August 19, 2015 – There are seven Italians among the winners of the World Wide Music Contest, the event that brings center stage emerging music worldwide. Over 1,300 songs sung by as many artists from all over the world, heard and examined and judged over the course of 12 months by an international team of record artists and labels. The jury, which chose Marissa Guzman from the US as best emerging artist, also selected seven Italians who received a special mention: Flare (Udine), Venomind (Naples), 2Beards (Gioia del Colle), Bruno Pittelli (Milan), Ixia (Rome), Valentina Preda (Bologna) and Busking Nico.