Marco Mengoni

Marco Mengoni is an Italian pop singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of the Italian talent show X Factor. Since that he has sold over 2.8 million records in Italy, topping the Italian albums chart seven consecutive times and entering the Top 10 Italian Singles Chart fifteen times. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2013 (with "L'Essenziale") and again in 2023 (with "Due Vite). Mengoni has received several awards during his career, including two TRL Awards, nine Wind Music Awards, nine MTV Italian Music Awards, and a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award. In 2010 and 2015, he won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best European Act, becoming the first Italian artist to win that prize. In 2013, he also won the MTV European Music Award for Best Southern European Act. He was also a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 representing Italy with his track 'Due Vite' and placed fourth in this. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.