Niccolò Agliardi: “When Laura Pausini called me to tell me” we won “”

That he had won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song Niccolò Agliardi he discovered it in his sleep, around four in the morning. “Laura called me to tell me. I fell asleep around one o’clock, but I left the phone on because I wanted to be notified of whatever happened, and so it was “explains Agliardi the next day, his voice numb from an almost sleepless night and his heart swollen with joy and gratitude. “It was a lysergic awakening to be told ‘you won the Golden Globe'” continues Niccolò who, at the ceremony broadcast during the night between February 28 and March 1 in Los Angeles and New York, won thanks to I do (Seen), the song he wrote with Laura Pausini and Diane Warren included in the soundtrack of Life ahead of him, Edoardo Ponti’s film with Sophia Loren available on Netflix.

First sensation at the time of the news?
«It is news that arrived in sleep, in that very strange passage between dream and wakefulness in which anything can happen: it can be reality that becomes dreamlike and dreamlike that becomes reality. There and then I had a hard time figuring out which side of the line I was on. Then I waited for my son to wake up and I hugged him tightly, then we went to have breakfast together. “

Tell the truth, was he a bit on the alert the day before the ceremony?
“I learned not to be very alert because my life has always been like this: waiting too long for things, I never managed to get them. I tried to go to Sanremo many times and they never caught me, then suddenly you wake up and you discover that you have won the Golden Globe and that you are nominated for the Oscars shortlist: all this is very funny, on the alert, according to what one wants ».

In short, the course of life is unpredictable.
“Life decides almost everything for itself, but when you reap the rewards it seems to have been secretly spying on you all this time to see whether or not to give you luck. Fortunes, however, there are of different types: those whores who go with the first one who passes and those more tested. In my case, the latter is valid, and this makes me very grateful ».

I do, in this regard, he also tells a lot about his personal life.
«It is a song very close to the life that I have lived in the last few years. I am also a single custodial parent, and I know what it means to welcome a person into your life against any bond of existence at the blood level, building an organic, biological, life-changing bond. Can you imagine what it meant for me to tell a story very much of my own made by a director I did not know and sung by a great friend with whom we have accompanied in recent years. The biggest emotion was going to my son this morning and saying “we won. You, me, Laura ”. It’s a blast nonsense. “

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It must also be considered that you represented Italy at the ceremony.
“Knowing that you are bearers of a nation makes you feel responsible, but it was undoubtedly cool. I don’t want to be rhetorical, so I simply say that the essence of everything is “life in front of you”, the images that await you ».

In fact, an Oscar nomination could be waiting for you …
“You have to be careful to have these hopes: let’s not get along so hard (laughs, ed). Let’s enjoy the Golden Globe and enjoy the day for now ».

Speaking of this day, how will you celebrate?
«I will go to Rome for work: tonight I will celebrate with two great loves of my life that will prepare me a surprise. I am very happy that I will be with them ».