Sanremo 2023, Marco Mengoni: «No women in the final? Something needs to change”

«I dedicate this award to all women who participated in the Festival». Marco Megnoni thus hailed his victory at San Remo 2023triumphing in one final five where, in fact, there weren’t any artists. “I was very hurt, it would have been beautiful have at least one woman on stage with us,” he reiterated in Press conference the songwriter. “They had wonderful songs. I think we have to move forward and change something in this country».

Just during there awardsMengoni appeared visibly moved: «They were tears of joy, not I held back the emotion», he underlined, also opening a window on some life experiences who forged it: «We all experience difficult moments and I’m grateful to have faced and overcome them because they made me grow and made stronger. I am private experiences which I won’t bring up why they are delicate and I would like them to stay there.’

The focus then shifts to theEurovision Song Contestscheduled in England: «I want to go and have fun there too. But now I think about enjoy this daythen from tomorrow I’ll think about it: step by step we will approach the event, at the moment i can say i am happy to go to visit Liverpool because I’ve never been there.” And on the invitation of the president Zelensky to go to Kiev: «Did you invite only the winner? It would be better to go all: the more voices we are, the sooner the message arrives».

Great emotion also for Lazza And Mr Rainrespectively second And third classified: «Up until the end I hoped to reverse the predictionbecause I had seen that the piece he was growing up day after day,” said the Milanese rapper. “But that’s okay, I’m very happy». “I absolutely didn’t expect to go to the podium», instead declared the singer-songwriter from Brescia. «For me it is already a victory to have shared the stage with such good artists and carrying my message: a hymn to ask for help in moments of weakness and to showing ourselves as we are, even in the dark moments».