“After the victory in Sanremo my mother was scared, she saw me different, she understood that I did not recognize myself. Mirroring myself, I saw a dark figure with a scorpion tail, I couldn't find myself. When I found myself, she calmed down ”.
This was stated by Mahmood, speaking of the period following his triumph at the 2019 Festival with “Soldi”.
The rise to success worried the mother of the singer of Sardinian and Egyptian origins, who has always been a point of reference for him: “Up to fifty-seven she hadn't seen anything, except Orosei and Rozzano. I took her to London, we took selfies in front of Buckingham Palace. We have selfies of us in front of the monuments of many cities around the world. Months ago I told her: 'Tomorrow I'll take you to Lake Como ”.
The relationship with his father is more problematic, as described in the Sanremo hit: “He got married four times. He had other children. I don't know if he misses me. Maybe it's in Egypt, or maybe in Milan. We haven't heard from each other for a few months. Because of what I've experienced, I find myself in some attitudes: being a joker, wanting to make others laugh ".
Mahmood finally confessed to having been bullied as a child: “From seven to fifteen years I was chubby. Chubby and with eyeglasses, I was three degrees short. One day a bully showed up and threw my briefcase out of the window ”.
(Unioneonline / F)
