February 2024 followed by a second chance round plus one semi-final reserved to Sammarinese nationals, and a final on 24 February 2024. Applications were open between 10 October 2023 and 14 January 2024 for emerging artists to take part in the audition phase, where about 80 entries will qualify to the semi-finals, while established artists were directly invited to the final by Media Evolution S.r.l. There were no restrictions on the nationality of the performer nor the language of the song.

As of 10 January 2024, 699 submissions had been received from 31 countries. In addition to the regular selection process, SMRTV later launched a collaboration with London-based music tech startup Casperaki, named The San Marino Sessions, to determine a finalist through the help of artificial intelligence.

Starting on 20 November 2023 and until the final of 2 March 2024, SMRTV is airing a 15-minute daily broadcast presenting the participating artists, hosted by rapper Irol.

Auditions
The casting stage of Una voce per San Marino is taking place at San Marino Outlet Experience in four rounds: the first from 10 to 12 November 2023, the second from 1 to 3 December 2023, the third from 12 to 14 January 2024 and the fourth from 18 to 20 January 2024.

Semi-finals
The semi-finals of Una voce per San Marino will take place at the Sala Polivalente Little Tony in Serravalle on 15 and 16 February 2024.

The San Marino Sessions
The San Marino Sessions is an experimental selection launched by SMRTV in collaboration with Casperaki to determine one of the finalists of Una voce per San Marino 2024. From 27 November 2023 until January 2024, interested artists could submit anything from short recordings to complete compositions, with the platform helping to enhance them. By 9 January 2024, a committee selected the ten best suggestions to take part in a songwriting camp hosted by producers TommyD and Stefan Moessle in London between 18 and 21 January 2024, after which the jury of Una voce per San Marino, helped by feedback from the public, will review the songs created there and select one to qualify for the final.

German singer Marie Wegener (winner of the 15th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar) confirmed to have been selected to take part in the songwriting camp.

Final
The final of Una voce per San Marino will take place at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana on 24 February 2024.