IS all ready for X Factor 2022. The kick-off of the new edition – the number 16 – of the Sky talent show set for Thursday 15 Septemberin the early evening at 9.15 pm on Sky Uno and streaming on NOW. New the jury and new the conductorfor an edition that promises to be “revolutionary”.
X Factor 2022the judges: three new entries and a return
This was stated by Sky itself on the occasion of the presentation of the schedules, held last July in Rome. Revolutionizing a talent show that has been on the air for sixteen years from top to bottom is not an easy task, but you can try it by intervening on judges, management and… .competitors.
As for the jurors, Ambra Angiolini, Dargen D’Amico and Rkomi are absolute rookies. To tell the truth, Angiolini’s name had already circulated in recent years, when the public clamored for the recruitment of the actress behind the counter.
“They always call me for impossible feats, maybe this one is”, he said at a press conference. «I auditioned and incredibly they said yes. I’m used to hurting when I’m put to the test “, she jokes,” this time I really wanted to be there. “
The judges of “X Factor 2022” and the presenter Francesca Michielin. From left: Dargen D’Amico, Ambra Angiolini, Rkomi and Fedez. (Virginia Bettoja / Courtesy press office Sky)
The debut of Dargen D’Amico and Rkomi
Dargen D’Amicosinger and producer born in 1980, was hit by a wave of great popularity thanks to the Sanremo Festival 2022, where he brought the hit Where do you dance. TO X Factor 2022 embodies the sympathy share. “When I signed I was convinced there were the judges of the past edition”, she jokes,
“For the net it’s a big bet, I would never have bet on myself. The key point for me is the music because I don’t know how to do anything else, so I focus on that. What better occasion to give the worst of me? ».
Also Rkomi participated in the event conducted by Amadeus with Unsurpassedbut he has another record on his side: his own Taxi driver was the best-selling album of 2021. “I would like to live it as if she were always a new beginning,” she confesses. «The team is really strong, I want to do well. I am looking for the desire to get naked in language, whatever it is ».
The judges of “X Factor 2022”: Dargen D’Amico, Ambra Angiolini, Fedez and Rkomi. (Getty Images)
Fedez: “A great challenge awaits us, but I know what we have done so far”
Three names, therefore, loved by the public, more and less young, which go alongside the veteran of the program. Fedez, in fact, returns to X Factor four years after the last edition and this is his sixth time. In his palmarès, a victory in 2014 with Lorenzo Fragola.
For the singer, «X Factor is a showcase to show who you are and what you can do. Talents have become this: a spotlight that can turn on the kids, the beginning of a path. The Italian discography is a fantastic sector, because it has told us that there are no finite artists, too old or who are unable to become international stars ».
On the return after four years he says: “I have always experienced the so-called departure from the program in a traumatic way. When the terrain was favorable for a return, I didn’t hesitate “. As for what the sixteenth edition will be like, he has no hesitation: «We have a great challenge, but I know what we have done so far. I strongly believe in this project. X Factor it was my television baptism and this year it’s 10 years for me toowas an important crossroads ».
Fedez at the “X Factor 2022” photocall. (Getty Images)
Francesca Michielin, the first presenter in the history of talent
Regarding the management, after last year’s experience with Ludovico Tersigni, chosen to replace Alessandro Cattelan, Sky has decided to focus on Francesca Michielin. An old acquaintance, dear to the talent show produced by Fremantle, to whom the singer owes the beginning of her career.
It was 2012, in fact, when the sixteen year old from Bassano del Grappa won the victory of X Factor 5. «It is a very strong emotion. I seem to relive what I experienced in his time “, he begins. «It’s been 10 years, but that of X Factor it is a stage that always makes you feel shivers ».
Then he continues: «It is wonderful to see this talent. They told me that the presenter must be super partes, but I struggle so much. I get very excited. I have a great team, four cool guys in front of me, and I’m very very happy ».
Francesca Michielin at the “X Factor 2022” photocall. (Getty Images)
The competitors and the selection stages of X Factor 2022
I merit to competitors, there are different voices and genres that the public will be able to discover from the first episode. Between bands, songwriters and performers with a delicate and, at the same time, intense tone, the level of competition is at least as high as in previous editions.
Thursday 15 starts with Auditionthat is the first phase of selection, will be broadcast for three episodes, until 29 September. After that it will be the turn of the Bootcamp – 6 and 13 October – in which the judges will have to choose who will pass the turn.
This phase will be followed by the Last Callthat is, the last step before the Live. The latter will start on 27 October from the Repower Theater in Assago and will end in December with the proclamation of the winner of X Factor 2022.
This year Allianz is X Factor Official Partner for the first time. And so theAllianz Cloud and the Allianz Tower in Milan will be venues of exception for the recording of Auditions, Bootcamps and the episode of Last Call.
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