The video of "Tango", the song that Tananai brought to the competition in Sanremo, which has just been released, is centered on the conflict in Ukraine.
Directed by Olmo Parenti for the production of A Thing By, the video tells the long-distance story of Olga and Maxim, two 35-year-old boys from Smolino, a town in Ukraine in the Kirovohrag province, who together have a 14-year-old daughter , Lisa.
Images shot by the protagonists themselves with their mobile phones and sent to each other tell the story of the couple's new reality, separated by the war.
Before the start of the conflict, Olga was a secretary in a clinic, Maxim is a soldier and has been fighting at the front since February 2022. Olga and her daughter Liza fled to Italy on March 28, 2022, about a month after the start of the war. 'Russian invasion.
Once in Italy, they spent a few days in state reception facilities but after a while they had to look for a room to stay in, finding hospitality in the house of an Italian gentleman in the Isola district of Milan.
"I was busy writing "Tango" when friends told me the story of Olga and Maxim and I was immediately overwhelmed by strong and conflicting emotions - explains the singer -. The goal of my music has always been to reach to as many people as possible and it seemed right to me, given the theme of the song, to give voice and images to the testimony of these two Ukrainian boys, representing one of the types of long-distance relationship, the one we would never think of: forced separation due to a war. It has been a year since
