Sincerity. This is the watchword among the 12 finalists of Sanremo Giovani, who today officially started their march towards the evening of 15 December, which will decide the two who will have the opportunity to compete among the Big festival scheduled from 1 to 5 February. Sincere, honest with themselves and with those who listen to them, with a great desire and urgency to be heard and to express themselves. In the lyrics, which almost everyone writes for themselves, in the look that goes beyond genres and fashions, in the determination of wanting to make music “when they grow up”. Almost no one has tried the talent route before.
Enclosed in a handful of years (they are all between 18 and 28 years old), they represent not only the Italy of music that will be (or could be), but the multiform and multiethnic society of today. There is the exuberant Samia from Sacrofano (Rome), 28 years old “at times a bit crazy” born in Sanaa, Yemen, Italy since she was 4 months old, a curly mop and deep dark eyes who lives the music “as a therapy to continue digging inside me “and who defines herself as” a music eater, without a favorite genre, and space from Lionel Ritchie to Bruno Mars, passing through Madame and Blanco “. And there is Yuman, born in 1995, a Roman mother and a Cape Verdean father, who dreams of singing with James Senese and imagines Sanremo as an opportunity to see other doors open: “I think I’m here because I have something to say”. And on this they all agree. Starting with Oli ?, 25 years old from Belluno, who wears nail polish, miniskirt, make-up and earrings.
“I’m a huge fan of awareness. Being myself is a great journey and my strength is sincerity.”
They seek originality and self-determination, but then they amaze with musical references. They cite Dalla, De André, Guccini, Tenco. Daft Punk, Genesis, Dire Straits and Amy Winehouse.
But also Mahmood, Levante and Madame among the youngest. They also demonstrate a lot of awareness, like Tananai, 26 years old from Milan, the self-confident air and a ready-made record whose release “depends on how it goes: my music may suck but it won’t leave you indifferent”. Sanremo is a springboard for everyone and anyone of them who should go to the race in February sees no disadvantage in confronting the Big, “but only an opportunity”. In addition to Samia, 4 other girls in the race, Martina Beltrami (21 years old from Rivoli), Littamé (25 years old from Terrassa Padovana, who had already tried with Area Sanremo last year and this year made it), Vittoria ( 18 year old from the province of Massa Carrara who this year will also have the linguistic maturity) and Senza_cri.
Always too few, but they don’t let themselves be upset. In chorus, they claim that they do not feel disadvantaged in a male-dominated world. “Things are changing, in music and in society, we would like a world without gender, based only on meritocracy. Meanwhile, we women are affirming ourselves for what we are, we are claiming our place”.
Bais, a shy 28-year-old with few words, comes from Bassano del Grappa, aims for a performance that satisfies him “without expectations, because they bring anxiety. The place at the festival? I let the song decide whether I deserve it or not”. With the air of a shy and good high school boy, the 19-year-old Matteo Romano from Cuneo also tries the adventure, “I’m introspective and I prefer to talk to music, which helps me to analyze myself. I’m building the foundations of what will be”. Like Destro (19 years old from the province of Lecce) who only likes himself when he sings, “because it makes me feel good and doesn’t show me my defects”. More confident Matteo Montalesi aka Esseho, class of ’97, multi-instrumentalist, author and Roman producer who decided to “put his face on it, because it’s time to make it clear who Matteo is and what I have to say” but without the anxiety of competition. “I don’t live music in a competitive sense, I consider it an oxymoron.
I do not have to prove that I am better, but only to prove that I am myself: no one will ever be better than me at being myself. “Meanwhile the whirlwind of names and hypotheses about the festival that will be begins. Amadeus is launching his lure: we talk about Massimo Ranieri and Gianni Morandi, as well as Vasco Rossi, Ama glissa for the moment: “who knows”. The presence at his side of Alessia Marcuzzi, launched by ‘Chi’, would instead be only a hypothesis. HANDLE).
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