«On April 29, 2021, I woke up and I could not bend my legs . I thought it was the flu but after ten days in bed I feared it might be a degenerative disease. A neurologist visited me and diagnosed me with depression.

Kekko Silvestre dei Modà tells it a few days before the start of Sanremo 2023, where the group founded in 2002 in Milan returns for the fourth time.

«For years I had panic attacks before concerts – he explains – but I went on denying it, showing myself strong also because of my sense of responsibility towards my family and my parents. I built up too much and my brain finally blocked my physique. Depression is a dark evil that does not show itself and lives inside you.
«On the 2017 tour, the one after the two at San Siro – he continues – I felt my legs wouldn't hold, I was confused... on the last date my mother was holding the rosary... I thought about giving up completely» .
Then came the Covid. The pandemic “gave me the coup de grace. When you're in that state you try to keep only the things that make you feel safe: the usual restaurant, the usual friends... Covid took that away from me too. Then came the physical block, a month later I started treatment. Drugs are the poison I talk about in the song. At first you see them like this, you think those medicines are given to crazy people. I was ashamed, but slowly I returned to seeing the positive sides of life ».
Today «I haven't healed, but last year's tour left me full of adrenaline and made me understand that if you stay on the couch you won't heal. This gave me the courage to face the Festival».

(Unioneonline/D)

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