A hopeful musician for Eurovision from Italy has trashed the stage after technical issues led to faults in his performance and the audience booed him.
Blanco, an Italian singer, was competing to be named as the act representing Italy when the Eurovision Song Contest takes place later this year. The Eurovision Song Content will be hosted in Liverpool this summer, with acts from around the world competing to win.
However, his rendition of his song “L’Isola Delle Rose” at the Italian music competition didn’t quite go to plan.
The performance descended into chaos when Blanco, known as Riccardo Fabbriconi, began smashing the stage as the audience at Sanremo jeered at the singer’s performance.
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A tweet from the ESC Spania account explained the odd behaviour in a tweet from the night. The tweet translated as: “Blanco returns to the #Sanremo2023 stage as a guest in this first serata, this time to perform his latest work, “L’Isola Delle Rose”.
“It seems that there have been technical failures, but the public has decided to boo him…”
Throughout the beginning of his performance, Blanco could be seen pulling at his in-ear headphones and shaking his head as technical faults mired his singing.
At one point he turned his attention to the fake rose garden on stage and began kicking down the roses and trashing the stage props.
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Blanco was competing to be the chosen performer for Italy when the country takes part in the Eurovision song contest this summer.
This year’s contest will be hosted in Liverpool, UK and is set to have significant shake up after irregular voting patterns were detected in several countries during last year’s event.
The major changes comes to the voting system in the wake of revelations that several countries traded votes at last year’s final in Turin, Italy.
Bosses have scrapped professional juries from the semi-finals, which means viewers will have the only say in who qualifies for the grand final.
Countries not competing will also be allowed to vote for the first time, as part of the new shake up.
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In the previous years, juries comprising of professional songwriters and figures from the industry have seen their scores combined with the results of a public vote to determine an overall winner.
However, those days are over after irregular voting patterns were detected in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino last year, according to contest organisers.
Those votes were subsequently discounted, and substituted with an aggregate score, calculated by means of results of other countries with similar voting records.
The new shake up will not apply to the final, where the jury votes and public votes still count together.
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