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Michele Merlo, the memory of Maria De Filippi: “A special boy”

It was the year 2017 and of Michele Merlo another name was known, a stage name. Mike Bird, inside the school of Friends, it was the music, the song. Then, he failed to make it to the end, eliminated in the semifinals. But that name of his continued to resonate for some time. “You were a special guy and we all understood that. You had a unique intensity, a too strong ability to look inside yourself that at times made you struggle around moods and sensations “, he recalled. Maria De Filippi, on the day the 28-year-old’s family announced his death, which came from the consequences of fulminant leukemia.

The presenter, who then gave Merlo the opportunity to pursue his dream, a dream of art and music, wanted to celebrate her boyfriend with a video entrusted to Instagram. Together, the memory of what was: “Deep, melancholy in the eyes and sunny in the smile“. “Yours was a special melancholy, struggling every second with that smile that said the exact opposite. Sometimes one thing prevailed, sometimes the opposite. You were both. And when you sang, when you were at the center of the stage doing what you liked best in the world, your way of being took over and made you show the world without filters, without fear “, De Filippi wrote online, taking to I borrow the words of an immense artist. “Baudelaire“, has continued, “He said that “Everyone’s sensitivity is his genius”, yours was great, Mike. And it is that sensitivity, that depth of soul and thought, that ability to dig into the abysses of the human soul that we will carry inside us forever. Have a good trip ».

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