Sanremo Music Festival 2004

Sanremo Music Festival 2004
Dates
Semi-final 1	2 March 2004
Semi-final 2	3 March 2004
Semi-final 3	4 March 2004
Semi-final 4	5 March 2004
Final	6 March 2004
Host
Venue	Teatro Ariston Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Presenter(s)	Simona Ventura and Paola Cortellesi, Gene Gnocchi, Maurizio Crozza
Musical director	Leonardo De Amicis
Artistic director	Tony Renis
Host broadcaster	Rai 1
Overall competition
Number of entries	22
Winner	Marco Masini "L'uomo volante"

The Sanremo Music Festival 2004 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 2004), officially the 54th Italian Song Festival (54º Festival della canzone italiana), was the 54th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo between 2 and 6 March 2004 and broadcast by Rai 1. The show was presented by Simona Ventura, supported by Paola Cortellesi, Gene Gnocchi and Maurizio Crozza. Composer Tony Renis (who had won the festival in 1963) served as the artistic director.

For the first time since 1984, this edition did not feature a division of the singers in two sections (Big Artists and Newcomers), but a single competition, which was won by Marco Masini with the song "L'uomo volante". Mario Venuti won the Critics Award with the song "Crudele". As was the case in 1975, due to disagreements between artistic director Tony Renis and major record companies, these boycotted the festival and did not enter their artists in the competition.

In addition to musical guests, the guests of this edition also included Dustin Hoffman, Cirque du Soleil, Stefania Sandrelli, Rupert Everett, Raoul Bova, Roberto Bolle.

After every night, Bruno Vespa and Alba Parietti hosted a special edition of the talk show Porta a Porta with the participation of singers and journalists.

Participants and results

Big Artists section
Song, performing artist(s) and writer(s)	Rank	Notes
"L'uomo volante" - Marco Masini (Marco Masini, Giuseppe Dati, Goffredo Orlandi)	1	Winner of the "Big Artists" section Volare Award for Best Lyrics
"Sei la vita mia" - Mario Rosini (Lino Patruno, L. Rana, G. Giorgilli, L. Leone, C. Noto)	2	Volare Award for Best Arrangement
"Aria, sole, terra e mare" - Linda (Linda Valori, L. Bruti, M. Di Paolo, D. De Santis)	3
"Guardami negli occhi (Prego)" - Paolo Meneguzzi (Paolo Meneguzzi, Rosario Di Bella, Luca Mattioni, Dino Melotti)	4
"Guardastelle" - Bungaro (Giuseppe Romanelli, Bungaro)	5	Volare Award for Best Music
"Quando l'aria mi sfiora" - Massimo Modugno ft. Gipsy Kings (Mogol, Gianni Bella)	6
"Generale Kamikaze" - Stefano Picchi (Stefano Picchi)	7
"Cuore" - Morris Albert & Mietta (Sergio Dall'Ora, Simone Boffa)	8
"Le ore piccole" - Neffa (Giovanni Pellino)	9
"Crudele " - Mario Venuti (Mario Venuti, Kaballà)	10	Mia Martini Critics Award
"Era bellissimo" - DJ Francesco (Francesco Facchinetti, Stefano Lucato, Davide Primiceri, Alberto Rapetti)	11
"È stato tanto tempo fa" - Simone (Simone Tomassini)	12
"Basterà" - DB Boulevard ft. Bill Wyman (Alessio Ventura, Rossano Palù, Dario Benedetti)	13	Volare Award for Best Arrangement
"È la musica" - Andrea Mingardi & The Blues Brothers Band (Andrea Mingardi, Maurizio Tirelli)	14
"Lavoro inutile" - Omar Pedrini (Omar Pedrini)	15	Volare Award for Best Lyrics
"Sei un miracolo" - Daniele Groff (Daniele Groff, Marco Patrignani)	16
"Nessun consiglio" - Adriano Pappalardo (Roberto Scarpetta, Adriano Pappalardo, Luca Chiaravalli, G. Moretti)	17
"Un angelo legato a un palo" - Veruska (Mogol, Rosario Bella, Gianni Bella)	18
"Il nostro amore" - Andrè (Marco Canigiula, Stefania Labate, Carmelo Labate)	19
"Single" - Danny Losito ft. Las Ketchup (Donato Losito, Massimo Mariello)	20
"Solo un sogno" - Pacifico (Pacifico)	21	Volare Award for Best Music
"Ladro di te" - Piotta (Piotta, Emiliano Rubbi, Matteo Altomare)	22

Musical guests

Guests
Artist(s)	Song(s)
The Black Eyed Peas	"Where Is the Love?" "Shut Up"
Aventura	"Obsesion"
Haiducii	"Dragostea din tei"
Natalie Cole	" Non dimenticar" "Unforgettable"
Lionel Richie	"Just For You"
Dolores O'Riordan	"Ave Maria"
Adriano Celentano	"Rip It Up"