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Cantagiro was an Italian summer song contest held from 1962 to 1972 and 1990 to 1993. It featured three categories, A for famous artists, B for newcomers and C for groups. The creator of the competition was Ezio Radaelli. The name of the festival was a reference to the bicycle race Giro d'Italia, and, as the Giro, Cantagiro was organized as a stage race consisting of eleven or twelve daily stages, each set in a different city. A peculiar characteristic of the festival was that, while traveling between one stage and the other, singers were required to travel in an open car, to be at the disposal of the crowd of fans, otherwise risking fines or disqualification from the competition; accordingly the travel usually resolved into a huge crowd, with fans waiting their idols in every corner of the path.

The festival was the main subject of two musicarello films, Urlo contro melodia nel Cantagiro 1963 (1964) and La più bella coppia del mondo (1967).

Winners

Cantagiro

Nuovo Cantagiro

Il Cantagiro - Edizione De Carlo

References

1. ^ Felice Liperi (1999). Storia della canzone italiana. RAI-ERI, 1999. ISBN 8839710647.
2. Aldo Grasso (2000). Radio e televisione. Vita e Pensiero, 2000. ISBN 8834305787.
3. Gianfranco Salvatore (2000). L'arcobaleno: storia vera di Lucio Battisti vissuta da Mogol e dagli altri che c'erano. Giunti Editore, 2000. pp. 16–17. ISBN 8809018052.
4. Claudia Provvedini (16 October 2005). "Morto Ezio Radaelli inventore del Cantagiro e "patron" di Sanremo". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
5. Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari (2007). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-8884405036.

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