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Morandi: I'm going to Sanremo with the enthusiasm of a rookie

2022-01-19T19:07:56.227Z


Resumption of concerts at the Duse in Bologna (ANSA) The Sanremo festival Gianni Morandi experienced it 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 competition, of course. Because it is more fun, more stimulating. You live it more. It is an extraordinary stage, which makes me feel like a child again. When in 1958 I saw Modugn


The Sanremo festival Gianni Morandi experienced it 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 competition, of course. Because it is more fun, more stimulating. You live it more. It is an extraordinary stage, which makes me feel like a child again. When in 1958 I saw Modugno with Volare for the first time. In 64 years I have not I've never stopped watching it: I'm an expert ", he tells linked from the Duse theater in Bologna, where he is preparing to resume tonight a (musical) discourse that was interrupted almost two years ago due to the pandemic: six dates scheduled until February 17. "And then who knows, we'll see what the public response is".Two years of hiatus that 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. Luckily I got away with it, but a little 'changed me. Maybe it all started from there. I don't know if without accident I would be in Sanremo today ", he admits, showing his right hand still protected by the guardian (that naughty tutor that was about to cost him the disqualification, after the publication on social networks by mistake and difficulty in the movements of a few seconds of the piece). Yes, because thanks to the desire to never give up and a phone call from Jovanotti to find out about his colleague's conditions, they first led to the summer single L'Allegria ("almost a therapy for me") and then to a collaboration that went on and led to a new song written by Lorenzo Cherubini (who spoke on video call during the meeting) and to the idea of ​​taking him to the festival. "A sort of shock, of emotion, the desire to throw himself back into the fray. 'Open all the doors' is a song of hope that is affected by the current situation but with a good charge. It is not that I can send who knows what messages, but I hope that you like it and entertain ", adds Morandi not hiding a certain awe towards the Ariston. "I live Sanremo with the enthusiasm of a rookie, and also with the same fears: trembling and sweating hands can even come to one with my experience. Already now I feel agitated, also because the song with all the words"stuck 'as does Lorenzo who is a rapper is not easy to sing. I count on my wife who will give me a push behind the scenes ", he jokes, explaining that what unites him with Jovanotti are" sport (he the bike, I run), the desire to always experiment new things, and positivity ". The piece is produced by the German musician of Turkish origin Mousse T, who will be alongside Morandi also at the Ariston, as conductor, and who gave Open All Doors a soulful, Motown style aftertaste. "When I learned that he was not well - says Jova, in video call and still with the long tail of the covid to be disposed of - I called him. In these situations, knowing that someone is thinking of you is good for you. It was not the Gianni I wanted to hear, he was a bit dejected and for this I sent him TheCheer. When he told me about Sanremo I was happy: I had a draft and I got to work. I like to work on commission. As with Gabriele Muccino ". In the race, the eternal boy 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 said he was envious of not being there? Eh, sooner or later we will do that three-way tour we have been talking about for so long: the Bolognese, the Neapolitan and the Pugliese. "Meanwhile, the old glories are back in Sanremo, but also the very young ones." The festival has changed. Today everyone realizes that it is an extraordinary stage. I remember when as conductor I almost knelt in front of Roberto Vecchioni to convince him to come.I even forced Lucio Dalla with Pier Davide Carone, and Franco Battiato. Before it was thought that if the festival went badly it was a drama, nowadays even finishing last is just an episode that doesn't change your career ".

Source: ansa

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