As in La Rage Non Ti Basta, "believing in your dreams saves".
A revelation at the Sanremo Festival, the rapper and LGBTQ+ activist BigMama brought her message of equality, universal love and denunciation of
bullying and body shaming to the hall of the UN General Assembly
.
From the Ariston to the podium of the United Nations from which the world's leaders speak every year: Marianna Mannone spoke in English in front of an audience of two thousand high school students who came from all over the world.
"All my life I was made to believe I was completely wrong. My physique made people rate me as 'not good enough' before anyone could really get to know me."
A fat person - said BigMama - "in the imagination of others is a listless, lazy, inactive, not intelligent person who has no desire to improve. For a person like me, dreaming was useless", recalled the singer with the young people who came to New York for the 'Gcmun talks' training program promoted by United Network, an organization associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications.
Excited and for the first time in the Big Apple (where however she had been seen on a giant screen in Times Square in collaboration with Spotify), BigMama took up the baton of the UN podium from architect Mario Cucinella to retrace the stages of her personal history :
"I come from a very small town with an equally small mentality. I had to endure years of bullying, verbal and physical
. Every day of my childhood and adolescence I remember it filled with words of hate. 'Fat girl, go on a diet, you suck' I tried for years to avoid suffering by staying silent. The first response was anger. At 13 I wrote my first song, Charlotte, a rap about suicide and self-harm and for three years I kept it all for me. BigMama was born when I had the strength to put it on YouTube."
24 years old on March 10, a new album Sangue released for Women's Day, Marianna understood that BigMama was "a shield and a weapon" for her.
Sangue - he told ANSA - will be an album "with less sharp words" to reach as many people as possible:
"It will contain every little piece of my life", said Marianna who spoke at the UN about the Milanese experience when she felt "more beautiful than usual but she was still afraid of people",
then of the disease, a Hodgkin's lymphoma that arrived when she was about to sign her first real recording contract and faced 12 chemotherapy sessions: "It was the darkest period of my life ", she said: "Music really saved me. I healed, and that period finally taught me that I deserve first place. That if I don't love myself, no one will do it for me. That if I don't save myself , no one will do it for me. As in Anger is not enough for you: believing in your dreams saves".
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