Mahmood and love for his mother Anna, who raised him alone

The first thought of Mahmoodit just was proclaimed winner of Sanremo 2022, paired with Blanco, with Chills, it was for the mom Anna Frau. He wanted to hug her, but she was not in the room at the moment of her triumph: “I want to greet my mom but she’s not here, she’s in the hotel,” said the artist from the stage. Mrs Anna he didn’t have a ticket for the Ariston, because they were all sold out. Mother and son were only able to see each other when he returned to the hotel. AND the video of their touching hug made the rounds of social media. Mother Anna, a Sardinian from Orosei, also retweeted the video from her account in which Mahmood tells her «ia ti la crediàs crasa», which in Sardinian means «you would never have imagined it». In the video the lady appears moved: «But she does not immediately express her emotions and only this morning at breakfast she burst into tears», Mahmood then recounted.

The artist and her mother are very close, as evidenced by the tender images posted on Facebook by her. On the other hand, Mrs. Anna raised her son alone. The father of the artist, of Egyptian origin, he left home when Mahmood was only five years old: “I was so little … The moments of anger came later and I got over them.” After the first victory in Sanremo with Moneyaddressed to the father with whom for years he had not had relations (“tell me if you miss me or you don’t give a damn”, says a verse), the singer had revealed: “I grew up with my motherthe neighbors were my aunt, my cousins: my mother has twelve brothers, we are a big family ».

It was Mrs. Anna who pushed Alessandro towards the path of music: “I owe everything to mom. At first, she accompanied me to the singing teacher, starting from Buccinasco, where he worked, and taking me to Baggio. Every day, a journey. My mom never made me miss anything, I studied and got my diploma ». Even today, the artist said, it is his mother who helps him in all bureaucratic and organizational matters. And she was one of the first to understand that Chills it was destined for immediate success: “When I showed my mom the song for the first time, she told me it came right away unlike the others that required some more listening ».

Anna and her son are «a team, a team». Guest of very true after the triumph with Money in Sanremo, the singer had declared: “This victory is also his, we made many sacrifices together”. The artist owes everything to her. Because “he made me my mother and my father“:”I can’t say I missed Dad, because she gave me everything“. His father, after abandoning him, had three other wives and other children: “I met a sister in Milan and a brother in Egypt”. But when Mahmood talks about him he never uses the figure of anger: «People love each other, they don’t understand each other anymore, they break up. I want to believe that everyone has humanity. There will be no way to clarify, I don’t close the doors“.