# Sanremo Music Festival 1983

The Sanremo Music Festival 1983 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1983), officially the 33rd Italian Song Festival (33º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 33rd annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 3 and 5 February 1983 and broadcast by Rete Uno. The show was hosted by the actor Andrea Giordana, assisted by the trio of presenters of the musical show Discoring, Isabel Russinova, Anna Pettinelli, Emanuela Falcetti. Daniele Piombi and Roberta Manfredi hosted the segments from the Sanremo Casino, where a number of foreign guests performed.
The winner of the festival was Tiziana Rivale with the song "Sarà quel che sarà", while Matia Bazar won the Critics Award with "Vacanze romane".

## Participants and results

Big Artists section :
| Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s) | Rank | Notes |
| "Sarà quel che sarà" – Tiziana Rivale (Roberto Ferri, Maurizio Fabrizio) | 1 | Winner of the "Big Artists" section |
| "Volevo dirti" – Donatella Milani (Donatella Milani, Daniele Pace, Adelmo Fornaciari) | 2 | |
| "Margherita non lo sa" – Dori Ghezzi (Oscar Prudente, Oscar Avogadro) | 3 | |
| "Vacanze romane" – Matia Bazar (Carlo Marrale, Giancarlo Golzi) | 4 | Critics Award |
| "L’italiano" – Toto Cutugno (Cristiano Minellono, Toto Cutugno) | 5 | |
| "Oramai" – Fiordaliso (Claudio Daiano, Angelo Valsiglio, Depsa) | 6 | |
| "Complimenti" - Stefano Sani (Luigi Albertelli, Adelmo Fornaciari) | 7 | |
| "La mia nemica amatissima" - Gianni Morandi (Mogol, Gianni Bella, Gianni Morandi) | 8 | |
| "Working Late Tonight" - Amii Stewart (Mario Capuano, Giosy Capuano, Simon Boswell) | 9 | |
| "È la vita" - Marco Armani (Marco Armenise, Paolo Armenise) | 10 | |
| "Shalom" - Giuseppe Cionfoli (Giuseppe Cionfoli) | 11 | |
| "Avrò" - Giorgia Fiorio (Sergio Menegale, Raffaele Ferrato, Piero Soffici) | 12 | |
| "Casco blu" - Flavia Fortunato (Massimiliano Di Carlo, Paolo Masala, Elio Palumbo, Marcello Ramoino) | 13 | |
| "Eterna malattia" - Bertín Osborne (Enzo Malepasso, Luigi Albertelli) | 14 | |
| "Amare te" - Riccardo Azzurri (Riccardo Azzurri) | 15 | |
| "Primavera" – Sandro Giacobbe (Sandro Giacobbe, Luigi Albertelli) | 16 | |
| "Abbracciami amore mio" – Christian (Mario Balducci) | 17 | |
| "Una catastrofe bionda" – Marco Ferradini (Roberto Giuliani, Marco Ferradini, Cheope) | 18 | |
| "Stiamo insieme" – Richard Sanderson (Adelmo Fornaciari) | 19 | |
| "Nuvola" – Zucchero (Adelmo Fornaciari) | 20 | |
| "Mi sono innamorato di mia moglie" – Gianni Nazzaro (Daniele Pace, Michele Russo) | 21 | |
| "Notte e giorno" – Barbara Boncompagni (Daniele Pace, Angelo Valsiglio) | 22 | |
| "Movie Star" – Passengers (Celso Valli, Angelo Piccarreda) | 23 | |
| "Arriva arriva" – Viola Valentino (Maurizio Fabrizio, Vincenzo Spampinato) | 24 | |
| "Vita spericolata" – Vasco Rossi (Vasco Rossi e Tullio Ferro) | 25 | |
| "Cieli azzurri" – Pupo (Enzo Ghinazzi, Stefano Saturnini) | 26 | |
| "Dammi tanto amore" – Daniela Goggi (Maurizio Bassi, Enzo Ghinazzi) | Eliminated | |
| "Donna sola" – Pinot (Ivano Michetti) | Eliminated | |
| "E la neve scende" – Brunella Borciani (Luigi Albertelli, Adelmo Fornaciari) | Eliminated | |
| "Fammi volare" – Patrizia Danzi (Cavaros, Michele Violante) | Eliminated | |
| "Il mio treno" – Gloriana (Silvio Subelli, Giancarlo Nisi, Guido Natili, Silvio Aloisio, Fabio Anfuso) | Eliminated | |
| "Nuovo amore" – Nino Buonocore (Nino Buonocore) | Eliminated | |
| "Oppio" – Sibilla (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Mostert) | Eliminated | |
| "Scatole cinesi" – Alessio Colombini (Adelio Cogliati, Alessio Colombini) | Eliminated | |
| "Solo con te" – Manuele Pepe (Manuele Pepe) | Eliminated | |
| "1950" – Amedeo Minghi (Gaio Chiocchio, Amedeo Minghi) | Eliminated | |

## Guests

Guests :
| Artist(s) | Song(s) |
| Ph.D. | "I Didn't Know" |
| Raffaella Carrà | "Soli sulla luna" "Ahi" |
| Pippo Franco | "Chì chì chì cò cò cò" |
| Domenico Modugno | "Io vivo qui" |
| Saxon | "Nightmare" |
| Commodores | "Reach High" |
| Peter Gabriel | "Shock the Monkey" |
| Toquinho | "Acquarello" |
| Nino Manfredi | "Canzone pulita" |
| Frida | "I Know There's Something Going On" |
| John Denver | "Annie's Song" |
| Marek i Wacek | "Medley" |
| Scorpions | "Lonely Nights" |
| KC and the Sunshine Band | "Said You'd Gimme Some More" |
| Roberto Benigni | "Via con me" |

## Broadcasts
### Local broadcast

All shows were broadcast live on Rete Uno.

### International broadcast

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 1981 :
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | TV Beograd 1 | | |