In December 2012, Perniola won the sixth edition of the popular Italian TV series Ti lascio una canzone, thus rising to fame.

On 18 April 2014, it was announced that Perniola would read the points for San Marino at the 59th Eurovision Song Contest.

[3] Despite the fact that he was born in September 1998, the EBU gave him special permission to be announcer of the votes for the microstate.

SMRTV revealed that Perniola and Anita Simoncini would represent San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 during a press conference on 27 November 2014.

Perniola has said that he only learned he would be singing a duet with Simoncini while driving in the car to the press conference announcing it.