Paolo Meneguzzi is a Swiss-Italian singer. His career started to take off when he won the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Chile in 1996 and he released his first album in 1997. He also took part in the San Remo festival 4 times, the first being in 2001 in the Young Artists category and later participating in the Big Artists category in 2005, 2007 and 2008, finishing in the top 10 each time.