"Sardinia is preparing to shake the entire continent," Achille Lauro promised. And so it was. "The pride of Cagliari" eroCaddeo passed with flying colors in his third X Factor live performance, this time with an even more challenging song, "Uomini soli" by Pooh, the song that won the first Sanremo Festival of the decade celebrated in the episode: the glorious 1990s .
Even last night in all black ("Nice Laurotfit," Francesco Gabbani good-naturedly teases him, while Jake La Furia sees "a mix between Lauro and Dodi Battaglia"), the singer from Sinnai and former winner of the Radiolina Contest at 27 rejuvenates an Italian classic with freshness and intensity . "I like beautiful melodies and beautiful lyrics," he explains simply to Paola Iezzi who, she says, felt him "caged" in a genre different from his own.
And there's a twist: no strange experiment, it was he himself who wanted to sing this hymn to loneliness and male fragility. "My smile is a mask," he reveals as he unfurls it. "I don't know if it's a quality, but I know how to suffer." "Caddeo suggested it to me," Lauro confirms, "a boy of boundless humanity who, despite having entered here with a clear identity, is growing."
And then he leaves with his heartfelt messages: "Bringing you greetings from Sebastiano, Salvatore, Rosa, Gavino... My social media is flooded with messages, especially from my beloved Sardinians." He intercepted the last of them at the hotel: "Hey Lauro, I cried with Damiano."
