'San Marino Song Contest' winner Gabry Ponte gets the ticket to Basel
08 March 2025 at 23:53 CET
Gabry Ponte
Gabry Ponte has won 'San Marino Song Contest' and will represent The Most Serene Republic at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest.
After a multi-round selection process, San Marino Song Contest presented us with 20 finalists for the main event on Saturday 8 March.
A jury vote decided on the winner - Tutta L'Italia will be San Marino's song for Basel, performed by Gabry Ponte.
The song will be performed in the Second Half of the First Semi-Final on Tuesday 13 May.
Gabry Ponte
The Grammy-nominated DJ and multi-platinum producer is one of the Top 3 most-streamed Italian artists globally, alongside Måneskin and Meduza.
Gabry is best known for producing the hit single Blue (Da Ba Dee) with his band Eiffel 65, which sold over 8 million copies and topped the charts worldwide. His solo projects have also been successful, with his tracks and remixes dominating European clubs.
His most successful collaborations to date include Thunder with LUM!X and Prezioso, Can't Get Over You with Aloe Blacc, Call Me with Timmy Trumpet and R3HAB, The Finger with Georgia Ku, and the summer 2022 hit We Could Be Together together with LUM!X and Daddy DJ.
Gabry boasts hundreds of live sets made around Europe; In 2023 alone, Gabry Ponte performed 90 times in 11 countries, getting over 700,000 people dancing.
The producer also has a prior connection to the Eurovision Song Contest! In 2022, when the Contest came to us from Turin in Italy, Gabry was a songwriter on the Austrian entry Halo by LUM!X feat. Pia Maria.
San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest
Belgrade would stage San Marino’s debut entry when they joined the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008.
Their first attempt at glory came courtesy of alt-rock group Miodi and their song Complice (‘Accomplice’) - it finished last in its Semi-Final, picking up two points from fellow minnows Andorra.
The Samarinese wouldn’t qualify for a Grand Final until 2014 when Valentina Monetta (on her third consecutive participation) took ballad Maybe to the Saturday evening spectacular where it placed 24th in a field of 26.
Despite superstar rapper Flo Rida appearing as a guest performer on the country’s 2021 entry (Senhit’s Adrenalina), it was Turkish singer-songwriter Serhat who delivered the Most Serene Republic’s best ever result when his track Say Na Na Na finished 19th in 2019.
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