Mahmood in Sanremo 2025 and the very strong bond with his mother Anna: “With mom I’m fine, we are cip and ciop”

When he was proclaimed the winner of the Sanremo Festival Together with Blanco with the song Chillsin 2022, Mahmood would have liked look at momAnna Frau. Instead the lady He was following him from the hotel TV Because he hadn’t found tickets for Ariston. As soon as he managed to hug her, he said to her in Sardinian “Ia you believe it crasa”you would never have imagined it. And who knows if the lady could ever have imagined that her son Sanremo would even have led him, as happens this year in the fourth evening, when he is next to Carlo Conti.

The link between Mahmood and his mother is very strong: He grew up alonewith not a few difficulties, as the singer explained after the victory of Moneyin 2019, inspired by the Egyptian father who left his family when he was only a six -year -old boy. “I can’t say that dad I missed, because she gave me everything. I grew up with my mother, the neighbors were my aunt, my cousins: my mom has twelve brothers, we are a big family ». The mother Anna is Sardinian, originally from Orosei in the province of Nuoro. At 18 he left Sardinia with destination Milan, to work in the brother’s bar in Buccinasco.

Speaking of his family, Mahmood has always underlined how the paternal figure has been lovingly replaced by the mother: «In recent years I have reviewed the figure of the father also in my mother and I understood what should do, should deal with the house, education, She always made me study and forced me to graduate».

Mom and son, together on the Milanese outskirts, divided between school, swimming pool and singing lessons: «At the beginning, she accompanied me from the singing teacherstarting from Buccinasco, where he worked, and bringing me to Baggio. Every day, a trip. My mom never made me miss anything, I studied and I took the diploma, “said the singer. For the commitment and love received, he is very grateful to her: «Up to 57 years old she had not seen anything, except Orosei and Rozzano. When I took it to London we made the selfies in front of Buckingham Palace ».

To his mother Mahmood he also owes the formation of his musical tastes, and the link with Sardinia: From an early age he made him listen to the records of Maria Carta and Andrea Parodi, Sardinians like her. TO Very true He said that she encouraged him since he was a child to follow the passion for music: «For me it was an outlet and, growing, it became the primary purpose». For him it was almost a manager: «He had a bar next to the offices of the Sugar record company. At the cashier, he always kept business cards with the link of the individual who had made me engraved in English. I said: mom, please remove them! And she: but no! Think that I also happened to serve the son of Caterina Caselli at the table ».

It is Mrs. Anna who first heard her son’s songs: «When he listened Inuyasha He said to me: “Alessandro is beautiful, but won’t it be a little too difficult?” “. It was she who understood that Chills He had an extra gear: “When I made it heard, he told me that he immediately came to her unlike the others who asked her for some more listenings.”

At a certain point, Mahmood also returned to live from her: it happened in August 2021, when A fire destroyed the Torre del Moro in Milanwhere he lived: «In these two and a half years in which I worked on the disc I traveled a lot and slept in different beds. I had conquered independence by taking the first house for rent and the building was burned… I went back to the practically thirty -year -old house. The return was tight but I’m fine with mom, we are cip and ciop».