Marco Mengoni conquers San Siro: “I’m no longer afraid of anything”

“Whatever your passion, I wish you at some point in your life to feel the same emotions I’m feeling tonight.” Marco Mengoni he shouts it from the stage, without hiding neither tears nor emotions, when more than half of the concert has already gone and he knows he has (also) conquered the San Siro. It is his first time. In front of 54,000 spectators, “two years, six months and a day after the last tour”. The 33-year-old from Ronciglione then greets everyone lying on the stage, as if to enjoy every last moment. “Thirteen years ago I would never have even thought about it,” he continues.

Marco Mengoni in the first date in the stadiums (the second will be on June 22 at the Olimpico in Rome) led all his souls: the lyricist, the pop singer, the environmentalist, the soul and 70s lover, the rocker, the newcomer and the one from the latest album. Because putting on stage 13 years of career (and 41 platinum records), he told just before the start, is not easy at all, you have to start from an idea. The about him is this: “I’m not afraid of anything anymore because I’ve had too much before. Now I know it’s okay. “

Twenty-seven songslight effects, special effects, e in the middle a monologue because Mengoni is no longer afraid even to use words when he is not singing. «I think a lot about words, beyond the lyrics of the songs. Often they seem like words but instead they are bullets “, he had always explained behind the scenes,” It depends on who says a word and how he says it, but the one that hurts me the most is indifference”. And again: «I thought about the word, how to approach the other. I looked for those words that I would like to remove from the dictionary. The idea came after seeing an interview in which Goran Bregovic said that in his language there is no word tolerance ». And then, from the stage: «If only it were enough to eliminate words to forget their meaning. I know that life is only time to try to understand something, I don’t know if I’m at a good point, but for the first time it doesn’t scare me ».

The concert wanted to open it on the other side, in the middle of the audience, to be able to watch everyone: «Per once I wanted to see the stage the way they see it“. Before Change a manthen everything else: I will trust, I am waiting for you, Warrior to But tonightpassing through Mad King, Being human, I wait for you, Believe me again, No stress, Muhammad Ali, Ready to runas far as Psycho Killer by Talking Heads (memory of the early days, by X Factor). It’s still: Light, Protect yourself from me, Words in a circle, As little as possible, The essential. To study the show were the internationals Black Skull, around him all his band. “The best,” he calls it several times. Marco in the stadiums is also the first toilet equal tour to the world because each spectator guaranteed 250 liters of drinking water (about the daily consumption per capita in Italy) to a family in Kiteto, Tanzania.

Mengoni will be back on tour in the palaces in the autumn, meanwhile the final wish cannot be other than this: Good life.