Sanremo at the start. The Pope’s peace message. Ariston in delirium for Jovanotti

The 75th Sanremo Festival opens with a tribute to Ezio Bosso. The musician’s voice is heard: “Always remember that music like life can only be done in one way: together”. Words that come together with the melody of his ‘Bird Following’. Then Carlo Conti, elegant with black papillon, descends the mythical stairs of the Ariston.

Gaia opens. We will start fantasanne

The first points for the fantasanre come from Gaiathe artist who opened the race with ‘I call I call you’. The young singer delivers a bouquet of flowers to the conductor and gives the first ‘joys’ to those who have put it in the team.

Small technical accident at the opening of the number 75 of the Sanremo Festival, when for a few seconds there was an audio black-out, while Carlo Conti was greeting the public and viewers. Technical accident resolved in a few moments, but immediately ‘photographed’ by the various social channels.

“The accounts return and I return” are the first words of Carlo Conti who then thanks his predecessors Claudio Baglioni and Amadeus to whom he recognizes that he has done “an incredible job”.

Scotti ironizes: “Naked chest? You come the sguaraus”

Gerry Scotti seems to have a great desire to take the singers affectionately around. Rkomi is targeted for the naked chest under the jacket. “Be careful that Sguaraus comes to you,” he says to the young artist.

Gerry Scotti and Carlo Conti put the “welder” dark glasses so as not to be dazzled and welcome Antonella Clerici in shiny silver gray dress. “I have been knowing you for many years but I have never seen you so sexy,” says an admired Conti and she jokes us on: “They are the last cartridges”.

First standing ovation for Cristicchi

Ariston standing for Simone Cristicchi at the end of his ‘when you are little’ written for the mother suffering from a serious neurodegenerative disease.

The figure of the mother today protagonist at the Festival with Carlo Conti moved at the press conference remembering the strength of his who grew up alone. And Scotti on stage reveals: “You made me too”. “It ages …” comments the conductor.

The text of the message read by the Pope

Here is the text that Pope Francis read to the spectators of the Festival. “Dear Carlo, I still have in my heart the memory of the world day of children, last May, you were with us with the human warmth that distinguishes you, at that beautiful moment at the Olympic stadium with children around the world. Music is beauty, music is an instrument of peace. He told me and explained to me some songs of lyrical works making me known the sense of harmony and messages that music can give. Many injustices of the world, for the many wars, situations of conflict. And to say with life, music and singing: peace is possible! Today you are doing it and you are doing it through music. Come to live beautiful evenings and I greet a greeting to all those who are connected, especially the people who suffer, and to all of you, and that good music can reach the heart of all. You know, music can open the heart to harmony, to the joy of being together, with a common language and understanding making us commit to a more just and fraternal world “.

Pope Francis’ video message was welcomed by a standing ovation by the Ariston audience.

Jovanotti makes Ariston dance

“The festival is really beautiful, it’s like Christmas, Easter, New Year”. After making Ariston dance, Jovanotti, in complete gold color and in perfect shape after the injury, defines himself as “too excited”. “You can’t come here to do these things – he turns to count -, too much adrenaline. For me it is a special festival, I am happy to be here. There is also my daughter Teresa (it indicates it between the public and jokes about hers Hairstyle, editor’s note) “.

Achille Lauro to journalists: “Songs are our history”

“Dear journalists, the songs are sometimes not just simple songs. They are our history”. Achille Lauro writes it in an open letter in which he explains the meaning of “unconscious young people”, the song he presented at the Sanremo Festival.
“This is unconscious young people told by those who lived it, tonight by my greatest love”, which in the end of the letter signs with the abbreviation S.
“When I met Lauro”, reads, “he was a lean teenager, with always short shorts short and his face dug. We were very young when we fell in love. I lived alone with my mother, and he often came to us. We helped him so much when he was alone, for my mother he was like a son. The situation he lived “.