Sanremo Music Festival 2003

Italian song contest (53rd edition)

Sanremo Music Festival 2003

Dates
Semi-final 1| 4 March 2003
Semi-final 2| 5 March 2003
Semi-final 3| 6 March 2003
Semi-final 4| 7 March 2003
Final| 8 March 2003
Host
Venue| Teatro Ariston
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)| Pippo Baudo
and Serena Autieri, Claudia Gerini
Musical director| Pippo Caruso
Artistic director| Pippo Baudo
Host broadcaster| Rai 1
Big Artists section
Number of entries| 20
Winner| Alexia
"Per dire di no"
Newcomers' section
Number of entries| 16
Winner| Dolcenera
"Siamo tutti là fuori"
2002 ← Sanremo Music Festival → 2004

The Sanremo Music Festival 2003 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2003), officially the 53rd Italian Song Festival (53º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 53rd annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 5 and 9 March 2003 and broadcast by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI). The show was presented by Pippo Baudo (who also served as the artistic director of the festival), assisted by Serena Autieri and Claudia Gerini.[1]

The winner of the Big Artists section was Alexia with the song "Per dire di no", while Sergio Cammariere won the Critics Award with the song "Tutto quello che un uomo". Dolcenera won the Newcomers" section with the song "Siamo tutti là fuori".[1]

In addition to musical guests, the guests of this edition also included Sharon Stone, Mike Bongiorno (eleven-time host of the festival), Valentino Rossi, Mario Cipollini, Enrico Montesano, Nino Frassica, Giorgio Panariello, Lino Banfi, Massimo Ghini. Nilla Pizzi received a career award and performed her hits "Grazie dei fiori" and "Vola colomba", with which she won the first two editions of the festival (1951 and 1952).[1]

## Participants and results

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### Big Artists

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Big Artists section [1]

Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)  | Rank  | Notes
"Per dire di no" - Alexia
(Alberto Salerno, Alexia) | 1  |

* Winner of the "Big Artists" section

"7000 caffè" - Alex Britti
(Alex Britti) | 2  |
"Tutto quello che un uomo" - Sergio Cammariere
(Roberto Kunstler, Sergio Cammariere)  | 3  |

* Mia Martini Critics Award
* Volare Award for Best Music

"Nessuno tocchi Caino" - Enrico Ruggeri & Andrea Mirò
(Enrico Ruggeri, Andrea Mirò) | 4  |

* Volare Award for Best Lyrics

"L'amore è" - Syria
(Jovanotti) | 5  |
"Oceano" - Lisa
(Mauro Malavasi, Leo Zandri, Andrea Sandri) | 6  |
"Morirò d'amore" - Giuni Russo
(Giuni Russo, Maria Antonietta Sisini, Vania Magelli)  | 7  |

* Volare Award for Best Arrangement

"Nel cuore delle donne" - Silvia Salemi
(Giampiero Artegiani, Silvia Salemi)  | 8  |
"Di un amore" - Antonella Ruggiero
(Antonella Ruggiero, Antonio Volpe)  | 9  |
"Fortuna" - Luca Barbarossa
(Luca Barbarossa)  | 10  |
"'A storia 'e nisciuno" - Nino D'Angelo
(Nino D'Angelo, Nuccio Tortora)  | 11  |
"Un giorno nuovo" - Cristiano De André
(Cristiano De Andrè, Oliviero Malaspina, Massimo Talamo, Stefano Melone, Daniele Fossati)  | 12  |
"Eri tu" - Fausto Leali
(Fausto Leali, Gatto Panceri)  | 13  |
"Cambierò" - Anna Oxa
(Marco Falagiani, Marco Carnesecchi, Anna Oxa)  | 14  |
"Quelli che non hanno età" - Eiffel 65
(Gabriele Ponte, Maurizio Lobina, Gianfranco Randone, Domenico Capuano, Gregory Colla)  | 15  |
"Non si cresce mai" - Bobby Solo & Little Tony
(Giancarlo Bigazzi, Bobby Solo, Gianni Gastaldo)  | 16  |
"Volere volare" - Anna Tatangelo & Federico Stragà
(Bungaro, Claudio Passavanti)  | 17  |
"Tonight" - Negrita
(Fabrizio Barbacci, Paolo Bruni, Franco Li Causi, Cesare Petricich, Enrico Salvi)  | 18  |
"Sarà una canzone" - Amedeo Minghi
(Amedeo Minghi)  | 19  |
"Fossi un tango" - Iva Zanicchi
(Loriana Lana, Aldo Donati)  | 20  |

### Newcomers

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Newcomers section [1]

Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)  | Rank  | Notes
"Siamo tutti là fuori" – Dolcenera
(Dolcenera) | 1  |

* Winner of the Newcomers' section[2]
* Winner of the Press, Radio & TV Award – Newcomers' section[3]

"Un piccolo amore" – Alina
(Antonello de Sanctis, A. Bettini, M. Telli, Alberto Cheli) | 2  |
"Lei che" – Zurawski
(Andrea Zurawski, Vince Tempera, M. Martellini) | 3  |
"Chi sei non lo so" – Verdiana
(V. Centrone, E. Giudizi, Max Minoia) | 4  |
"Bastava un niente" – Gianni Fiorellino
(Antonio Casaburi, Gianni Fiorellino) | 5  |
"Chiaraluna" – Daniele Stefani
(Giuliano Boursier, Daniele Stefani) | 6  |
"Lividi e fiori" – Patrizia Laquidara
(Giuseppe Romanelli, Patrizia Laquidara, Antonio Calò) | 7  |

* Winner of the Mia Martini Critics Award – Newcomers' section[3]

"Valeria" – Elsa Lila
(Luca Bechelli, Gianluca Mattei, Marco Marati) | 8  |
"Cento cose" – Roberto Giglio
(Roberto Giglio) | 9  |
"Vicina e lontana" – Jacqueline M. Ferry
(Jacqueline Maiello Ferry, Jean Marie Maiello Ferry) | 10  |
"Vorrei" – Daniela Pedali
(Depsa, Angelo Valsiglio, Luca Valsiglio, S. Monetti) | 11  |
"Amami" – Manuela Zanier
(Manuela Zanier, Paolo De Lazzaro, R. Russo) | 12  |
"Chiama di notte" – Allunati
(Enrico Nascimbeni, Alex Lunati) | 13  |
"E già" – Marco Fasano
(Marco Fasano, Antonio Annona) | 14  |
"Tre fragole" – Maria Pia & SuperZoo
(Gianni Colonna, Francesco Roccia) | 15  |
"Mi sento libero" – Filippo Merola
(Filippo Merola, Raffaele Di Pietro) | 16  |

## Musical guests

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Guests [1]

Artist(s)  | Song(s)
Peter Gabriel | "Growing Up"
Shania Twain | "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"
Rod Stewart | "These Foolish Things"
Des'ree | "It's Okay"
Juventus Football Club players  | "Il mio canto libero"
Carla Bruni | "Quelqu'un m'a dit"
Panjabi MC | "Mundian To Bach Ke"
Blue | "One Love"
Shaggy | "Strength Of A Woman"
Diana Krall | "Fly Me to the Moon"
Holly Valance | "Down Boy"

## Broadcasts

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### International broadcast

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Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

International broadcasters of the Sanremo Music Festival 2003  Country  | Broadcaster  | Channel(s)  | Commentator(s)  | Ref(s)

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Hungary  | MTV | mtv[a] |  | [4]

## Notes and references

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### Notes

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1. ^ Delayed broadcast on 29 March at 23:10 (CEST)[4]

### References

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1. ^ a b c d e f Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
2. ^ Gloria Pozzi (8 March 2003). "Vince Dolcenera, ma la gara dei giovani è bocciata". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
3. ^ a b "Sanremo: a Patrizia Laquidara e a Dolcenera i premi della Critica e di Radio e TV" (in Italian). Rockol.it. 8 March 2003. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
4. ^ a b "Szombati rádió- és televízióműsor-ajanlat" [Saturday radio and television programme announcement]. Nógrád Megyei Hírlap (in Hungarian). Nógrád County, Hungary. 29 March 2003. p. 4. Retrieved 7 September 2024 - via Hungaricana.

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* "La canzone portafortuna" (1969)
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