Why can the artist Ana Mena participate in the Sanremo 2022 Festival even if she is not Italian? The explanation comes directly from Amadeus
It is called the Italian Song Festival and it is precisely for this reason that many have wondered why Ana Menabeing Spanish, she can participate in the Sanremo Festival 2022.
Ana Mena is among the Big of the competition, after being among the top singers of the summer charts this summer.
After the news, many criticized her presence on the Ariston stage, given the fact that the singer is not Italian and given that competitors such as Francesco Mountain were excluded. Just the former tronista of Men and Women, after the exclusion of him and the news of the presence of the Spanish singer, has commented on Facebook:
But what is it? Are you Seri? But wasn’t it the Italian song festival and it assumes Italian singers? Mrs. Rai, with all the artists who are there, who try, who are committed and struggling, I find it not very respectful and out of regulation.
![Sanremo Festival 2022 Ana Mena](https://www.bigodino.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ana-Mena-1.jpg)
The conductor Amadeus he wanted to personally explain his choice, asking the public and competitors of the competition not to judge his choices.
The regulation of the Sanremo Festival does not include any rules regarding the nationality of the Big players. The artistic director can choose and invite, on the basis of unquestionable artistic and editorial evaluations, the artists with new songs. Not only that, Amadeus went on to say:
Sing in Italian. It is not the first case, in the past Luis Miguel in ’85, Lola Ponce won in 2008. We are happy that a successful Spanish singer pays homage to Italian music, obviously in Sanremo with an Italian song.
Ana Mena’s performance criticized by the public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T66UjRH3Jk
Ana Mena performed on the Ariston stage with her song “Two hundred thousand hours“. Beautiful and talented, the singer found herself overwhelmed by criticism.
![Sanremo Festival 2022 Ana Mena](https://www.bigodino.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ana-Mena-2.jpg)
According to some, his song would be too similar to the song Loving you by Gianna Nannini.
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