ROME, 19 JAN – Gianni Morandi experienced the Sanremo festival as an artist competing, alone and in a group, as a guest, as a conductor. He won it. She loved him and continues to love him deeply. Enough to go back one more time. “In the race, of course. Because it’s more fun, more challenging. You experience it more. It is an extraordinary stage ”, he says connected by the Duse theater in Bologna, to resume a (musical) discourse that was interrupted almost two years ago due to the pandemic: seven dates scheduled until February 17th. “And then who knows, we’ll see what the public response is”. Two years that have also meant a lot for Morandi on a personal level. “The pandemic made us think a lot, then, last March, the accident also happened that forced me to hospital for 27 days and of which I still bear the marks. It changed me a little. But maybe it all started from there “. The desire to never give up, a phone call from Jovanotti to find out about his colleague’s conditions and a song to start again (L’Allegria), the collaboration that continues, a new song written by Lorenzo (who intervenes in a video call during the meeting) and the idea of taking it to the festival. “A sort of shock, of emotion, the desire to throw oneself back into the fray. Open all doors is a song of hope that is affected by the current situation but with a good charge that I hope you like it ”, he adds, not hiding a certain awe towards the Ariston. “I live Sanremo with the enthusiasm of a rookie, trembling and sweating hands can even come to one with my experience. Already now I feel agitated ”. The piece is produced by the German musician of Turkish origin Mousse T who will be alongside Morandi also at the Ariston, as conductor. In the race he will find his eternal rival Massimo Ranieri. “Italy has always been made up of dualisms… Coppi and Bartali, Del Piero-Baggio. Massimo and I were like that too, but in the end we became friends. Al Bano envious? Eh, sooner or later we’ll do that threesome tour we’ve been talking about for a long time ”. (HANDLE).
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