What a school Alessandro De Santis has created for the French Saints

Alessandro De Santis of the French Saints he was a guest, together with his music partner Mario Frenchto ‘The physics of love‘, the new Rai 2 program hosted by the teacher Vincenzo Schettini, social media star with his project ‘The physics we like’. But what a school Alexander of the French Saints taught? Let’s find out together.

Alexander of the French Saints and the revelations in The Physics of Love

On April 17th Alessandro De Santis of the French Saints, a duo who made themselves known to the general public during the last edition of the Sanremo Festivalparticipated in ‘The physics of love’, the new TV program of the Apulian tiktoker professor Vincenzo Schettini broadcast on Rai 2.

On this occasion, the French Saints frontman spoke about his time at school: “If I had the chance to go to high school now, I would enjoy it more“, He admitted. “I didn’t find many professors who pushed me – continued the singer -. However, there is the case of a literature teacher who I remember vividly because he spoke to us about Leopardi when he entered the classroom, slamming his books on the desk and saying ‘Leopardi was not a pessimist. Don’t believe everyone who says it.’” This teacher “also made me grow musically”, explained De Santis, who concluded by revealing: “I would really like to study and get a degree, perhaps in physics“.

It is not the first time that Alessandro De Santis talks about his relationship with school. Also to Biellaon the occasion of the ‘La Stampa is with you’ event, organized by the Piedmontese newspaper, he said: “I experienced school in a conflictual way. I have always experienced the feeling of anxiety, of not being enough, of having to achieve a certain result. The professors have always told me: ‘Avoid making music, study, we need people who study’”.

“I believe – he continued – that a kind of revolution could be fundamental from the next generation onwards in which we think about a revisiting of the school system of the attribution of grades and the attribution of the personal judgment that a student sometimes feels when his grade does not correspond to what it should be”.

What a school Alessandro De Santis has created for the French Saints

Alessandro De Santis was born in Cuorgnèin the province of Turin, in 1998 and attended the Gramsci Scientific High School in Ivrea (Turin). And it is precisely here that his first musical band, i The Jabduring a concert of Christmas of the school, in 2013. Mario Francese was also part of the group, with whom, in 2021, he created the Santi Francesi project.

The French Saints from school to Amici, X Factor and Sanremo

As mentioned, The Jab, born as a group made up of 5 members and then becoming a trio (in addition to De Santis and Francese there was also Davide Buono), they started making music at school. After a few singles released and numerous live shows (in 2016 they also opened the concert of Luciano Ligabue at the park Monza) participated in the seventeenth edition of Friends of Maria De Filippibeing eliminated before the evening phase of the program.

Having become Santi Francesi, in 2022 De Santis and Francese signed a distribution contract with Warner Music Italia’s ADA Music Italy and on March 25 they released their first single entitled ‘Signorino’.

After the victory at X Factorthey reached the podium of Sanremo Giovani 2023acquiring the right to participate in the Sanremo Festival 2024. With ‘Love in the mouth’ the French Saints ranked 18th.