Sangiovanni: “Pressures and haters, at 19 it's not easy. Sanremo is a breath of fresh air "

To see it it seems the quintessence of lightness and lightheartedness. And instead for Sangiovanni, born Giovanni Pietro Damian, 19 years old from Vicenza, the success arrived in record time after the second place in the last edition of Amici has already shown the other side of the coin.

That is the weight of notoriety, the fear of not being liked, the wave of hater that does not spare even him who is loved by the younger generations and who has already sold out all the superclub dates in May (with two dates added on 19 October in Rome at the Palazzo dello Sport and on 23 October at the Milan Forum).

At the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival he brings “Farfalle”, written and composed by him with Alessandro La Cava and Stefano Tognini and produced by Zef and ITACA, production team of Merk & Kremont. The Sanremo arrangement was curated by Maestro Carmelo Emanuele Patti.

"The song represents an attempt to relieve myself after a period of sorrow - says 'Sangio' at a press conference from Sanremo -. At 18, changing your life is not easy, as it is not to endure so many judgments. Sometimes I get overwhelmed. I feel so many burdens on my shoulders and I want to shake them off ".

His family helps him (it was his mother who inspired his name: "You are always holy! You never do anything wrong!"), His girlfriend Giulia Stabile, the dancer who won the Maria De talent edition. Philippi where they met and fell in love. Her initials are the initials of the necklace she wore on the green carpet in front of the Ariston: “Giulia knows what my state of mind is and keeps repeating to me that I have to enjoy it”.

The Sanremo stage is a dream even if “a few years ago I didn't even think about making music. I discovered I wanted to do it overnight, it's as if she had chosen me. I didn't believe it could be my future. I just wanted to find a way to communicate a message ”.

Sangiovanni started at sixteen when he met Madame, a schoolmate who attended the same small recording studio in Vicenza as the producer Bias. The two worked together with the song "Lost in the dark", a gold certified single released at the end of 2021.

Today, continues the multi-platinum artist, “I'm happy to sing in the theater and in front of the audience, even more so because people who like my music can just press a button on the remote and see me”.

On Friday, on the evening of the covers, she will sing Pierangelo Bertoli's "A hard snout" alongside a great Italian musician, Fiorella Mannoia: "It is a song that has opened a world to me - he explained -. being despite everything that surrounds us represents me a lot. I wanted to take her on stage to pay homage to an incredible singer-songwriter with an immense artist ".

"Cadere Volare", his new album, contains twelve unreleased tracks that involve multiple producers: from DRD to Kyv, from Scirè to Zef, passing through Mark and Kremont, Takagi and Ketra, Dinu, Sick Luke, Katoo and Bias.

In 2021 he was the revelation artist of the year: seventeen platinum discs and two golds for the eponymous EP "Sangiovanni", over a hundred million streaming for his "Malibu" which is the most listened to song of 2021 both on Spotify that on Apple Music and the most watched video of 2021 on Vevo. Record also on Tik Tok: two songs by Sangiovanni - Malibu and Lady - are in the absolute top 5 of creations of the year.