"Italy is a racist country, but not everyone is racist or not everyone is bad, but if you ask me if there is racism, the answer is yes".
Says Paola Egonu, volleyball player of Nigerian origins, tonight host alongside Amadeus and Gianni Morandi at the Sanremo festival.
"Italy is improving from this point of view and I don't want to play the victim, but I'm saying how things are".
"In the name of Rai, I believe that freedom is a sacrosanct right, which must be expressed through all forms of art and thoughts", but "always in the name of Rai, of the top management and on my own behalf, I feel like saying it very clearly, I strongly dissociate myself from the personal attacks that Fedez's performance represented, especially in gestures".
Attitudes that "the public service cannot admit".
Prime time Entertainment director Stefano Coletta explains it, answering a question about the rapper's performance in the press room.
THE PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE
Sanremo 2023, 10.5 million and 62.3% for the second evening - Sanremo 2023
SANREMO: THE LIST OF THIRD EVENING
Here is the order of release of the 28 Bigs in tonight's race: Paola and Chiara, Mara Sattei, Rosa Chemical, Gianluca Grignani, Levante, Tananai, Lazza, LDA, Madame, Ultimo, Elodie, Mr. Rain, Giorgia, Colla Zio, Marco Mengoni, Colapesce Dimartino, Coma_cose, Leo Gassmann, Country Cousins, Olly, Anna Oxa, Article 31, Aries, Sethu, Shari, gIANMARIA, Modà, Will.
On the third evening of the Sanremo festival, Thursday 9 February, all 28 artists in the competition return to the stage: to evaluate them, this time, the opinion poll jury (made up of 300 people selected among habitual music consumers) and televoting, with a weight at 50%.
An average will then be drawn up between this vote and the previous one in the press room and a new overall ranking will be defined.
Alongside Amadeus and Morandi, the presenter of the evening is the queen of volleyball
Paola Egonu
.
There is great expectation for the themes of her monologue after the recent interview with Vanity Fair in which the volleyball player spoke with an open heart, from the episodes of racism she suffered to the sacrifices related to her sports career, up to the fear of giving birth to a child "black-skinned" who could relive the cruelty that she has always had to experience.
Super guests of honor the
Maneskin
, fresh from the disappointment of the Grammys, but also from a triumphal ride across the ocean that started right from the Ariston.
On stage another piece of music history,
Peppino Di Capri
: record holder of the festival with 15 appearances on stage, he will celebrate his career and the notoriety he also gained abroad above all thanks to his two victories, in 1973 with Un grande amore e niente più and in 1976 with I don't do it anymore.
On stage also Sangiovanni who will sing with Morandi the timeless success Fatti mandate dalla mamma fe il latte, in the 2.0 version produced by Shablo.
On the Suzuki Stage in Piazza Colombo there will be Annalisa, on the stage by the sea of the Costa Smeralda Guè.