We all assumed Valentina Monetta would be the eternal entrant for San Marino, but no: As the small country’s broadcaster SMRTV announced today, Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini will sing the Sammarinese entry in Vienna!
Neither of the members of this duo are unknowns to the Eurovision world. Michele Perniola was San Marino’s first entrant at Junior Eurovision, singing “O-o-O Sole intorno a me” in Kiev last year, as well as being the Sammarinese jury spokesperson at ESC 2014. And Anita Simoncini just recently represented her country at Junior Eurovision as part of The Peppermints. Her 16th birthday falls between JESC 2014 and ESC 2015, a set of circumstances that means this might very well be the first time a country sends a JESC entrant to “adult” Eurovision in the same season!
The song to be sung by Michele and Anita will be announced at a later date. Some kind of High School Musical or Glee number would make a lot of sense – or, since the two of them actually are teenagers, maybe the microstate will revisit the social media theme it used so memorably in 2012.
At the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Valentina Monetta – on the third of her three consecutive attempts – finally achieved the unbelievable, taking San Marino to the grand final for the very first time with her Ralph Siegel-penned hymn “Maybe”.
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