Farewell to Amedeo Grisi, the sick singer-songwriter of ALS

He did not make it Amedeo Grisi that, on February 16, he died at the age of 49 due to the ALS with which he had been fighting for some time. For a few months now Grisi, a singer-songwriter from Sanremo with a long and solid career, had decided not to undergo treatment anymore, letting the disease run its course. “We with ALS are allowed to decide whether to ‘go ahead’ with a tracheotomy, which would mean a tube in the throat and other tubes in the stomach to be fed, nailed to a bed and with a life expectancy of hell, of two years, otherwise the other possibility is to stop and undergo euthanasia », Grisi wrote on Facebook last August.

Grisi died in his house next to his wife Céline Martrès, with whom he had two children, Alice and Andrea, and who never abandoned him. Among the performances he was most fond of was undoubtedly the one with Claudio Baglioni, with whom he duetted both at the former oratory of Santa Brigida in 2018 and on the stage of the Ariston. His passion for music was born when he was a boy, dedicating himself to the discipline with an unconditional love that allowed him to refine a sensitivity that would have led him to write with his own hand. songs and poems of rare beauty.

During his career, Amedeo Grisi released an unreleased album entitled in 2014 Female, presented at the Ariston theater, while in 2017 he was the protagonist of some concerts at the city casino up to the one that saw him protagonist together with Baglioni. The mayor of Sanremo Alberto Biancheri, who organized that exhibition, remembers it this way: «I like to remember you smiling on that day when you realized the dream of a special duet. Have a good trip, Amedeo ».