The singer-songwriter spoke about himself in an interview with La Stampa
We were the first to launch the indiscretion FQMagazine. Gigi D’Alessio among the possible hosts of the next Sanremo Festival. Now the singer-songwriter a The print he says he wants to apply in some way: “I would definitely go to Amadeus to take lessons because it won’t be easy after him. I confess, however, that I wouldn’t be afraid because it’s not open heart surgery. I do my Sanremo every year in Piazza Plebiscito and I would have no fear.” However, she is keen to point out that no one contacted him: “They didn’t propose it to me and I only read it like you in the newspapers. Someone said that I proposed but, do you think it’s possible? Imagine if I propose to do the Festival knowing the dynamics of such important events. Of course, I register my name among those who left but I can’t know how it happened.” FQMagazine is able to confirm that the name of D’Alessio – who states “imagine if I proposed myself” only to then nominate himself in the press – has been circulating in the “rooms of power” for a while, with ‘quotations’ rising and falling.
Still on Sanremo but regarding the last edition, he bitterly recalls the booing of Geolier: “That evening Ariston wrote a bad page for TV and the Festival. It was a bitter ranking for Angelina and also for Geolier. In the end the press room won against the Italians’ dining room.” For him, Geolier «is an example to be rewarded because he was born in a disadvantaged neighborhood and today he is at the University pushing kids to study; he is bringing forward a beautiful message”. On purpose of the Neapolitan song and the great success it is having also and above all in rap, D’Alessio explains: “The sound of the language that not everyone knows but appreciates has become central. Mogol one day told me, I swear on my children, that when he composed with Battisti he told Lucio to translate the piece into Neapolitan and listen to whether it sounded good. Even the Beatles came to listen to Neapolitan melodies for inspiration: so what do we want to talk about?”.
