Festival di Sanremo winner Alessandro Mahmoud, aka Mahmood, will reportedly move on to the Eurovision song contest to be held in Tel Aviv this year, with the main competition occurring on May 18 – although a recent interview suggests he may be having second thoughts. Below is a helpful lyrics video, with English translation, of the winning Sanremo song, “Soldi,” from Youtuber MYESC.

Italy has won the event twice: Gigliola Cinquetti in 1964 with her most famous single, “Non ho l’età,” and Toto Cutugno won in 1990 with the lesser known “Insieme: 1992“.

In the US for the past few years, Eurovision has been broadcast on LOGO TV which has also streamed the show on their site. No news is available yet if the same will be true this year. In Canada, OMNI Television just announced they will be broadcasting the competition this year. The show was last broadcast in Canada in 2015.

The Library of Congress is set to honor the disco era with a series of events from April 12 to May 6 with the highlight being a performance from Gloria Gaynor, popular worldwide due to her disco anthem “I Will Survive. ”  The celebration honors the impact of disco on American culture but fair to say its impact was felt in Italy as well where disco took over mainstream pop in the mid-70s.

Marcella Bella was credited with the first Italian disco hit with “Nessuno Mai” and later she even recorded a disco version of “Resta Cu’mme”.  Lucio Battisti incorporated the disco sound in his latest releases and Italian disco music from Raffaella Carrà and Umberto Tozzi even became world-wide hits.  A favorite of that era and one that still enjoys great popularity today in Italy, with two recent films inspired by its lyrics,  is “Se mi lasci non vale” from Latin crooner Julio Iglesias.   The hit, written by singer-songwriter Luciano Rossi and actually released and recorded first by Rossi, was also done in Spanish by Iglesias and later released in English by Canadian Patrick Norman (“Let’s Try Once Again”).