(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 07 - "You were a special boy and we all understood it. You had a unique intensity, an ability to look inside yourself that was too strong that at times made you struggle around moods and sensations. Baudelairedice said that 'the sensitivity of everyone is his genius, your eratanta, Mike. And it is that sensitivity, that depth of mind and thought, that ability to dig into the abysses of the human soul that we will carry inside us forever. Have a good trip ". With these words ends the farewell message from Maria De Filippi and Amici, the program in which the young singer, who died at 28, had participated in 2017. "Deep, melancholy in the look and sunny in the smile.
So you appeared the first moment we saw you and so you stayed until the last day you spent messing around. "The message reads, signed 'Maria and the editorial team' of Amici, posted on witty tv's social networks, together with a repertoire video that summarizes the most significant moments of Michele Merlo's participation in DeFilippi's school of talent: images - accompanied by the notes of the song 'Vorreiproteggarti dal mondo' - which conclude with the embrace between the presenter and the young artist. "Yours it was a special melancholy, which fought every second with that smile - continues the message - which said the exact opposite. Sometimes one thing prevailed, sometimes the opposite. You were both. And when you sang,when you were in the center of the stage doing what you liked best in the world, your way of being took over and made you show the world without filters, without fear You were Mike Bird and you were singing. Erin in your natural element, the relief valve for your deep thoughts that exploded in your chest and that you were so eager to share with the world ". (ANSA).