San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
| Eurovision Song Contest 2017 | ||||
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| Country |
 San Marino
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
| Selection date(s) | 12 March 2017 | |||
| Selected entrant | Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson | |||
| Selected song | "Spirit of the Night" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | Ralph Siegel Jutta Staudenmayer Steven Barnacle |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result |
Failed to qualify (18th, 1 point) |
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| San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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San Marino participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Spirit of the Night" written by Ralph Siegel, Jutta Staudenmayer and Steven Barnacle. The song was performed by Sammarinese singer Valentina Monetta and American singer Jimmie Wilson, who were internally selected by the Sammarinese broadcaster San Marino RTV (SMRTV) to represent the nation in the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine. Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson were internally selected on 12 March 2017, while the song, "Spirit of the Night", was presented to the public on the same day.
San Marino was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 11 May 2017. Performing during the show in position 10, "Spirit of the Night" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final.
Prior to the 2017 contest, San Marino had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest seven times since its first entry in 2008. Their debut entry in 2008, "Complice" performed by Miodio, failed to qualify to the final and placed last in the semi-final it competed in. San Marino subsequently withdrew from the contest in 2009 and 2010, returning in 2011 with Italian singer Senit performing "Stand By", which also failed to take the nation to the final. Between 2012 and 2014, San Marino sent Valentina Monetta to the contest on three consecutive occasions, which made her the first singer to participate in three consecutive contests since Udo Jürgens, who competed in 1964, 1965 and 1966 for Austria. Her entries in 2012 ("The Social Network Song") and 2013 ("Crisalide (Vola)") also failed to qualify San Marino to the final. However, in 2014, Monetta managed to bring San Marino to the final for the first time where she placed 24th with the song "Maybe". In 2015, the nation once again failed to qualify to the final with the song "Chain of Lights" performed by Anita Simoncini and Michele Perniola. In 2016, San Marino failed to qualify with "I Didn't Know" sung by Turkish performer Serhat.
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