Bigmama: “I have lost faith: when life is difficult you struggle to believe in an entity that allows what is happening to you. But I love my parish priest, it’s at the forefront “

He is one of the most powerful voices of his generation: Bigmama, 25 years old, sings for those who do not feel represented, for those who have been insulted and for those who insist on believing in love even when they are hindered. It does so with the frankness of those who have known pain up close: bullying, disease, discrimination.

In a country where civil rights seem to regress, she chooses the stage as a place of resistance. “We are retreating. And this makes my generation sad», He explained to Courier. “We are people and we all deserve a worthy life.” In the song San Juniperoinspired by his partner Lodovica, writes: “I want family with you, but we are in Italy / here the problem is I and you / mica the mafia”. It is a clear complaint, which leaves no room for misunderstandings: “I don’t understand how love, equality, rights can be denying,” he says.

While declaring himself far from politics (“I keep away”), Bigmama does not give up taking a position. And if he is asked if he would marry Lodovica, he does not hesitate: «It would be like living a happy day in an unhappy life Because the world does not recognize you ». The sense of exclusion knows him well, she who from the child found a refuge only in a sheet of paper: “I couldn’t talk to anyone, and writing me helped me”.

In those difficult years he also lost faith: «I stopped in first superior: when Life is difficult You struggle to believe in an entity that allows what is happening to you “. But not everything, in his spiritual world, has been lost. “I believe in karma and human energy”. And in San Michele di Serino, her country in Irpinia, there is a priest who, for her, makes the difference. “I love Don Rocco, an avant -garde parish priest. He said to me: “Don’t believe in God, but What you do with music and messages of respect and love for others is the most religious thing there is“»

Bigmama also faced the disease. A Hodgkin lymphoma, seven months closed at home, chemotherapy, fear. «I am a survivor. But music committed me while I was doing chemotherapy. Even when I was going to die and I was not half a hair in my head, my fixed thought was to go back to writing and singing».

Now is on the stage of theEurovision Song Contest 2025where he comments on the event for Italy together with Gabriele Corsi. For her it is a sort of consecration, sealed by the words of Mara Maionchi: “she embraced me:” I am happy that you take my place “”. Tifa for both Gabry Ponte and Lucio Corsi. By Olly, winner of Sanremo who has given up on the European competition, says: «It takes courage to say no. I respect him and respect his choice, even if I ran on that stage ».

Today he looks at Raffaella Carrà with admiration: «I would like to know how to present, dance, act, be a showgirl. Raffaella is a point of reference. With her the revolution started from an navelhowever, it was the navel of a woman who had never seen each other on TV ».