Laura Pausini: 50 years of music, charisma and irony

In one of his most beautiful novels, Daniel Pennac wondered why we were so obsessed with round numbers, wondering why, in particular, the age of fifty was experienced by those who turned it as a watershed between what they were and what they wanted. to be. Laura Pausini, who turns fifty today, May 16, 2024, has had everything he could dream of in life, and this is why he has decided to live his fiftieth anniversary not with the bitterness of those who feel that time is passing, but with the joy of those who know they have grasped goals in their hands that most people would not grasp even in their liveliest dreams. In her fifty years Laura Pausini won Sanremo, she entered the history of the Latin Grammys, she won a Golden Globe, was nominated for an Oscar, hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, she was the first woman to perform at San Siro and at the Circo Massimo and also the first Italian to conquer foreign countries in such a resounding way, attracting a slice of the market – the Latin one – which still venerates her today as an icon exactly as Raffaella Carrà venerated before her. And to think that it all started by chance, from a small village in Romagna and from a passion for singing that was vented mainly in a piano bar until Marco never returned, the train entered the station without him, and Loneliness it opened the doors to a dazzling career that brought Laura Pausini to the Olympus of the greats, quickly leaving national borders thanks to that voice and charisma that have always been her trademark.

Through that recognizable timbre and those love songs that are now poignant and now full of energy and hope, Laura Pausini creates a genre of her own which she carries forward with a style that many of her colleagues before her had always overlooked: freshness and irony. Laura's secret is precisely this: never take yourself too seriously, play with the public, establish a relationship of mutual affection and exchange with fans that is never an end in itself. The church songs sung together with Fiorello in his time Flower newsstand; that moment when during the final greetings of his concert the bathrobe opens slightly at the waist and she, to overcome the embarrassment, plays down and says that “she keeps her like everyone else”, but also that time when she shouts from the stage that she comes from Solarolo, that she is a peasant and that she has come further than what the elders of her family said country: all examples of the virtues of a professional who has demonstrated both that she doesn't mince words and that knowing how to laugh at yourself, a quality that is anything but common in an artist who would have every reason to rant and act like a diva. The thing that struck her about her last tour, created to celebrate his 30 year careerit was precisely this: almost never saying the word “I”, but always “we”.

Laura Pausini wins the Latin Grammy in 2005

«Let's celebrate our career», “let's sing our songs”, “let's hear my daughter's voice which is also a bit like yours”. From the first to the last minute of his concert Laura Pausini knows well that without her audience she wouldn't be where she is, and this is why he underlines it with a certain pride, aware that the success he has built is not only the fruit of his talent but also of that community of people who very early began to consume the cassettes of his first successes, competing for conquer the front row at his concerts. The result is the one we know today: a woman who has always spent herself for the homosexual community, for women's rights – on his last tour he advised all the women in the arena who needed help to make the hand gesture near the workers on his staff because the latter are trained to recognize it and do something for them – and for equal rights using not only music, but also with concrete gestures. Laura Pausini is this: tough, ironic, “indelible”. Let's hold onto it, and hope that sooner or later it will return to Rai1 with a new edition of Laura & Paola because we really want to see your friend again Paola Cortellesi as Franca Leosini as she asks her why Marco left and never came back.