ITALY: MAHMOOD WINS SANREMO 2019 AND GOES TO EUROVISION

Alessandro Mahmoud aka Mahmood (26) has won the 69th Sanremo festival and  represants Italy in the 2019 Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv Israel with his Soldi. Confirmed in the press conference. The song includes also some lyrics in Arabic, as his father is Egyptian (and mother Sardinian). He got a ticket to the festival by winning Sanremo Giovani aka Newcomers in December. He started