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Andrea Laffranchi
The singer-songwriter releases his new album with a new manager and a new label. The tour starts in Lignano on May 30th: 12 stadiums
We are republishing Andrea Laffranchi’s interview with Tiziano Ferro, published in October, one of the most appreciated by our readers in 2025
Two years in which everything changed. From summer 2023, the end of the last tour, to today, Tiziano Ferro has turned his private life and career upside down. She separated from her husband Victor Allenmarried in 2019 (“I have custody, but I wouldn’t want to take the children away from America, even if I could. This leads me to live in an alienating place in which I have no points of reference”), has changed manager for the first time in 25 years (now there is Paola Zukar who works with Fibra, Marra and Madame) and record company (Sugar).
The insecurities
Revolutions that have left their mark on «I’m great», the new album which comes out on October 24th: «Obviously everything that happened in these 2 years ended up on the album, a great disaster but not only that. It is an album of insecurities but also of assumptions which then become new life affirmations”, explains the singer-songwriter.
The shadows of the personal earthquake are lengthening, for example, on «What was wanted», the end of a love like the scene of a crimebut the album’s journey through collapsed relationships, solid friendships, complex family bonds and self-examination leads beyond rancor and resentment. The key word, the one that Tiziano uses to tell more than one of the songs, is “reconstruction”. He set the arrow in a new direction, even though «I would like there to have already been a happy ending, but I made the choice of sincerity without the desire to appear at the top».
Luck and merit
“I’m great.” When was he told?
«Never before now. I tend to have low self-esteem… The title sounds arrogant, instead it’s a mantra: psychoanalysis teaches it, if you say something out loud, you’re already starting to solve it. My generation is led to justify its qualities instead of being proud of them. “He who praises himself is cheating” they say. I have always felt indebted to fate, perhaps because I come from two families who saw dignity in deprivation and suffering. The turning point came when I wrote a song with Roberto Casalino: it was too simple until I realized that I shouldn’t be ashamed of saying that, in addition to chance and luck, there is merit.”
When should he have told himself? To your first international success? At the first S. Siro?
«I went to couples therapy and the psychologist closed the sessions by asking us “each say one nice thing about the other”. Good psychologist, eh, but the result… (laughs) The good thing for myself, however, I should have told myself when I did the 2023 tour when everyone advised me to stop because I had a polyp on my vocal cords. The only goal for me was the concert (in May apart from the new one, 12 dates in stadiums ndr) and the people.”
The song dedicated to his niece (and daughter)
This is a record that brings back the urban-r&b sounds and metrics of his early days… And there is only one ballad…
«In form… then in terms of content and emotional weight even the lyrics of uptempo songs with high bpm could fall into the category».
The songs for his children are classic, they were on the previous album and here «Le like» is for his daughter Margherita. Less frequent are those for grandchildren, such as «Gioia»…
«Given that there would also be a song for my son, a dialogue that I imagine when he will be a teenager, but I didn’t have time to finish it… I discovered that the role of uncle brings out the best in you because you have nothing to lose, while as a father you are full of insecurities and fears. With my niece it was easy and immediate to feel like an uncle, while it took me longer to feel like a dad because it seemed like a high title, “dad”, that I didn’t deserve. I also wrote the song for my brother who is 11 years younger than me: we decided to break a cycle of family acts that also hurt us. Our parents were poor, I slept in the room with them until I was 8, they made mistakes, but I still thank them.”
«I dreamed of you» is a letter to a distant, dreamed mother… Is she dead?
«She’s not a dead mother. It is a much more complex death: that of relationships, that of connection. My mother is a very sensitive woman, but not good with words and gestures. I’ve always suffered from this. These are things you process when you become a parent yourself: it’s a tough, but non-judgmental song, full of forgiveness.”
Mental health
On the previous album a song talked about depression, here «1-2-3» talks about his panic attacks…
«It makes me angry that we talk about mental health just because it’s fashionable: unfortunately it has become a social network topic. However, no one addresses the evolution that treatments have had since the days of my grandmother who was sedated with EN only because she was a woman with opinions, and therefore considered crazy. I remember her absent, she took pills because that’s how people did it back then. I, on the other hand, have the tools to carry out an investigation and understand where I am with my mental health: this is a lot and I have to share it.”
January 1, 2026
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