Marco Mengoni wins the Sanremo Festival 2023. Two lives triumphs in the final, second is Lazza with Ashes, third is Mr. Rain with Superheroes. In the all-male top five Ultimo, fourth with Alba, and Tananai with Tango.

"I dedicate this victory to the female artists who participated," says Mengoni through tears. The 34-year-old from Ronciglione (third in 2010 with Believe me again and already winner ten years ago with L'essenziale) also receives the Bigazzi award for best musical composition. Double for Colapesce Dimartino who with Splash bring home the Mia Martini critics prize and the Lucio Dalla press room prize.

THE EVENING – The kermesse, which achieved yet another audience record, ends as institutionally as it began, with the Mameli anthem played by the Air Force band .

Gianni Morandi remembers and celebrates Lucio Dalla , who would have turned 80 on March 4, thrilling, guitar in hand, with "Piazza Grande", then intoning "Futura" and "Caruso" with the orchestra. He rolls his eyes, while Amadeus is moved: "How is it that since I turned 60 I'm moved more easily?".

Triumphal entry of Chiara Ferragni signed by Schiaparelli , with a blue sculpture dress with golden breasts to celebrate the "warrior woman and mother" and the "female struggle against the guilt of wanting to reconcile everything", she hastens to explain on Instagram. The digital entrepreneur takes leave of her two travel companions Ama and Morandi with other new manifesto looks and bringing a flurry of memes and Instagram directs as a dowry.

One with Fiorello, who takes up her husband Fedez's pranks, between torn photos of deputy ministers and cannabis hymns, addressing the director of Rai1 Stefano Coletta: "Have you checked Gino Paoli's lyrics?".

International super guests are the British Depeche Mode , back at the Ariston after the performances of 1986, 1989 and 1990, who give an electronic shock by presenting the world premiere of “Ghosts Again”, the first excerpt from the new album "Memento Mori", soon to be released on March 24, to then sing with the famous "Personal Jesus" of 1989. Legendary.

Gino Paoli, eighth time at the Ariston, tries to dwell on anecdotes but is called to order and it is immediately magic with "A long love story" and "Sapore di sale", with the piano accompaniment of Danilo Rea. The last gem is "The sky in a room". Ariston bows to the grace of Ornella Vanoni , protagonist of a tormented love story with Paoli. Behind eight participations in the competition and four as a guest, Vanoni bestows the unforgettable "Vai Valentina", "L'appuntamento", "Eternità" or "One more reason". Amadeus pays homage to her with a bunch of artichokes: "There are only ten of them, but are you stingy?" Incorrigible Ornella.

Sublime Mengoni, in an eco-leather suit by Versace, who knows no uncertainties and gets excited: "I'm tired and very emotional", he revealed yesterday afternoon at a press conference. Rosa Chemical, on paper the transgressive of this edition, gender fluid flag, catches Fedez, sitting in the front row with his mother-in-law and Ferragni's sister-in-law, and drags him onto the stage to then mimic an embrace and give him a passionate and reciprocated kiss, complete with tongue . He wants to cause scandal and he succeeds.

Lacrima Madame : «A very difficult Sanremo for me, to cover a hundred meters I ran a thousand». Then thanks to Amadeus: "Without him who believed in me I would not have made it". Kekko dei Modà and LDA also give thanks to the host.

Salmo dalla Costa Smeralda returns to glorify Zucchero by proposing "Diavolo in me" in an electronic version . The evening performance of the duets with Shari had received compliments from Zucchero: "Very cool and good luck," Fornaciari wrote on Instagram who evidently appreciated the performance.

Late in the evening , the letter that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sent to the Festival arrives, read by Amadeus : «For more than seven decades, the Sanremo festival is heard all over the world. You hear her voice, her beauty, her magic, her victory. Every year on the shores of the Ligurian Sea the song wins. Culture and art win. Music wins! And this is one of the best creations of human civilization. Unfortunately, for all the time of its existence, mankind creates not only beautiful things. And unfortunately today in my country shots and explosions are heard. But Ukraine will definitely win this war. He will win together with the free world. It will win thanks to the voice of freedom, democracy and, of course, culture. I thank the Italian people and their leaders who, together with Ukraine, are bringing this victory closer».

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