Gaia: “I learned to accept my pop side”

Three and a half years away from the previous album “Alma”, released in October 2021, Gaia (Gozzi) releases his third album entitled “The rose of the winds“, Which comes after the success of the catchphrase”Sex and samba“With Tony Effe and the participation (for the second time) with”I call me, you call you”At the Sanremo Festival 2025.

The return

A considerable absence that the singer Italo Brazilian (Brazilian by mother) explains thus retracing her artistic career started with X Factor and continued with the victory of “Friends”: “I wrote these songs in three years and arrive after the first fast album, made without a real contract. Fuorvious element after that period – continues Gaia – I tried to recover a natural life cycle, I started writing, I traveled a lot. Of which he explains the origin of the title. “Just in that period I saw the twenty rose everywhere: tattooed on the arm of a waiter, in a square by the sea, I even received it in a letter, yes a letter (laughs) written by American friends.

The use of Italian

For this new album Gaia has chosen to use only the Italian language in his texts. “With the Portuguese – he explains – everything was naturally leaving, in a spontaneous and autonomous way, while the use of Italian made me feel a little more distant from a free and creative writing. Brazilian, in Brazil I was the stereotype pizza and mandolin. ” “Italian – he concludes – is a beautiful musical pampering, not that the Brazilian is not beautiful, but the strength of the Italian language cannot be equal.”

Welcome toquinho

However, the link with its Brazilian half remains on this album despite not going through the use of the language but by the collaboration, which also materialized on the Sanremo stage, with the teacher Toquinho (together with her in the evening of the covers). The two duetted on “Wind”, The song that closes the album and written with Michelangelo, Franco126 And Alexander There Quarry. “Vento” is a song that Gaia calls “timeless”, is one of the most author chapters (together with the intense “scars”) of the disc. “Toquinho, like all great – says Gaia – has enormous humility and special generosity.

Sanremo

Stage of Sanremo that Gaia thanks because “it was an enormous showcase, with an unexpected virality” … which led her to be very popular on Tiktok and conquer the radio in Japan with her song. “Sanremo is no longer just an ox eye, it gives a long visibility even afterwards.

Thanks to “Sex and Samba”

Participation in the Sanremo Festival 2025 edition and the new album “La Rosa dei Venti” come after the great success, shared with Tony Effe, obtained with “Sex and Samba”, a catchphrase with the long tail that has depopulated on the radio and in a thousand other contexts and that certainly marked the fate of the singer Italo Brazilian. “It was one thing with an out of the ordinary power, unexpectedly, a snowball that generated an avalanche. fear.”

The Amazon in the heart

Travels, which often faces in solitude, often contribute to it. One of the last (and who entered the album, inspiring “blue smoke”) was in the Amazon, a magical land of his Brazil. “The Amazon was a detachment from life, a journey that showed me a first and afterwards. same.

Now I’m kinder with myself

The concept of change, of movement can be closely linked to the winds, those mentioned in the title of the disc, winds to which Gaia has entrusted himself by letting himself go to the discovery of new ways. “It is true – he says – The wind can bring change.

Live coming soon

On 7 May Gaia will return to perform live. In fact, it will be to present the new album in concert at Fabrique in Milan and “there will be surprises”, so anticipates.