Sanremo 2021, the third evening is also a great tribute to Lucio Dalla

The third evening of Sanremo 2021, that of duets and covers, is also a great tribute to Lucio Dalla. Lucio would have turned 78 today, but it is 50 years since he brought his to the Festival “March 4, 1943.” It was 1971, the Festival would have won Nada and Nicola Di Bari with The heart and a gypsy, and he should have changed the original title of the song – Baby Jesus – on his date of birth, due to censorship.

To remember the Bolognese singer-songwriter, who passed away in 2012, are i Negramaro, special guests, but also Ermal Meta who chose to sing – with the Napoli Mandolin Orchestra – Caruso.

«The Lucio Dalla that we have learned to know and love is born here, at this very moment. There is a song in his hands that brings together everything he had been looking for up until then. He sings very well, makes the story moving, small and big at the same time, without overdoing it, puts aside his follies, uses his voice calmly and forcefully, introduces himself to the public to be heard and understood “, they write Ernesto Assante and Gino Castaldo in the biography Lucio Dalla (published by Mondadori), recalling that Festival.

“Lucio finished third, moved and bewildered because he was not used to winning, let alone being rewarded”. Fifty years later the homage could not be heard more.

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