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San Remo Song Festival
The first edition of the San Remo Song Festival was held in 1951, a few years after the end of World War II. The festival was broadcast on the radio and there were only three singers. The audience kept on dining all the time. On the following year, the number of participating singers increased to five and then to ten in 1953. The Festival gradually gained prestige and the introduction of television in 1955 was pivotal in its definitive recognition. The following years are considered as the time of the great Italian singers and songwriters, such as Nilla Pizza, Teddy Reno, Claudio Villa, and Domenico Modugno, who won the Festival in 1958 with his world-wide famous song "Nel blu dipinto di blu" (also popularly known as "Volare").
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