5:00 PM Introduction
5:15 PM Kakawa
Kakawa is an explosive, hybrid music project born from the minds of three musicians: Frei Rossi (producer), Dario Giovannini (multi-instrumentalist) and Devon Miles (singer). Kakawa is the name of the plant of cocoa, that grows in Africa and South America, the lands that influenced and inspired the band. A whole world of sounds – from the songs of the initiation rites to the drum machines and synths, from guitars to samplers, from south to north, from past to present.
5:55 PM Invictus Band
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INVICTUS is a studio recording group founded in 2016 that mainly gathers second-generation Afro-Italian kids. The genre of this group is mainly Soukous and Congolese Rumba, commonly included in the World Music genre, enriched with their musical culture acquired in Europe. In a society that is tending towards globalisation, with its pros and cons, the intent of this project is to keep contact with its roots, culture, and native rhythms intact, adding a vein of creativity and pure spontaneity that each individual brings to each group project.
6:35 PM Federico Sacchi – Musicteller
6:50 PM Alessio Bondì
Alessio Bondì is a Sicilian singer-songwriter born in 1988. A true, pure-bred writer, his texts are hybrid: born from folk roots and mixed with contemporary rhythms and the exotic sound of his native tongue, the Palermo dialect.
7:10 PM The Sweet Life Society + Roy Paci + Too Many T’s.
The Sweet Life Society, one of the main Italian electro-swing groups, led by Gabriele Concas and Matteo Marini, play their repertoire with a unique style in which vintage melodies and Caribbean sounds join the beat of pure hip hop made in the USA, in a refined and surprising mix. On the Eurovision Village stage they will be the backing band for the whole day, with the addition of a 6-piece brass set.
During the show, The Sweet Life Society’s music meets the dancers of Edeen Entertainment in an hypnotic live show.
For the Eurovision Village, The Sweet Life Society will perform in a special live in which the eight members of the band will be accompanied by an exceptional wind orchestra and many guests, like Davide Shorty, the English rappers Too Many T’s, Roy Paci and many others.
John Bringwolves. Funky-blues guitar, electro-ambient synths and uptempo drum-machines. John Bringwolves’ live sets are a dreamy trip of improvisation, in which a mix between digital and analogic instruments leads through experimental sounds, samples from the past, street sounds and visual art.
Roy Paci. Born in Augusta (Syracuse) in 1969, Roy Paci is a trumpeter, composer, arranger and singer. He began playing the piano and the trumpet at a very early age and at 13 he was already first trumpet in a few big Sicilian traditional jazz bands, performing in the most famous jazz clubs in Italy. From 1990 he has undertaken several trips to South America, the Canary Islands and Senegal, developing his musical influences. He explored music, sometimes as a pioneer, and made a large number of collaborations and tours throughout Europe and overseas. Today Roy Paci is involved in musical, editorial, TV and film projects and supports charitable initiatives such as the Amnesty International and Pangea campaign against violence on women, the Emergency project for medical assistance to civilians in war areas and the superband Rezophonic, that helps AMREF in the building of water wells in Kajiado, Kenya.
Too Many T’s is an English duo formed by Ross Standaloft and Leon Rhymes. Their album South City was released in 2017 and reached more than five million streams. They are the leading band of positive-vibe hip-hop in the UK.
Dance by Edeen entertainment.
8:30 PM Davide Shorty + Beba (with backing band The Sweet Life Society)
Davide Shorty is a singer and songwriter, rapper and producer from Palermo. He combines his unmistakable soul voice with innovative sounds and melodies influenced by jazz and rap. In 2010, after many experiences on the hip hop scene in Sicily, he moved to London and started a new musical path. In 2012, he founded the band Retrospective For Love, with which he became known in the United Kingdom. In 2021, he won the second place among the new proposals of Sanremo Giovani with the song “Regina” earning three important awards – Dalla (awarded by the press room), Jannacci (awarded by NUOVO IMAIE), and Lunezia (for the best lyrics).
Roberta Lazzerini, stage name Beba, is a Turin rapper. Having taken part in many hip hop events, and created her first street singles, in 2017 she combined her talent with Rossella Essence’s to offer music with a distinctly feminine style. The themes dealt with in the texts, and up-to-date musical production, combined with an attitude that doesn’t mock men, immediately defined an imaginary and language that was inclusive and, so, unusual. In 2019, Beba became the first rapper to participate in the cult Real Talk show and the episode that starred her is one of the most viewed. Shortly after, she released a new single, “Male o bene”, in which she renewed her collaboration with Lazza who, this time, rapped with her. In summer, she also collected another first, participating in the “Machete Mixtape 4” and becoming the first woman of the cult saga of the crew founded by Salmo, Slait, and Hell Raton.
10:40 PM Mace dj set powered by Lavazza ¡Tierra!
Sustainability “talks the universal language of music” thanks to Lavazza and Mace (pseudonym of Simone Besussi), a DJ and one of the most important and recognised producers on the Italian music scene. The artist brings an exciting DJ set to the main stage of Eurovision Village – Friday, 13 May from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – accompanied by an evocative set inspired by The Blended Orchestra project. Starring on stage together with Mace, will, in fact, be some of the new instruments made of strings, water, cereals, and natural fibres. These were conceived for what you could call the soundtrack of the sustainability projects that Fondazione Lavazza financially supports, both independently and through public and private collaborations, in 19 nations on 3 continents with 31 projects benefiting 130,000 people.