Måneskin: 5 Things About The Italian Band Nominated For Best New Artist At The 2023 Grammys

• Måneskin is an Italian stone set known for competing connected X Factor and winning Eurovision.
• The set released its 3rd workplace album, Rush!, successful January 2023.
• Måneskin is nominated for Best New Artist astatine the 2023 Grammy Awards

Måneskin could extremity up walking distant from the 65th Annual Grammy Awards with a caller chunk of gold. The set — made up of vocalist Damiano David, 24, bassist Victoria De Angelis, 22, guitarist Thomas Raggi, 22, and drummer  Ethan Torchio, 22 — are nominated for Best New Artist astatine the Feb. 5 awards show.

If they don’t triumph the Grammy, they’ll inactive person a bully 2023. The radical conscionable released RUSH!, their 3rd workplace album. They’ve been connected the screen of Alternative Press, proceed to person high-profile tv appearances, and – arsenic fans anticipation – mightiness deed the roadworthy to play their caller songs for each their adoring fans. Before each that happens, here’s what you request to cognize astir the group.

They Won X Factor

The set initially got noticed aft competing connected the Italian mentation of The X Factor. The quartet initially came unneurotic portion attending precocious schoolhouse successful Rome successful 2016. After respective attempts successful euphony competitions, including the section euphony contention Pulse, they tried their changeable astatine The X Factor Italy’s 11th play successful 2017. Måneskin came successful 2nd spot aft Lorenzo Licitra.

Maneskin performs. (Shutterstock)

They’re Italian, But Their Name Is Danish

Although the radical is Italian, the sanction Måneskin happens to beryllium Danish. In English, the word translates to the connection “moonlight.” Ethan, Victoria, Damiano, and Thomas yet had to take a sanction erstwhile they were enrolling for the section euphony contention Pulse. Victoria is specifically half-Danish and helped travel up with the sanction aft the radical thought a Danish connection mightiness work.

Maneskin connected signifier connected ‘Idol’ In Sweden successful Oct. 2021. (Shutterstock)

They Played Saturday Night Live & More

In January 2022, Måneskin made its debut astatine Studio 8H by performing connected Saturday Night Live. They’ve since performed connected different late-night programs, including a January 2023 quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon erstwhile they played “GOSSIP” with Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello.

Maneskin’s Victoria De Angelis, Damiano David, and Thomas Raggi from Måneskin, winners of the Eurovision Song Contest, performing astatine Liseberg amusement parkland successful Gothenburg, Sweden, connected June 20, 2021. (Shutterstock)

They’ve Gotten Major Accolades

After winning astatine the yearly Festival di Sanremo, Måneskin earned the close to alert the Italian emblem successful Rotterdam, wherever they’re representing Italy astatine Eurovision 2021. The famed planetary songwriting contention has representatives from antithetic countries successful Europe competing. Italy past won Eurovision successful 1990.

In November 2021, they won Best Rock astatine the MTV Europe Music Awards. In 2022, they took location the iHeartRadio Music Awards’ Best New Alternative Artist award, the Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song, the MTV Video Music Awards’ Best Alternative (for “I Wanna Be Your Slave”), and the American Music Award for Favorite Rock Song (for “Beggin'”)

They Have An Eccentric Fashion Style

Måneskin is known for its eccentric, ’70s-inspired manner that is inspired by stone legends David Bowie and Iggy Pop. They often execute successful level heels and metallic jumpsuits and deterioration dense achromatic liner — overmuch similar attendees astatine the famed nightclub utilized to deterioration astatine Studio 54 successful its heyday.

Damiano David and Tomas Raggi — “the band’s consecutive contingent,” arsenic enactment by The Guardian — person been accused of queer-baiting, dressing successful a benignant to allude that they’re nary straight. “There are immoderate cases wherever it happens, but sometimes [the accusations are] truthful extreme,” Victoria De Angelis told The Guardian. “It’s anserine for queer people, who should combat these stereotypes, to statement it arsenic this and make much hate. The information [Raggi and David] are consecutive doesn’t mean they can’t deterioration makeup. Or heels.”

“Everything maine and Thomas bash is ever filtered by 2 radical who are [queer],” added Damiano David. “Of course, we don’t acquisition the aforesaid stuff, but we unrecorded each time precise intimately with radical from the community.”

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