The Ricchi e Poveri will be guests in Sanremo, exceptionally in their original quartet formation, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the song 'La prima cosa bella' and the first participation in the 1970 Festival. The reunion was born from the idea of the manager Danilo Mancuso who brought together Angela Brambati, Franco Gatti, Marina Occhiena and Angelo Sotgiu to create a special project. The group's press office gave the news.
The Ricchi e Poveri, in their original formation, will be guests in Sanremo in all probability on February 5, in the second evening. In trio, Angela, Angelo and Franco were expected to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Festival in 2013, but their participation jumped due to the discovery of the son of Franco Gatti lifeless. Since then Gatti's farewell to the group, which has become a duo. Franco Califano had taken the quartet under his wing and baptized it, originally, 'Rich and poor'. "We are all four together - they say today - to honor the affection that the public has always shown us. Celebrating 50 years since our first great success, 'The first beautiful thing', is like being in the family after a long journey and strengthen an essential bond ". The ReuniON project will see the Ricchi e Poveri fully featured again in the music scene. "The great career of this band that has been able to renew itself over time by imposing itself in Italy and abroad has pushed me - explains the manager Danilo Mancuso - to carry out this project to give them credit and make the new generations better known, moreover already linked to them , a unique musical universe that has always created sharing precisely for that festive lightness and vocation for sentiment which is the stylistic code of the group ". The details of the project will be announced during the scheduled press conference, at the Press Room of the Ariston Theater in Sanremo, on February 5 at 4.30 pm.
