Sanremo has returned Neffa to Italian music

Ten minutes left at 1 at night, between Friday and Saturday, when On the Ariston stage there was an epiphany. In front of the audience of the theater of the city of Fiori – and the one composed of the millions of spectators glued in front of the TV at home – Neffa came out of the shade in which it had remained in recent years, recovering his space in the Italian scene. It happened during the evening of the cover of the Sanremo Festival 2025. The merit of Shablo, Guè, Joshua and Tormentowho decided to propose a medley between “Amor de Mi Vita” of the undertone and “Waiting for the sun“, The song that Neffa engraved in 1996 for the album” Neffa & I Messengeri della Dopa “, which has long been considered a worship album by the followers of the Italian rap scene: together with Shablo & Co.

The 57 -year -old Scafati artist moved the hands of the time back thirty years. Patience that the cover of the quintet was ranked only seventeenth on twenty -nine performances :.It was one of the most relevant musically (and pussies) of the festivalThat He returned Neffa to Italian music four years after the release of his latest album, “Amarammore”engraved everything in Neapolitan, the language of its origins, well before the Geolier phenomenon became such, challenging all marketing logic.

In short, Neffa is back. To stay. The voice of “My Miss” announced “Universe Neffa”, a concert scheduled for the next November 5 at the Assago Forumin Milan, to celebrate the status of classic conquered over the years: “Did I have to be away forever? Or how long still? The fact is that the moment has come when it is official that I missed – he wrote to the hard core of his fanbase, who in recent years has never stopped waiting for him – then I come to take stock.

But also “dago”, for the umpteenth time. I can’t say I can bring my story, because the stories are more than one. And there will be time for everyone. And one just written, waiting for other new ones ». THE’.allusion to the new unpublished album Ready to be pulled out in the drawer is clear. And in fact in the last few hours Neffa has published on his Instagram account the recording of an unpublished song with which he remarked that he still has many, many things to say (we did not doubt). Also launching some arrows to the new generations: «Come and hear that I have to say with ‘ste rhymes / with’ this brand already recorded by mo have passed 30 years and pass / still en masse you can hear that they copy me / you know who are ghosts who tend to disappear / the others instead that return / I’m senile but if you need style you still hunt you».

Another song will be contained in the new album by Noemiout in a few days, on February 28, “Nostalgia“: This is what the red Roman singer’s album gave the title, who wanted to engrave him in a duet with the same Neffa. It was she who brought him to Sanremo the last time, before the apparition of this year with Shablo, Guè, Joshua and Torento, when in 2021 he sang his “before leaving” on the evening of the covers (Neffa did not seem to ‘Ariston for six years, as many as they had passed since the 2015 participation with “Dreams and Nostalgia”): “He wrote “nostalgia” during the first Lockdown, is a song that has the courage to talk about feelings and solitude we live. The text is a cry that I have heard very strong, a hymn to excite and live everything, always. In today’s world emotions are very afraid»Said Noemi of the piece signed by the songwriter.

Already in 2021 he signed for her “You don’t owe”, contained in the album “Metamorphosis”: one of the many songs baked by Neffa in recent years, even without being seen around, as “eclipse” with Gemitaiz, “Universe” with Deda and Fabri Fibra, “on the carousel” and “leaves” with the same fiber. The new generations – in addition to copying it, to mention it – celebrate it and venerate it. In 2021.thasup resumed his “Far from your sun“And he re -elaborated it (renamed” a right direction “), with its hand: together they won three platinum records, equal to 300 thousand copies sold.

Already last April Neffa tried the ground in view of a return. He did it by publishing on social networks the draft of a skit with a title that was all a program, “of the Olympus”. The text was a challenge glove launched to the new generation phenomena That in a handful of clic they pass from the bedrooms to the top of the charts and with a couple of gold records they already feel: «I know how it is when you are a boy / rags and do the cool / but as you do friend if you lose the Filo / You will wonder how when you ever write the book / you live very quickly in this world ». The times for the return of the Guaglione on the track now seem to be finally ripe.