Marco Mengoni won the 73rd Sanremo Music Festival. His song Two lives ranks first among the 28 in the race. Mengoni is ahead of Lazza. In third place Mr Rainon the fourth Lastto the fifth Tananai. For Mengoni it is the second victory after that of 2013 with The essential. A triumphal march. Always in the lead. The victory also in the evening of the covers. “I wanted to dedicate the victory to all the women who attended the festival.” These are the first words after the proclamation of Amadeus. “We reached the final in five guys and so I think it’s right to dedicate it to the artists who have brought wonderful pieces to this stage”, he added with the award in his hand and still tears in his eyes with emotion.
And at the end of the race, when the finish line almost seems to touch it, there is a sudden lump in my throat and tears. A liberating cry that breaks the voice and prevents one from speaking. Marco Mengonithe favorite to win, was forced to interrupt the meeting with journalists a handful of hours from the final: he turns around, tries to catch his breath, starts talking again but can’t do it, turns around again, hides to the looks of the cameras: “Sorry, I’m happy but also very emotional, it’s my worst flaw.”
Marco Mengoni in tears in Sanremo: “I’m very happy and emotional”
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Everyone gave him as a favorite and the singer from Ronciglione has always been first in the provisional rankings, he also won the evening of duets singing Let it be together with the Kingdom Choir. He fends off: “I’m super happy even if I don’t win. I’m enjoying this festival to the fullest, it’s cool. Amadeus he made a crazy cast”. It was fun for him even away from the stage: for the week in Sanremo he rented the spaces of the Circolo canottieri in the old port where, in addition to the interviews, he held at least two parties until dawn, despite the cold of the structure surrounded by the sea.With a broken voice, she recalls having lived in the last ten years “moments of ups and downs and great pain”.It was 2009 when she won the third edition of X Factor by snatching the right to her first recording contract with Sony. His name and his case are cited as an example of one of the few truly successful artists abroad too, among those who have emerged from Italian talent shows.Perhaps so far only he and the Måneskin, both already victorious at the Ariston.
Mengoni arrives at the first meeting with Sanremo with a hot blow, the year after the triumph at XF under the protective wing of Morgan judge. At the Festival he ranks third with Believe me again, beaten by Valerio Scanu, another artist who came out of a talent show, Amici, whose star was then dimmed. Mengoni has never been a pure pop singer, his voice has soulful nuances and thanks to this he intercepts the change of taste that occurs in the Italian public at that time. He is also supported by a certain provincial stubbornness in pursuing the objectives and the perfectionism that he puts into every project: for the first tour of the arenas – an example of his artistic initiative – he dictates the ideas for creating the stage to the technicians and set designers and will continue to do so on tours to come.
After the first Sanremo, the second album comes out Crazy king, immediately in first place in the standings. In May of that year, at the Verona Arena he celebrated the two Platinum Discs for the first two albums: met backstage is an inexperienced 21-year-old boy with a strong dialectal accent, different in appearance from the fascinating man of today , who is 34 years old. He spends a few months and wins the “Best European act” at the MTV Europe Music Award, the first Italian in the history of MTV to win in that category. In 2013 he returns to Sanremo and wins with The essential with which he participates in Eurovision. Ten years ago, and that was just the beginning.
