Just stumbled, Blanco wants to go back to running

In the last edition of the Sanremo Festival he left his mark, but without showing himselfwithout being directly protagonist as happened instead in 2022 when he won paired with Mahmood with “chills” Or as badly happened in 2023 with the performance “Destroy Flowers” in the role of guest. This year was a repositioning operation in the sign of art and music, After an obviously not simple and reorganization moment. Blanco, during the Italian Song Festival, in fact, He made his debut as the author of three songs in the race, signing the songs of Giorgia, Noemi and Irama.

Manager gearbox

This is the first ring of a new path, this is because there is a news in the news: the artist, who with his first songs in 2020 amazed for punk soul and writing style, Stefano Clessi’s Eclectic Music Group has returned to work with the first manager (who published on social media a photo together with the writing “Erasmus finished. Welcome back home”), In fact, breaking the path taken with Shablo and his teamwho have followed him in recent years of career. And on the horizon there may also be a label change. Thanks to the work of the manager, talent scout and producer, also in Sanremo with the piece “My word”, Blancito Bebe has reached very important goalsconsolidating his figure, but he also committed some who artistically, from the outside, can be considered false steps, and who perhaps led the two to say goodbye.

False steps

At the top of the list, analyzing the road traveled by the singer, there are first of all two: in July 2023as part of the tour “in love stadiums”, Blanco has become The youngest artist to have performed on the stage of the Olympic stadium, and the second date of the tour saw him tread the San Siro stadium in Milan. A premature choice: Riccardo Fabbriconi, this is his real name, born in 2003, while keeping up all in all from the point of view of performance, this is because he has always been a stage animal, He did not have a large and consolidated repertoire to afford a double show in the stadiums. That was in all respects a carpiato leap: from the clubs and the summer arenas to the spotlight of the stadiums, without “medium” phases, without going from the buildings or other, But everything in a beat of eyelashes, burning the stages. Always in 2023 it came out The documentary “burning the sky”, a little self -referential and without a real pulp from the point of view of storytellingbut how could it have been otherwise, since Blanco, at the time he was just twenty years old?

In June of the following year, the artist published a single “Desnuda”, sung entirely in Spanish and inspired by a trip to Medellín, Colombiawhere the video clip of the song was also made. A piece that should have projected the young talent in the foreign market, perhaps prelude to a wider project, but which in the end is over Simply to displace fanswhich expected a return to the more focus and credible scenes. Here is another stumbled. Of another breath and more centered the “Adrenaline” piece, with Marracash and Baby Gangcontained in the album “The angel of evil” of the rapper of Lecco. The feeling, in looking from the Blanco’s process from above, is that, on the street, something has been lost: That romantic authenticity, with wild features, which characterized it to the beginning making it a shiny name of Italian music, has slowly left field to a more combed figure And reassuring, less disruptive.

Identity

This step is perceived clearly even by listening to “Celestial blue”an excellent debut album released in 2021and then “In love”published in 2023a good project in which the young artist’s initial restlessness softens and goes to mix with more conventional loves of love. The visceral and the sentimental one are the two sides of Blanco, his two faces that is right convince without however canceling or distorting themselvesmaking one or the other prevail. His return, in which he cannot be missing The figure of Michelangelohis manufacturer and sound sculptor, he certainly passes through this awareness and, perhaps, also for a more linear artistic direction, far from gigantisms or head shots, with what really matters in the center: identity. Blanco wants to go back to running, as in the first videos.