Italian national finals

Annual song competitions organised by Italy. It selected the country's representative for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

## 2008

### At Junior Eurovision

Michele Bravi performed 4th in the grand final, after Safael Mishiev from Azerbaijan and before Karina from Latvia. He wore grey jacket with blue jeans. The five joined backing vocalists that joined Hi Levelz on stage were three girls: Albanian singer Melisa Shoti, Maltese singer Francesca Zarb and Maltese singer Vanessa Gatt, and two boys: Italian singer Thomas and Maltese singer Norbert Bondin. The girls (backing vocalists) wore pink jackets and blue jeans and the boys (backing vocalists) wore black jackets and blue jeans. Bravi and his backing vocalists all used head microphones in performance. Bravi performed very well and drew a good reaction. He finished 11th with 64 points from 16 countries (12 from Malta, 10 from both Albania and San Marino, 4 from both Montenegro and Slovenia, 3 from both Romania and Switzerland, 2 from Austria, France and Germany, 1 from Finland, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine). This result was best until Vincenzo Cantiello's win in 2014 with an amount of 832 points (377 from televoting and 455 from juries).

## 2009

### At Junior Eurovision

Federica Carta performed 12th in the grand final, after Francesca & Mikaela from Malta and before Inessa Dumpe from Latvia. She wore black long floor-length dress. The three joined backing vocalists that joined Federica Carta on stage were two 15-years old girls: Albanian singer Fjoralba Ponari and Maltese singer Danica Muscat and one 14-years old boy: Albanian singer Jeton Gashi. The girls (backing vocalists) wore white long floor-length dress, while boy (backing vocalist) wore white suit with white tie. However, due to failing to regain her confidence in performance, Carta finished 18th with 39 points from 7 countries: 12 from Albania, 10 from Malta, 7 from Montenegro, 4 from France, 3 from Germany, 2 from Switzerland and 1 from Latvia.

## 2010

### At Junior Eurovision

Miriam Ayaba performed 16th in the grand final, after Senna & Anna from Netherlands and before Ajda Kovačič from Slovenia. She wore gold long floor-length dress with sequins. The two backing vocalists that joined Miriam Ayaba on stage were Albanian singer Sara Koçi and Maltese singer Whitney Cremona. Koçi wore red long floor-length dress with sequins and Cremona wore white floor-length dress with sequins. Ayaba finished 20th with 40 points from only 6 countries: 12 from both Albania and Malta, 10 from San Marino, 3 from Switzerland, 2 from France and 1 from Portugal. Ayaba's 20th place was the worst result in Junior Eurovision history, however, Italy at least always reached the top 20 so far.

## 2011

### At Junior Eurovision

Asia Sagripanti performed 15th in the grand final, after Michael Rice from United Kingdom and before Femke from Belgium. She wore red blouse with black jeans. At scene, she was alone. Sagripanti finished 16th with 66 points from 11 countries: 12 from Albania, 10 from Malta and San Marino, 8 from Switzerland, 6 from Slovenia, 5 from Montenegro, 4 from Czech Republic and France, 3 from Germany and Macedonia and 1 from Cyprus.

## 2015

### Round 1

The qualifiers were selected by 33% of Jury vote, 33% of Orchestra vote and 33% of Televote.

### Round 2

The 6 qualifiers sang together a medley consisting of the Italian Eurovision entry "L'Essenziale" (2013), "Gente di Mare" (1987) and "Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu" (1958). The 2 superfinalists were selected by 50% Jury and 50% Televote. Chiara and Martina Scarpari and Giovanni Sutera Sardo advanced to the Round 3.