Sanremo 2022, Mahmood and Blanco after the victory: “Music is the most powerful thing”

Mahmood And Blanco they never took even a second seriously. And they didn’t even do it tonight when Amadeus announced them as winners of one of the most followed Sanremo Festivals ever, an incredible success. From the plays, to the streaming, to the fans who have been besieging the Sanremo hotel of the two winners for days. “We are friends? No, we won’t see each other nowThey joke late at night at a press conference, with the prize in their hands. And happiness skyrockets. For Blanco Chills it’s a debut with a bang, for Mahmood it’s the return after winning in 2019 and after being a super guest.

The two, 29 the first, 18 the other, will see each other again very soon. The near future that awaits them together is Eurovision, that next May after the Maneskin victory he will be at home in Turin. “We will represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest”, they comment hotly, «And we are doubly happy that he is in our country. If we do Chills in English? In reality, our greatest desire is to bring Italian music abroad ”, explains Alessandro Mahmood.

SANREMO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 05: Mahmood, Amadeus and Blanco pose with top prize during the 72nd Sanremo Music Festival 2022 at Teatro Ariston on February 05, 2022 in Sanremo, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli / Daniele Venturelli / Getty Images)Daniele Venturelli

Chills they tell is «a text that speaks of love, of its many facets and its many implications, and yes it is “certainly autobiographical”. After all they point out «the power of songs is to be sincere and to tell everything we are experiencing. We tell past and present loves ». And if Blanco dedicated it from the stage to his girlfriend Giulia, Mahmood explains that there is no particular person to trace: «I don’t dedicate it to anyone, but to situations I’ve experienced in the last year. When my mother heard it she immediately told me it was very strong. “Your songs are beautiful but I have to hear them several times, for this one the first listening is enough”, he told me ». The same happened also with Blanco’s father: “The power of parents is that they never make mistakes.”

And again, Blanco continues: “This piece has been a long struggle, but beautiful things need to be worked on a lot“. The meeting: «We met by chance, that’s the beauty of music. We met in the studio and Ale started playing the piano and the refrain was born », Blanco revealed again. It was last July, from there they decided to work on it together.

And so here they are in Sanremo. First favorites, then winners. You could guess it in the last few days from the fans who were waiting for them all day in front of the hotel: “People wanted to be with us, sing with us, show us their affection”. Because, concludes Blanco, “music is really too powerful a thing that binds us all”.

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