Gabry Ponte: “‘All of Italy’ written in the studio in a few hours”
Gabry Ponte with the song “All of Italy” last night it is Awarded the victory at the San Marino Song Contest And it will then represent the Republic of San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest which will be staged in Basel, Switzerland, from 13 to 17 May.
The 51 -year -old bridge speaking of the song explained: “This song showed me for the umpteenth time what had already happened with the Eiffel 65 and ‘Blue’ 27 years ago: that a song written in a study in a few hours can have implications and a crazy path that one would never have imagined. Now this Basel challenge is very exciting and I’m really happy. “
This is the motivation of the jury for the final verdict: “We did a very honest job with ourselves with a goal, to know what the final destination was, that is, the Eurovision. We didn’t vote according to personal tastes. If you want to see the statistics of the most listened to Italian artists in the Gabry Ponte world is one of the first. And then San Marino is part of that Italian territory which has always been the cradle of music to dance, the Adriatic, the discos, Rimini and Riccione. So it is right that San Marino brings this type of music to Europe. “
After the victory, the Turin musician said: “I have been doing this fantastic work for 30 years and I think that the day I will go up on a stage without being excited, it will be the last day on which I will go on a stage.
The song was born in the studio together with two very talented authors friends, who are Edwin Roberts and Andrea Bonomo. In June I will do my first concert in San Siro and we really displayed the image of a stadium full of all of Italy, which jumps and dancing this dance music. We started from this image and then the song was born quite spontaneously within two hours. Music defines a bit of the culture and identity of a people, always. So I really like to contaminate the dance music, which then lends itself a lot, more than any other musical genre, to be contaminated with folklore. Italy has a huge folk tradition, so we took a little pizzica this time, a little tarantella and we had a lot of fun. “
On the type of changes that could propose for the performance in Basel, as reported by Antonella Nesi on Adnkronos, Gabry Bridge He postponed a decision to the next few weeks. “For now we focused first on Sanremo and then on San Marino, from tomorrow we put ourselves at work on the Eurovision to introduce ourselves to the best.”
However, the Ebu will not ask for changes to the text because he had already given his green light before the San Marino Song Contest. “We sent all the texts to the ABO – explained the director of a voice for San Marino, Denny Montesi – Because we know that there must be no political and religious quotes in the texts. So we had subjected two doubts: one concerned the fact that Gabry’s song quoted Craxi and ‘ahead people’, the other concerned the song by Giacomo Flights, who quoted the Ave Maria. Ebu replied that both songs do not break the regulation. “
To those who pointed out that there are those who said that “All of Italy” It proposes a non -edifying portrait of our country, Ponte replied: “We did it ironicly.
We started to imagine a photograph of this country, joking on some clichés that for better or for worse represent Italy a little in the eyes, not only of Italians, but also of those who live outside Italy “. On the two masked singers – who are the two co -author of the song – who accompanied him on stage both in Sanremo and in San Marino, he said: “There are people who do this job but who do not like to appear. I was pleased to have the people with whom I wrote the piece with me on stage, I asked them if they wanted to take part in this adventure, but at the same time I respect their will and therefore we all decided together that the solution could have been that of having masked singers who must not show the face but can sing the piece that have helped to write “.
At the Eurovision Gabry Ponte he will find himself challenging Lucio Corsi who will represent Italy: “Lucio Corsi do not know him personally but I have great esteem for him. And I am honestly happy that he went to the Eurovision to represent Italy because we talked before music as a representation of the identity of a people and one of the strongest traditions of Italian music is precisely the songwriter. And then Lucio’s piece was one of my favorite Sanremo pieces. “
Finally he explained why he was not competing at the Sanremo Festival: “The Sanremo regulation provides that every artist who participates in the race must sing. I am a DJ, I don’t sing. We reasoned with Carlo on several possibilities to have the piece in the race, but we could not find a square that satisfied the regulation of the festival and we who wrote the song. Then Conti had this idea of making it the abbreviation and for me it was a great honor. “
