X Factor 2021 confirms last year’s jury, with Mika, Emma, Manuel Agnelli and Hell Raton. But in addition to the conductor, Ludovico Tersigni, the Sky talent also renews the competition mechanism: there will no longer be categories and the 4 teams will be formed only on the basis of the musical proposal and the artistic project. The Italian one is the first edition of X Factor in the world to say goodbye to the historical subdivision by categories of sex, age and musical formation (singles and bands). The 4 judges will remain mentors of teams that never as this time will be heterogeneous, composed of both soloists and bands through a method of assigning and choosing the 12 finalists focused exclusively on the musical proposal and artistic planning.
Emma, Hell Raton, Manuel Agnelli, Mika will get involved in a new way, they will be able to tell their own idea of music without any limits, trespassing outside any label that pre-exists talent. Between them the competition will be even more competitive and the music will be even more music, and the music will be represented all, in an increasingly broad, fluid and varied way.
The announcement comes today with a video in which the judges confirm their presence in the 2021 edition: there is Emma, one of the most loved voices of the Italian music scene, Hell Raton, CEO and creative director of Machete Empire Records and winner of XF2020 with Casadilego, Manuel Agnelli, leader of Afterhours and spokesperson for a unique and innovative musical vision, and Mika, a global artist who has taken his tours around the world in his career. Distant, still briefly, but waiting to meet again shortly, they enthusiastically announce the novelty of the abolition of the subdivision into traditional categories. With them Ludovico Tersigni, while taking measurements with X Factor. (continues)
With this decision, the 2021 edition of the Sky show produced by Fremantle, expected in September on Sky and Now, also wants to be part of a very current debate, as explained by Antonella d’Errico, Executive Vice President Programming Sky Italia, declares: “Poter confirm the jury today, with Emma, Manuel Agnelli, Mika and Hell Raton, is great news for the X Factor and the audience. Our judges did a great job last year – in one of the most complex editions of the show, achieved during the lockdown, but also among the most popular – both at the table and in the tiring and satisfying daily commitment with the kids. This year their involvement in the search for talent will be even more total and limitless, thanks to the great news that today we announce: the elimination – for the first time in the world in this format – of the division into traditional categories “.
“A novelty – he underlined – which is an integral part of the path and the DNA of X Factor, which has always been a child program of its time, both in music where the mission is not to follow trends but try to anticipate them, and in society. , always supporting without any fear the principles of inclusiveness and hospitality that we all believe to be a perennial source of enrichment. The same values that the Sky group welcomes and supports, promoting and actively engaging every day in the development of a culture of inclusion and diversity. By eliminating the historical division into categories, the X Factor not only welcomes change, but wants to make it a standard-bearer: in a world that no longer needs to make distinctions of gender or age, for us talent is a neutral noun. To all competitors that we will be proud to welcome on stage we will ask to bring with them the only thing they really need: their personal, unique ‘X Factor’ “.
“Confirming this jury, which is one of the best ever, is already – added Gabriele Immirzi, CEO of Fremantle – a first goal of XF2021. Emma, Manuelito, Manuel and Mika will continue to bring competence and passion into the program, and will be able to express them. without being prisoners of the boundaries of traditional categories. We are in fact the first X Factor in the world to intervene on a historic format element that has always characterized the program, but which today, in 2021, in agreement with Syco Entertainment, we feel far from reality everyday, especially for the generations that participate in X Factor. We want to see the growth of musical talents without labels and distinctions, other than the value and artistic quality of their projects “. (continues)