Sgarbi, Extraliscio in Sanremo is avant-garde

(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 12 - Elisabetta Sgarbi weaves worlds, follows the paths of her passions and manages to make literature, cinema and now also music dialogue, with a formula of her own.

Historical editorial director of Bompiani, then founder, with Umberto Eco, of La nave di Teseo, creator of La Milanesiana, director and producer of many documentaries, made her debut with the Extraliscio band at the Sanremo 2021 Festival as a music producer.

And all this while the film by Pupi Avati, 'She speaks to me again' dedicated to the story of her parents, achieved great success with audiences and critics.

    A golden year in which "looking at the world in Extraliscio" brought her to Sanremo.

What does this mean for you?

"Nothing in particular. He brought me literature and my work as a publisher. I followed Ermanno Cavazzoni, who has been publishing with great joy for some years. Ermanno took me to the Extraliscio. . And we have arrived in Sanremo, "Sgarbi tells ANSA.

And how did you choose to bring the song 'Bianca Luce Nera' to the Ariston?

"It happened in one night in April. I was in Ro, in full lockdown, and Mirco Mariani, leader of Extraliscio, sent me a melody engraved with his voice. I fell in love with it. Pacifico then gave birth to an extraordinary text in my opinion. : obsession with something that you can't resist and that you eventually learn to follow ".

    And what do you think of the cast of the Festival so unusual, young, with many independent producers?

"Well, my Extraliscio are terrible and wild 'old men'. This is something I really like. Mirco Mariani, Moreno il Biondo, Mauro Ferrara and Davide Toffolo also have an extraordinary musical history that embraces very different genres. , is a young, child, innocent and curious project, in many ways avant-garde. I like their being young and old, children and adults, experts and beginners. I live like this, exactly like this ".

    And how do you see this edition of the Festival?

"I would have used Sanremo as an ally to restart with cinemas and theaters. So we managed to keep everything closed".

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