Lto new edition (the 16th) from X Factor Live he’s about to leave (Thursday 27 at 9.15 pm on Sky Uno and streaming on NOW) and promises to be, not only a celebration of new rhythms and sounds of competing talents, but a great event in which the absolute protagonist must be “The growth path” of competing teams.
In short, we return a little to the origins: more talent, less show. Twelve budding artists contending for victory, divided into four teams (three per team), each does a head a judge. And the jury, aside Fedezit’s all new: Ambra Angiolinithe rapper Dargen D’Amico, Rkomi. The presenter is also new, Francesca Michielinwhich eleven years ago came to X Factor for win the fifth edition.
X Factor Live: the teams
Passionate and painful, the selection of talents imposed a rule on the judges: include a band per team. Here, then composed the group of twelve very young who are protagonists of this 16th edition of X Factor Live. All different (for sonority and personality), all full of dreams, all are taking their first steps in the world of music.
In the team of Ambra Angiloni there is the introspective Matteo Siffredi, 21 years (“TOmbra saved me on this path, even by myself», He said in the press conference for the presentation of the show,« we are doing a good job, a bit slow because of my fault, but then things settle down »). There is Lucrezia Fioritti26 years old from Bologna, that at audition shocked everyone with the unpublished dream Moleculeswinner of the Bianca d’Aponte Award as best text. And then there are the Tropeapop band from Milan born in 2017. The relationship with the judge Amber it doesn’t seem that easy. “We are struggling to find a balance,” both said Amber both i Tropea. “But the best relationships are born like this,” joked the actress, “building trust little by little.”
Fedez wants blood, the “musical souls” of Dargen D’Amico
Then there is Fedezhistorical judge of X Factor (its first edition was in 2014), which promised to be very bad (“There will be blood, we want to win”, he said at the press conference, “the table of X Factor it is a trench»). In his team he has, as a band, the Little men (Julian Loggia, bass and vocals, Zak Loggia, guitar and backing vocals, and Mattia Fratucelli, drums), Dada (Gaia Eleonora Cipollaro) And Linda Riverditi, 19 years old from Alba, considered the favorite of this X Factor.
X Factor Live, Fedez’s team. (X Factor Press Office)
The other new judge and famous rapper is Dargen D’Amico (the one with the sunglasses) who poses as the real talent scout. “VI would like the energy of the boys to reach the public, ”he said at the presentation of the Live, “It’s the first time for me. And I chose three types of music that immediately convinced me, I wanted three musical souls already defined and that fit together well“. And tra his “three souls” are the Disco Club Paradiso, Emilian band Indie-Pop dance formed by Leonardo Bergonzini (Leo Bi), by the drummer and producer Olmo Luca Stuppioni (Olmo), by the saxophonist Giacomo Semenzato (Jacky Sax) and the guitarist Simone Murineddu (Murri). There are Matteo Orsi, 25-year-old Roman, shy with a powerful voice, And Beatrice Quinta (real name Beatrice Maria Visconti), that in 2015 he made his debut a Sanremo Giovani with Paulette.
Rkomi focuses on artistic “credibility”
Then there is the team of Rkomisinger-songwriter who became popular at the last minute Sanremo with Unsurpassed. Serious and severe judge, he said to “Live a lot intensely” his new role. “I do not focus so much on competitiveness, I would like more than anything else to leave a teaching that goes beyond winning“. And the guys on his team thanked him because with him they are understanding what it means “Be credible”.
In his team there are the French Saints, Alessandro De Santis (lead vocals, guitar and ukulele) and Mario Francese (choirs, keyboards, synthesizers and electric bass) that offer a music made of contrasts (gloomy but joyful, solemn but light-hearted). He then has Giorgia Turcato, 21 years old from the province of Rovigo, he calls himself Joėlle, one for which music is reborn. And Jacopo Rossetto, in art Iakowith an introspective and lagoon style.
From left: Dargen D’Amico, Ambra Angiolini, Rkomi and Fedez. (Sky)
What we will see in the first episodes
The conduction is new, which now sees the singer born in X Factor, Francesca Michielin, and new program setting. Unlike previous editions, the first episode of X Factor Live is dedicated to cover And not to the unpublished ones. The reason explained it Eliana Guerra, who takes care of the program and is the production supervisor: «This year the music has had an acceleration of results and the discography is back on track after two years of stop. We advocate a kind of slow music, that is, a music made at zero mileage, slowly, like outcome of a path of growth and experimentation“. For this the boys in the race are called “Budding talents” and not yet “artists”. “Maybe they are artists and they will become,” he said Eliana Guerra“But now we are focusing on their training”.
The second one Live, scheduled for Thursday 3 November, is instead a themed episode, entitled “MTV generation“. The judges award their singers the iconic songs of a golden age of music on TV. An evening event dedicated to the celebration of artists, genres and video clips that made the history of the nineties. It is also an opportunity to celebrate MTV’s new commitments, starting with the next ones MTV EMA 2022 in Dusseldorf of 13 November.
Elisa and Dardust special guests of the early evening
Special guest of the first evening of the Live is Elisafresh from the success of his latest album Back to the future and from a summer on tour in the name of sold out. TO XF2022 is accompanied on the piano by Dardust. Together they preview a little taste of what, from December 1st, will be a new live show, An Intimate Night, tours in theaters conceived with a suggestive formation composed of guitar, piano and string quintet.
Hot factor and Ante Factor with Paola Di Benedetto
Also present in this edition Hot Factoralways led by Paola Di Benedetto, which leads the space dedicated to the hot comments of judges and contestants immediately after the end of the show. And the big news this year is theAnte Factoran appointment that precedes the episodes of Live and tells the emotions live from the backstage of X Factor. Always lead it Paola Di Benedetto.
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