Musicultura 2024, Anna Castiglia wins
From X Factor to the victory of the festival dedicated to the new promises of songwriting: Anna Castiglia is the overall winner of Musicultura 2024.
“Thank you, thank you so much! I dedicate this victory to Ernesto Assante, my music history teacher at the Conservatory and I want to donate part of the prize to pro-Palestine associations; celebrating is beautiful but we must not forget what is happening in the world” said the singer-songwriter Catania at the end of the thirty-fifth edition of the Marche festival. Anna Castiglia with the song “Ghali” won the 20,000 euro Banca Macerata Prize thanks to the votes of the Sferisterio audience of the two evenings and the 2,000 euro prize for the best text. of the Universities of Macerata and Camerino. “The song is a hymn to guilt, it speaks, in an ironic way, of victims and victimhood, of the need to always find a scapegoat on which to place the blame for our failures, so as not to take responsibility and Ghali is the typical victim of us songwriters”, he explained. Anna Castiglia, 25 years old from Catania, a classical guitar student, attends the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory in Milan and is co-founder of the Canta Fino a Dieci project, a collective of feminist singer-songwriters who combats the gender gap in the musical world. In September she will release her first album.