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Sanremo Giovani World Tour 2019 | Toronto

Winners of this year’s prestigious Sanremo Giovani song contest will give their only North American date during a world tour which will take them to Tunis, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Barcelona and Brussels. The tour is promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and RAI (Italian National Radio and TV station).

Einar, Nyvinne, La Rua and Deschema, accompanied by a group of musicians from RAI, will perform original songs, showcasing the best of Italian pop music.

Sanremo Giovani has been taking place in Sanremo since 1993. Its participants are young Italian singers who aspire to be selected for the Festival di Sanremo of the following year. The Festival di Sanremo, whose first edition took place in 1951, is the most important Italian song contest, and throughout the years has launched some of the most popular Italian singers and songs, among which, in 1958, Domenico Modugno and his song Nel blu dipinto di blu (better known as Volare).
Click here to download the press release.

Fri, 12 April 2019
The Royal Cinema
608 COLLEGE ST. TORONTO, ONTARIO
8:30 PM – 11:00 PM

Free admission*. Booking required: Click here.

 

 

 

Born in Cuba in 1993, Einar Ortiz has been living in the province of Brescia since the age of 9. Very early in life he became passionate about music and taught himself to play guitar and piano. After a brief period at X Factor, at the end of 2017 he lands at Amici, where he is appreciated for his unmistakable voice and his interpretative skills. The real debut of Einar, Centomila volte, is an exciting and unforgettable love song.

 

Deschema are Gianluca Polvere (vocals, keyboards), Nicola Facco and Giulio Cappelli (guitars), Emilio Goracci (bass) and Massimiliano Manetti (drums). In February 2017 the first EP bearing the band’s name is released, 6 titles with texts in Italian; the group is mainly concentrated on live concerts, with performances characterized by a strong scenic and sound impact. In 2018 the videoclip of their new single Nellie Bly is released. The band is also among the finalists of Arezzo Wave Toscana 2018 and wins the Dra-Contest, which opens the doors of Empoli’s Beat Festival. Later on they arrive first at Area Sanremo with their new song Cristallo, which will take them to Sanremo Giovani in December.

The members of La Rua are Daniele Incicco (voice and guitars), William D’Angelo (guitars), Davide Fioravanti (piano, accordion, glockenspiel), Nacor Fischetti (drums), Alessandro Mariani (guitars, banjo) and Matteo Grandoni (double bass, bass). Their first album is released in 2015, is called La Rua and comes after several nominations and victories at competitions and festivals such as Sanremo Social, Voci Nuove and Volti Nuovi di Castrocaro, AreaSanremo, Nuove proposte of the 2014 Sanremo Festival and several singles. They take part in the program Amici di Maria De Filippi until 2016, when they sign with Universal Music and release their second album Sotto effetto di felicità. They present the song Tutta la vita questa vita during the program Sarà Sanremo. The song will be the theme song of the 2017 Dopofestival, where they appear as be guests. In 2018 they release the single Sull’orlo di una crisi d’amore with Federica Carta, which reaches 5 million visualistions. La Rua participate in Sanremo Giovani with the song Alla mia età si vola.

Nyvinne Pinternagel, aka Nyvinne, is a singer-songwriter symbol of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism: polyglot, born in Luxembourg, she has German and Moroccan origins and lives in Italy. She plays and uses a variety of instruments: piano, guitar, bass, drums, ukuleles, mandolin, percussion, writes texts in French, English and Italian drawing on her experience in the best singer-songwriter’s tradition. In 2017 she appears on the stage of Sarà Sanremo her song Spreco personale. In the past she has opened concerts by Raphael Gualazzi, Negrita and Jovanotti at the Arena di Verona. Io ti penso is the first single of the new record project with Sugar.

 

  • Organized by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • In collaboration with: CHIN Radio Toronto - CHIN-FM