Bright fuchsia for Laura Pausini, emerald green for Mika, total black for Alessandro Cattelan.
Different, but complementary.
"We are a well-balanced group of people, each with its own peculiarities, but also with its spaces. Together we have fun", explains Cattelan for all three, perhaps the most intimidated by the inexhaustible gab of the two colleagues.
They are responsible for conducting the Eurovision Song Contest, on Tuesday 10 May in Turin, with the first of the two semifinals (the second on May 12, the final on Saturday 14), live on Rai1.
A singing event, it is true, but which in a delicate moment for European geopolitics becomes the spokesperson for important messages.
"An event like this, while not political, is of great impact and value, and therefore becomes political in any case. Events like these can educate", emphasizes Cattelan.
"Music is peace, it is a message of unity - echoes Laura Pausini, the most international of our singers -. We are here hand in hand, to say something simple: peace".
And Mika relaunches: "Music is a tool to unite. All these different cultures and languages on the same stage express the concept of universality. Diversity is a source of inspiration. And if in Sanremo it is important when you speak to 14-15 million people , here it is even more so with an audience of 200 million ".
Being on that stage is "a great honor", everyone defines it.
Even though Mika had to make amends.
She in the past she refused to represent England because she did not consider the demonstration suitable for him.
"I said no, it's true. But I've always watched and enjoyed Eurovision, ever since I was a kid forcing my family to move the TV from the living room to the kitchen to be able to see it. I've made negative comments, but you can always change your mind. , above all because in the last 5-6 years Ebu has made considerable investments to bring the show to relevant levels at the level of artists, but also of conductors, photographers, technicians. Now I am here and I am happy to be there ".
Eurovision is a musical show, but there will also be some space for the conductors.
Mika and Laura Pausini will perform in a duet ("A little journey in the Eurovision journey, explains Laura who will also be able to remember
Raffaella Carrà
," the one and the only, they could not fail to pay homage to her "), Cattelan for an ironic intervention on how the Italians prepare such an event.
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"It is something very new for me, something exciting - adds Pausini -. It is a moment to come into contact again with European music. To look, discover, be curious: this is life for me. And afterwards. two years of covid is also the way to relax and smile ".
And then for the three, a ritual question on what the Sound of Beauty is for them, the claim of this Eurovision.
"The first time I heard the word mamma, when I say 'Italy' and art: inside this little word is my world and the sound of beauty", says Laura Pausini without hesitation.
For Cattelan, in a more goliardic way, it is the sound after the first beer in the pub, while for Mika it is "a different idea for each of us".