Giorgia, the return to Sanremo: “A young artist must win”

For Giorgia, the Ariston stage is “an appointment”, as well as representing “a test”. This year, in which the thirty years after the victory with “Come saprei”the Roman artist returns to the competition Sanremo 2025 with “The cure for me”. “For me, the Ariston stage represented and represents a test. A test also with respect to oneself”, the singer tells Rockol: “In general, live is a test, and when you step on such an important stage you have to put everything you are on the linewhat you have, without fear of doing so. In general I can say that, for me, the Ariston stage is an appointment.”

The return to Sanremo and the predictions

For her return to the Festival, two years after her participation with “Parole dette male” and last year’s experience as co-host, the singer presents a piece written by Blanco with production by Michelangelo. And it was precisely the song that pushed Giorgia, fresh from hosting the X Factor, to return to the competition. “It all started with Sanremo a year ago, when Amadeus gave me the opportunity to be co-host”, explains Giorgia in the press conference: “This started me towards a different path that I enjoyed experimenting with And then came the incredible experience of hosting the X Factor, a rich and intense experience that allowed me to learn new things.”

With the desire to seek “continuously new inputs”, and the support of the Slait team, for the voice of “Girasole” the musical path in 2024 has never stopped. In addition to the single “Niente di male”, the involvement in Disney’s “Oceania 2” and the song for the film “Diamanti” by Ferzan Özpetek, more than twenty years after “Gocce di memoria” for “The window in front” , the song has arrived for Giorgia which now brings her back to the Festival. “.From the first listen, ‘La cura per me’ moved me like the songs of the past”, says the artist: “I felt something inside that made me realize that It’s one of those songs I want to sing. After the first auditions, someone from the team dared to say: ‘Should we send it to Carlo Conti?’ It was not expected and it was not in the plans to return to the race in Sanremo. In this return of mine, on the one hand there is poetrythirty years after ‘How would I know’, and on the other there is anxiety and responsibility for what has already been done.”

Unlike the one two years ago, which she herself describes as “an internal Sanremo”, but which “even if it wasn’t a success” allowed her to rediscover “the spark that I thought I had lost”, this year the bookmakers they already proclaim Giorgia as the favorite to win following the pre-listening dedicated to the press of all the competing songs (read our impressions here). “What anxiety!”, jokes the singer: “I appreciate the positive vibebecause in the past I have also experienced the negative one. However, we know that usually the predictions never get us right. Above all, I believe that The boys have to win Sanremo. I want to do something done well. My race is to be able to do what I have to do, done well. Then the rest is all something more. Being of another age allows you to experience Sanremo in a different way. Sanremo can do you good even beyond the victory, if the project is built well. Then, I repeat, he must win a little boy or a little boy. Thirty years ago I won against Morandi and Fiorello: absurd things happen in Sanremo.” On the sidelines of the meeting with the press, Giorgia underlines to Rockol:

“I really think some recent artist needs to win. For me, my challenge is to be able to excite like thirty years ago. ‘How would I know’ then he said: ‘Moving more and more.’ We hope to achieve some of that emotion. If I succeed, it means that at least with myself I will have won.”

“The cure for me”

“The cure for me”, explains Giorgia to Rockol, “it truly reawakened ancient enthusiasms and it’s a song I’ve been looking for for a long time.” Unveiling what this song said the first time you listened to it and what it represents now who made it her own, the singer adds: “The first time I listened to it was an audition sung by Blanco, and it moved me a lot because he has this style with desperation in his voice. It was a little gem in itself. Then when I worked on it, I tried to make it more mine.” And he adds:

“I must say that the text struck me immediately, but even more so when I sang it, because I feel it belongs very much to my experience, to my personality, even to my emotional sphere. Because it talks about some emotions, deep feelings, which lead you to transformation. Which is another thing I believe in a lot. So, I already felt it was a bit mine and it became even more mine. I therefore hope to be able to convey all the emotions that the song provoked in me and try to pass them on to the listener. Music reaches places that we otherwise never touch in any other way. Perhaps the message I want to convey in Sanremo is precisely that of reaching emotion. Believe that emotion. Because when we get emotional it is one of the moments in which we human beings become, in my opinion, more sensitive and therefore more receptive to the outside”.

In describing the collaboration with Blanco and Michelangelo on “La cura per me”, Giorgia highlights: “I feel like the song is mine because I worked a bit on the melody. I find it more difficult to sing a song with more modern writing than an opening on the notes. This song has both sides: what I am and what I would like to be”. Regarding the text he adds: “The search for words at the moment is complicated compared to thirty years ago, because when you grow up and talk about a feeling, the words must belong to you. ‘The cure for me’ is a text that as a woman I feel is very mine – I wish I could have written it myself.

The care we seek externally, typical of our society, in reality we must seek within ourselves, we must learn love because otherwise we love to fill a void.” Regarding the musical research and the comparison with the voice of “Blu celeste” and its producer, he states: “.I like to deal with changing music because it is a source of inspiration. I’ve always tried not to repeat myself. Sometimes it’s better, other times worse. But musical research for me is lifeblood, it is life. In new music I find something that belongs to me at the root. In the work of Michelangelo and Blanco I found awareness and classicism that you wouldn’t expect from two guys, but from two musicians. Blanco has talent and sensitivity in writing. In the musical part I found melodies and harmonies that were much more classic than I expected. The verse is more contemporary but the lyrics are more nineties.”

When asked if “La cura per me” could somehow have the possibility of becoming a new generational anthem like her past songs, Giorgia says she is hopeful: “When I met Slait, I told him that I wish I had a new song that could stick. I hope this is it, and if it’s not, we’ll keep looking. The Sanremo of the nineties were different. At the time I didn’t realize that we were singing things that we would carry forward for thirty years and that would accompany new generations. I would therefore like ‘La cura per me’ to be another song not to be left out of concert setlists”.

Without going too far into predictions, for the duet evening the singer reveals that “many things have already been thought of”, especially after having proposed “Luce” and “Di sole e d’azzurro” in 2023 with Elisa as a guest. And to a question about connection in the title between “The cure for me” and “The cure” by Franco BattiatoGiorgia replies: “I would never think of doing ‘La cura’ as a cover. It’s too big to do it. Those two little words that come after, in the title of my song, make you understand that we are on another level of humanity. I consider Battiato as one of those artists not to be remade. I have little courage to sing that song, it would require an overwhelming emotional effect: singing it would involve internal work and an awareness that I don’t feel I have at the moment.”

In addition to the Festival

The musical direction undertaken for “La cura per me” began in some way to outline that of next recording project by Giorgia. “I’m trying to make a new album”, reveals the artist, who published her latest studio work, “Blu”, in 2023: “I’m never ready, but luckily I have someone who forces me. I’m entrusting myself to my team, I want to be guided. Musically I really need to join forces.” He then tells Rockol: “The musical direction for ‘The Cure for Me’ wasn’t very easy to achieve. There was a lot of work, I asked for a lot of changes. It was born as a ballad but, despite having kept it that way, at a certain point becomes a contemporary pop piece. There was work on rhythm, on sounds. It has a raw, almost naked ballad part, and then comes the fuller part, which however always remains very essential. And this it’s a bit of an imprint that will be in future thingswhich we will pursue for the next recording project. If I ever succeed.”

In addition to a new album, after Sanremo the time will come for Giorgia to return in concert. First for celebrate thirty years of “Come Saprei” together with the public on three occasions: on 13 June at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, on 25 July at the Greek Theater in Syracuse and on 16 September at the Royal Palace of Caserta. Subsequently, in November, the singer will embark on a new tour in the sports halls Italians with stops in Jesolo, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Milan, Padua and Bari.

The connection with Sanremo

The list of Giorgia’s participations in Sanremo is longoutlines a story of continuity and returns. “My family is a musician and we have always followed him,” says the artist about his family connection with the Festival. Choosing two of the songs from the history of Sanremo that she is most attached tothen explains: “There are many songs from past or more recent Festivals that resonate with me. One of the songs that I identify with one of the most beautiful Sanremos is ‘Light’ by Elisa. That year, in 2001, hosted by Raffaella Carrà, there was an incredible cast. Another song it is for sure ‘Cursed Spring’ by Loretta Goggi. I remember sitting under the table singing it because I was ashamed. I had found the lyrics and started humming it, to test myself with the wonderful notes she made. Luckily, I was able to tell him.”