(ANSA) - SANREMO, FEBRUARY 05 - "The best memory of Sanremo is when you experience the race: last year it was a wonderful emotion, when Jovanotti came to visit me it was fantastic. As a guest or host it's something else ".
Word from Gianni Morandi, who hosted two festivals and participated in the competition seven times and who spoke about himself on the eve of festival number 73, which will see him on stage in the role of conductor with Amadeus, in connection from Sanremo with Chetempo che fa.
"I'm fine, I try to hide my anxiety a little but I'm calm around Ama, because he's someone who smooths out all the corners, if there's a problem he solves it, he's very calm", explained Morandi, who in 2023 will celebrate his 65th birthday. years of career and 60 years since Get sent by your mother, which is about to re-propose in a new version with Sangiovanni, "a very good boy".
"I started singing when I was 13, with the teacher Scaglioni of Bologna, it's nice to remember it".
He couldn't say no to Amadeus, because "I'm attracted to Sanremo".
So it won't be the last as he speculated last year?
"I'd say that now I've done enough", Fabio Fazio gave him a video with his hits, a piece of Italian music history: "Seeing all these songs again, these years, makes me think of the time that has passed, of the people I met : I really like singing with others, playing as a team", explained Morandi, who defined Amadeus "a nice travel companion, even if - he joked, alluding to the festival's commercial campaign - I had to drag him running, because he doesn't train Enough".
With Al Bano and Massimo Ranieri he will perform for the first time as a trio, Wednesday 8 February, for a performance that - promised Amadeus - "will remain in the history of the festival, will leave us speechless and will move us very much".
"Everyone will interpret his greatest successes: at rehearsals - Morandi admitted - I got excited, I saw Ranieri again at 17 at Canzonissima, Al Bano in '67 at the beginning, it was nice to get together all together".
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