Goodbye to Pippo Baudo: Tributes of the artists, from Morandi to Giorgia

There are many artists, the important personalities and the notes of the show, who in the last few hours have made homage with memories and tributes to Pippo Baudo, who passed away yesterday – July 16 – at the age of 89.

Among the best -known faces of Italian television, Baudo has conducted numerous editions of varieties programs, holding the record of conductions of the “Sanremo Festival”, has contributed to launching or relaunching numerous artists such as – among others – Milva, Mietta, Anna Oxa and Giuni Russo, has been a launching springboard for challenges of characters such as Andrea Bocelli, Giorgia, Laura Pausini, Fabrizio, Elio and the tense and others stories, and he also co -founded several songs for prominent artists of the Italian music scene, such as – for example – “A Sunday so” (1967) for Gianni Morandi, “Love for Life” (1968) and “La Balena” (1980) for Orietta Berti.

“Nobody did for Italian music what he did,” he remembered, on his official social channels, Enrico Ruggeri: “He had sensed, culture, love. He knew how to keep the word given, he had care for details, he looked for the quality but also people. He loved the music that lasted over time. What displeasure, what empty”.

“Pippo, as you do now write to tell you bye, to say everything you have been and that you will continue to be in memory and heart”, always wrote on his social channels, Giorgia: “The photos will not be enough, the words,
I console me that we have given us things to the last, with all the possible affection, and here to honor at least a little your fundamental contribution to our history to our culture. I leave a big thank you for the passion with which you have always done your art, for what you have given for the one you believed in, and for what you did for me, ‘You invented us, we are all sad today. I hope you can see it. “

“I cannot believe that I am writing this message,” Laura Pausini posted on their Instagram channel: “There are men who in this life and in this land have left an indelible mark on their talent and genius. One of them became 32 years ago the man who changed my life to me, choosing me at just 18 years of age among the new voices of Sanremo 93 and from that moment he never left me. familiar. Many times: I love you so much “.

“You did not grow me at home, but on the stage of life”, they are the words used to remember Baudo from Eros Ramazzotti: “With your reassuring voice, with your careful gaze and your safe hand, you have been guiding, master and confidant. If fate gave me a father of blood, you have been the father of the artistic soul, the one who encourages, who opens, who believes when the others always in my thoughts “.

“Hello dear Great Pippo”, reads in the memory posted by Jovanotti on his official Instagram account: “I wanted you so much well and you wanted me and I felt it and filled me with joy. Knowing you and working with you was ‘fantastic’, you were a giant of the show and a splendid man an affectionate affectionate hungry funny and magical funny and magical. There will never be again.

While Donatella Rettore has chosen the synthesis with a short “our teacher”, Morandi has always entrusted to social media a long message writing: “I am very grieved. Pippo Baudo has gone. He has kept company to all Italians for 60 years and more. A master, a musician, a conductor, an extraordinary organizer of shows such as the Sanremo Festival, very song, fantastic … Period of crisis, in the early 1980s, with his precious advice and inviting me to his transmissions.

Marco Masini is also added, who wrote in his greeting: “Thanks for the trust you gave me and for all you have done, for me and for all the music!. Hi Pippo, you will always remain here, with and inside each of us”.

The tribute by Gianluca Grignani, on the other hand, is a leap in the past, a special memory: “It was he who felt my story for the first time between the fingers and predicted for this first song of mine a great future”, wrote: “I and I have always been the devil and angel, but the music has always kept us tied. I already miss you, Mr. Pippo”.

By choosing to be direct and short, Gianna Nannini said: “Hi Pippo, you are always a great show”.

Among the taxes, the memory of Carlo Conti also arrived, returned to the helm of Sanremo as a conductor and artistic director from the edition of this year: “Hi Pippo, with you the TV is spent, the TV you invented, that you did with love and genius, the TV where you created singers and comedians”, wrote: “I was grateful to you as a spectator then immensely as a colleague. Hello Maestro”.

In memory of Pippo Baudo there is no lack of taxes of political personality such as Giorgia Meloni, of journalists such as Enrico Mentana and well -known faces of television.