"With regard to the involuntary diffusion of the piece by Gianni Morandi, competing in Sanremo
, the Artistic Direction, in agreement with Rai1, does not consider it necessary to exclude the aforementioned song because it was a pure technical problem
, due to Morandi's need to bring a right hand brace who underwent several operations following the accident that occurred a few months ago ". Rai announces it in a press release. "The impediment to the movement of the hand caused the error for which Morandi put on the net the back stage he was seeing privately" he concludes.
The song and Morandi therefore remain in the race.
What happened
: a fragment of the song Open All Doors, written by Jovanotti for him, was published by mistake on his social profile (and then immediately removed). Morandi in the video was talking to the producer dj Mousse T about the song, with the song in the background.
Last year a similar episode happened:
Fedez risked disqualification for having accidentally posted on Instagram a few seconds of the song with which he was competing with Francesca Michielin
. The piece was later admitted and came in second place. '' The duration of the interpretation in the video, posted and subsequently deleted by the artist, - Rai wrote in the motivations - is in fact extremely short and such as not to reveal in itself the piece, which cannot be considered widespread and therefore retains the novelty feature required by the regulations of the event ".
"This time I made it big. I was wrong to inadvertently post on Facebook a video with fragments of the song I have to sing in Sanremo. someone had already seen it. I am heartbroken, sorry and I apologize very much to Rai, with the Artistic Direction of the Festival, with my record company, with the musicians, with the producer Mousse T, with Jovanotti and with all the people who are working on this project ", says Morandi on social media after risking exclusion from the Festival.
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