Francesco Gabbani wins Sanremo 2017 and goes to Kyiv

After five nights of competition, we have finally found the winner of the Sanremo Festival. Francesco Gabbani is the winner of the historical music festival and, as RAI has confirmed, the Italian representative in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

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Gabbani will be their artist to Kyiv with the same song Francesco won in Sanremo Occidentalis Karma. This being Sanremo, the fun song is sung in Italian but contains a few lines in English as well as the occasional phrase in Latin, Hindi and, it would seem, even ancient Greek.