Castrocaro Music Festival

The Castrocaro Music Festival, also known as Concorso per Voci Nuove, is an Italian musical contest which takes place every year in the town of Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, near Forlì, from 1957. The competition is exclusively reserved for new talents, and it had its maximum popularity from 1962 to early Eighties when, under the direction of Gianni Ravera, based on an agreement with the Sanremo Music Festival the top two finishers of the competition gained the access to the Sanremo Festival.[1][2] Singers who were launched by the event include Gigliola Cinquetti, Iva Zanicchi, Zucchero Fornaciari, Fiordaliso, Caterina Caselli, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, Franco Simone and Alice.[3][4] Winners of the singing kermesse who have subsequently become famous include singer-songwriter Giuni Russo (1967), Gigliola Cinquetti (1963), Alice (1971), Michele Zarrillo (1979), Luca Barbarossa (1980), Zucchero Fornaciari (1981), Fiordaliso (1981), Donatella Milani (1982) and Silvia Salemi (1995).

  1. ^ Felice Liperi (1999). Storia della canzone italiana. RAI-ERI, 1999. ISBN 8839710647.
  2. ^ Carlo Maria Lomartire (14 February 2012). Festival. Mondadori, 2012. ISBN 978-8852022661.
  3. ^ Enzo Cioffi (2010). Cambia la musica nell'Italia che decolla. Tullio Pironti, 2010. ISBN 978-8879374750.
  4. ^ Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.