Lucio Corsi in Sanremo 2025: “The songs must take you elsewhere”

An alien. A refined singer-songwriter who loves the magic and at the same time the concreteness of sound. A Ziggy Stardust directly from Vetulonia, “the wild west”as he himself describes it. Lucio Corsi arrives at the Sanremo Festivalfor the first time, with the song “Volevo essere un duro”. “He talks about how much the world would like us to be infallible, with the solidity of stones and the perfection of flowers, without telling us, however, that all flowers are hanging by a thread. It talks about the fact that it is normal to become something other than what you dreamed of, and that all this shouldn’t be scary”, says the artist, who currently He already has three albums and plays the role of outsider to the next edition of the event on the Ligurian Riviera. “I experienced an internal struggle, classic for many musicians, based on the question: am I going to Sanremo or not? I’ve already been on that stage playing at the Premio Tenco – recalls Corsi – some of my absolute points of reference have never been there, but others have, I’m thinking of Ivan Graziani, Lucio Dalla and Vasco. Who to listen to? In the restaurant I frequent, in Milan, in the old Niguarda, everyone told me: “go, go”. And in the end I went.”

And then he turns, as if he were between the words, back to the songs, which is what he cares about most: “Songs that tell reality exactly as it is, bore me. For me, music should make us travel with our mind, almost deceive us, take us somewhere else. As a kid I played on the street. On those occasions you have to try to convince people to stop and listen to you, it’s not easy at all. They are all formative experiences that lead an artist to know how to manage increasingly larger stages such as that of the Festival. It’s definitely challenging, but I want to try to experience it like a live show, like a concertenjoy it.” By involving him in inflated questions, little or nothing is achieved: “Tony Effe’s participation in the Festival and the controversy over rap lyrics? Well, “hot topics” are hot for me. I can’t talk about it. I prefer the cold ones. How about we talk about Dylan’s transition from acoustic to electric guitar? (laughs, ed.).

A curiosity: in “Life as Carlo – Third Season”the television series by and with Carlo Verdone, Corsi takes part in an imaginary festival. A premonition? “When I filmed the series I didn’t yet know that I would go to Sanremo. But in fact there are many aspects that made the experience of the series almost a premonition. I went from one Carlo to another (Conti, ed.). Verdone is a bluesman, he is a great music lover, it was wonderful working with him,” he recalls. After leaving the Festival he will have the opportunity to present a new album and go on a tour. Also in the lineup is the single “Tu sei il Mattin”, released last November. The song is the sweet and dreamy memory of first love from the point of view of those who, now grown up, find themselves thinking about the past with melancholy. The video clip, directed by Tommaso Ottomano and featuring Carlo Verdone, almost has the intent to destroy the romanticism of the song. At the center of the scene is a cold, so unstoppable that it overwhelms and upsets all the characters that revolve around the story. “The concerts start again in April. Chasing songs from city to city is undoubtedly the thing I love most, it’s the thing I’ve dreamed of since I was a child – he admits – going on stage means encountering music, as Paolo Conte says in ‘Alle con una verde milonga’. Furthermore, each stage is a springboard towards another reality, up there I can really imagine being something else”.