Sanremo Music Festival 1971
21st annual Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival 1971 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1971), officially the 21st Italian Song Festival (21º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 21st annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 25 and 27 February 1971. It was organised by the company Due Erre and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The shows were presented by Carlo Giuffrè and Elsa Martinelli.
It was the last edition in which each competing song was performed twice by two different artists. The winning song was "Il cuore è uno zingaro" written by Franco Migliacci and Claudio Mattone, and performed by both Nicola Di Bari and Nada.
Format
In December 1970, the municipality of Sanremo announced they would assign the organisation of the festival's 1971 edition to the company Due Erre, owned by Gianni Ravera and Ezio Radaelli, for the second consecutive year. They chose to hold the event in its usual venue, the ballroom of the Sanremo Casino, between 25 and 27 February 1971. Eugenio Guglielminetti was chosen as the stage designer.
Voting system
The vote in each show was conducted by twenty-three juries formed by newspapers across Italy, each with twenty-five members located in their respective editorial offices. Forty percent of jury members were required to be under the age of 20.
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