Self Marco Mengoni decided to return to the Sanremo Festival exactly 10 years after his victory with The essential the fault is partly his, that Marco who feels he always wants to put himself to the test, and of Two livesthe song he wrote together with Davide Petrella and which for many risks being able to reach the podium again this time. «It was as if the song itself knew it was written to take a ride on that stage», Marco tells reporters a few days before departure, never so calm and never so seraphic. Returning to Sanremo at this moment for him, more than a challenge, represents an adventure that he intends to savor from the first to the last second, having demonstrated everything there was to prove ahead of time: «I did the stadiums, the records went very well: I’m lucky. I said to myself: it’s now that I have to gowithout any pressure. They’re putting me on top of the class but the truth is I don’t feel the competition. It is obvious that he wants to make a good impression, but I have no ambitions of winning: I expect to have fun, yes».
«I am very happy with 10 years ago, and this is also why the position interests me relatively», Marco Mengoni resumes adding that he is happy to be part of this cast: «I think it is the reflection of what happens in music, a rainbow of different colors that after the rain will make up a top Sanremo. I will be on stage with friends, with artists with whom I have collaborated and with whom I often drink a gin and tonic», says Mengoni, also satisfied with the new album he is arranging and which, he says, will be released after the Sanremo Festival and before his new stadium tour. Returning to the Festival, Marco had been thinking about returning for some time: «It’s a bit like when you finish a tour, you go to see other concerts and you tell yourself that you would like to be on stage: you always want to come back. Going as a guest to Sanremo is beautiful, but you also feel a bit like participating because you want to be part of that thing. Last year it came to me a bit.’ The fulcrum of everything remains, however, her: Two lives, the song that will propose to the Ariston and that will make us pull out the handkerchiefs. «It is my never ending story because it is the story of a relationship between ratio and the unconscious. I’m dedicating a lot of hours a week to my thoughts with a professional and I’m realizing that my unconscious gives me more realistic inputs than everyday life. In the song I told about this double life: that of the night and of dreams that becomes more real than the dreams themselves, and the one I live every day».
«I am a sinner, I am one who makes mistakes. There are slaps and you have to move forward in life. There are moments of boredom and down that still serve as all things: for me Two lives is this», says Marco Mengoni, explaining that he built the piece starting from a particular Maestro and from a precise inspiration: that of Lucio Dalla. «It is a song full of words, a continuous tension that never seems to explode until the moment I leave my vocal cords there, in Sanremo. It was not easy to tackle this piece, but the nice thing is that we got carried away by Lucio Dalla letting ourselves be inspired, remembering him. I approached singing in this way: little breath, many words and a lot of tension to then explode», insists Marco Mengoni who, during the fourth evening, the one dedicated to covers, chose to propose his version of Let it be by the Beatles accompanied by Kingdom Choir, gospel choir composed of 13 elements. «Let it be it’s a hymn, something great that makes me think of many joined hands, a piece that has no time because it is an entity. It is a song that carries a universal message: to move forward, to let go, to shake off everything that was yesterday and bring it back to tomorrow».
Meanwhile Marco Mengoni, who will have Lido Mengoni as his operational base in Sanremo, a sort of headquarters that will host friends, acquaintances and journalists who will experience and savor the Sanremo trip with him, thinks about the passing of time, dwelling on the boy who was 10 years ago and who, to everyone’s detriment, managed to take home the prize. «In 2012 I had questioned my future in music: I was thinking about university, about one of the paths I could have taken. Then I arrived at that Sanremo with a great desire to demonstrate even if few people supported me. With Marta Donà we strengthened each other: that Sanremo was incredible because it showed me that I could say something. From that evening on, everyone patted me on the back, but I don’t forget.” Together with the simplicity that is able to excite him – even if “many things in life don’t upset me” – Marco Mengoni is more than ever convinced that today there is only one thing that is “essential”: “having fun, thinking about it, thinking about it less”.
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