Sanremo 2021, loves, couples and passions in 71 years of the Festival

If we wanted to say it with a song, and we certainly wouldn’t go off topic, it could be At least you in the universe, 1969, Mia Martini’s ransom: You know, people are weird. First you hate and then you love. Suddenly change your mind.

Since its inception, the Sanremo Festival has been synonymous with loves, young or tested, triangles, passions, fires in the pan, rows and weddings. Cover stories that take over the songs or simply make them a pink background.

HOW WE WERE
At the origins of everything is her Nilla Pizzi, the one who created Sanremo. Stage name of Adionilla, a Bolognese from Sant’Agata, to enter the myth it would have been enough for her to be the winner, in 1951, of the first edition. With Thanks for the flowers. But that year he also came second paired with Achille Togliani, known as the “bell’Achille”, seducer of the time. And here comes the affairs of the heart. Nilla has a story with him that makes the master Cinico Angelini, the official “lover” jealous. And the following year he conquers the entire podium (he won with Fly dove and came second and third with Poppies and Ducks and with A woman prays) and the heart of Gino Latilla.

Latilla, in Italy in the 1950s, is the reassuring sex-symbol who sings “All mothers in the world are beautiful.” The relationship with Nilla, however, is tormented, he sets up a fake suicide that makes the admirers despair. The chronicles tell that to console him they send him cotton wool balls soaked in tears from all over the country. The scene changes, a few years later, with the entry of Carla Boni. He beats Nilla on stage, taking home the victory at the Sanremo Casino with Autumn avenue, and “steals” her boyfriend. Boni and Latilla get married in 1958: it is a great love. Nilla goes to Acapulco to spend the winter, where she opens an elegant nightclub for billionaires. Among the frequenters, Frank Sinatra.

It was 1955 when, on the eve of the final evening, the winner was announced Claudio Villa he gives himself sick. A terrible bronchitis, he says. They photograph him suffering in his bed, at the Hotel Nazionale in Sanremo. Panic breaks out among the organizers in view of a final without a winner, but in the end a solution is found: instead of the singer, a turntable is framed that plays his single, Goodmorning sadness. You do what you can. Only later will it be discovered that it was all a farce: his wife Miranda, a famous voice actress, had discovered his betrayal and threatened to make him a scene live nationally.

It changes register. The elimination of Hello, love, hello and the gunshot of Luigi Tenco freeze the 1967 edition. The singer-songwriter had written it to have a Dalida. The Italian-French singer is outgoing, cheerful; he, on the other hand, is more reflective, gloomy. The magazines embroider a love story that will never be confirmed. After Tenco’s suicide, record companies say they wanted to get married. His mother, on the other hand, will always call them only good friends. Dalida will never talk about it.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLES IN THE WORLD “
It is 1968 Adriano Celentano takes the stage and sings Song (with Milva). Meanwhile on the Riviera he embraces his wife Claudia Mori. The year before they had hit the charts with The most beautiful couple in the world. Photographers follow them everywhere. The love at first sight had been on the set of A strange type in 1963. The wedding arrived quickly: at three in the morning, in a church in Grosseto, to make sure that it was really intimate. The wedding rings the singer and the actress take off immediately afterwards: they are not for them. It is the union, to use her words, of two lives “Passionate, bizarre, unconscious, mad, comic, moving, painful”. It will prove to be a successful union. Three children, the golden anniversary celebrated in 2014. In Sanremo they get back together, and this time she too goes on stage. It’s 1970, they sing the “revolutionary” Who does not work does not make love. They win. Claudia Mori returned to the Festival in 1982, this time as a guest. Claudio Cecchetto leads, in the race there is a rookie Vasco Rossi, Kiss sing in satellite connection. She plays It won’t happen again, and in the highlights of the song the direction frames Celentano, seated in the stalls. THE Warriors in love.

To compete for the title of the most beautiful couple in the world, in the same year, are To the bathroom e Romina Power. Everything they sing becomes a hit. The farmer from Cellino San Marco married the daughter of the famous actor Tyrone Power in 1970 (they will have four children: Ylenia, Yari, Cristèl and Romina Jr). Al Bano has already been to the Riviera several times, but it’s the first time as a couple. They sing Happiness, they look into each other’s eyes, the song conquers the world. They will return to the Festival over and over again: they won in 1984 with It will be; nell’87 Rogue nostalgia makes them come third. 1991 is the year of the last performance before the divorce. They can’t stand Ylenia’s disappearance, he meets a new partner (Loredana Lecciso), he has two other children, he discovers reality shows. We will have to wait until 2015 to see them again at Ariston. Host, Carlo Conti. They sing the whole repertoire, they do not escape the “kiss, kiss”.

REUNION AND KISSES
Amadeus, now to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Festivàl, called them back. They will perform together with their daughter Romina Jr, born in 1987. And in this February 2020 we expect another historic reunion: i return Riches and Poors, all four will be on the Ariston stage to celebrate 50 years since The first beautiful Thing. It had been Weather in Marina Occhiena in 1981 the first to say goodbye. There was talk of a relationship with her husband Angela Brambati, the other woman in the group, but no one has ever clarified the real reasons for the breakup. It was 1980, however, when a young man moved on the Sanremo stage Roberto Benigni at the time engaged to the beautiful (and very tall) Olimpia Carlisi, co-host of the edition won by Toto Cutugno with Only U.S. Impossible to forget the declaration of love (“Silence, these are serious things”) e then finally, the kiss, the longest in the history of the Festival: 45 seconds.

THE COUPLES WE (MAYBE) HAVE FORGOTTEN
Galeotta was also the Riviera for Jovanotti e Rosita Celentano. It is 1989 and the management is entrusted to four children of art: Rosita Celentano, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Paola Dominguin (daughter of Lucia Bosé) and Danny Quinn. Lorenzo Cherubini, 22, is also in the race. He sings, she presents, smiles do not escape on stage. It will last, it is said, until 1991. Molleilato’s daughter will remember their story as “A ride to the amusement park”. And who does not remember the much talked about story between Anna Falchi e Rosario Fiorello? Together between 1994 and 1996: “We were the Ferragnez of the time», The definition of the showgirl. The cameras of Sanremo 1995 do not spare them. She is the official valet (together with Claudia Koll) alongside Pippo Baudo. He sings Finally you. At first it was a secret relationship. «Pippo Baudo discovered us. He had called me to propose Sanremo, alongside Claudia Koll “, the showgirl will later tell in an interview,” One day Fiorello answered the phone directly. “Hello, I’m Pippo Baudo”. “And I’m Fiorello”. “Fuck, and what are you doing there?”. “How what am I doing here? I’m Anna’s boyfriend“. The rest is history, including his alleged nocturnal forays into her room that “disturbed the quiet of the hotel.” The gossip ends up on the front page, both deny.

LOVE WORDS
In 1997 the Jalisse appeared: Fabio Ricci e Alessandra Drusian they are husband and wife, and they win surprise with Rivers of words. Sanremo 2005: Ambra is among the opinion leaders of the edition led by Paolo Bonolis. The mate Francesco Renga, wins first place with Angelo, dedicated to his daughter Jolanda. They hug tightly on stage. Twelve years later it’s up to Bianca Atzei who can’t hold back emotions and tears while singing Now only you exist, looking at her boyfriend Max Biaggi in the plateau.

And then there is Michelle Hunziker who is a regular at the Festival. At the Ariston she crossed paths with her ex-husband Eros Ramazzotti, as a super guest («On stage remains number one»), and kissed Tomaso Trussardi, sitting in the front row, opening the 2018 edition: “There is my husband who I haven’t seen for two weeks, love I love you, you are so beautiful that I would remarry you»He declared live. Like Pierfrancesco Favino who, in the same year, in the middle of a longer episode than usual, left the stage to bring a sandwich to his wife Anna Ferzetti and to the daughters «Who then become aggressive to me. I know my family ».

Love on stage they also brought it Raoul Bova and Rocío Muñoz Morales. She had already been to the Ariston, in the role of “valletta” alongside Arisa and Emma Marrone, in 2015. But it wasn’t the right time yet. They returned two years later, together, hand in hand. A small bouquet of flowers to close the declaration of love in Eurovision: «Rocìo, you have a star on your dress. And I know why. Because you are my heaven ».

You will not change. Tell me you’ll always be sincere. And that you will really love me more, more, more