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Italy debuted in Eurovision at the inaugural contest back in 1956 and have claimed victory twice with Gigliola Cinquetti 'Non ho l'età' (1964) and Toto Cutugno 'Insieme: 1992' (1990). Italy took a hiatus from the contest after the 1997 competition and returned with a bang in 2011 - emerging as part of the newly minted "Big Five". In more recent yea...

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At the start of the six-hour final of the Festival di Sanremo, twenty-six acts were competing for the victory. The first couple of nights had been won by Ermal Meta, Annalisa and the duo Colapesce & Dimartino. Each of them won a different section of the vote on their night, meaning that the full result was still unclear and up in the air. When, aft...

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