Marco Mengoni is a true Christmas child being born on 25th of December. His musical training began as his parents heard him sing and decided to send him to singing lessons to learn the proper technic. This later led to him participating in the talent show X factor, which he won in 2009 and shortly after released his first EP, which became a success.
Few months later Marco takes part in Sanremo for the first time, and comes third, but after that things went quite fast for the young man. He wins a lot of awards including Best Italian Act and Best European Act at MTV European Music Awards in 2010.