CONEFESSO to GIORGIA to have asked information on her to artificial intelligence. I looked for a definition from the empowerment point of view. Out of curiosity, Chioso. “So what did he tell you?” He asks interested, with his spontaneous attitude. I read it to him: “Although he never defined herself militant feminist, Giorgia has made her authenticity, fragility and personal complexity of her political act”.
The singer burst into a laugh: “I like it, I find myself, I would like to be remembered in eternity”. His cat Naomi, one of the four he has, in the meantime passes in front of us on the video call monitor. He stands out with his dark shiny mantle. «Her mother Nina, the only time she left the house, has returned pregnant and she has I gave birth to four kittens on my son Samuel’s bed, who had to improvise obstetric “ remember.
And away another contagious laugh. We are both “cat” and, therefore, I do not surprise myself when he tells me that he goes on vacation with the cats and, if he moves away, speaks to them to reassure them. “After my son they command them at home, I perform,” he confides.
Giorgia celebrates thirty years from the success of As I know
Giorgia, 54, voice of Italian music, Just this year he celebrates thirty years of career, from the success of how I know, with whom he won Sanremo in 1995. To celebrate he will be on tour throughout Italy with the “As I would know live” at the start on June 13 in Rome (three dates in Syracuse, in July) to then continue from winter in the Palasport (Rome, Milan, Florence).
Presenter a X factor, where she has just been reconfirmed, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for the song Diamonds, soundtrack of the latest film of the same name by Ferzan Özpetek and obtained the platinum disc (200 thousand copies sold) for The cure for methe song brought to the last Sanremo.
“I went back to studying singing”
Thirty years from “How I know”: how did the song change and, above all, how did you change in the meantime?
The song at the time was the example of how I wanted it to be my music even if I always wanted to prove that I was able to do anything else. We shortened, modified, incorrect it, and now it is also the symbol of my evolution. Over the past ten years, it has been rather music that changed a lot: writing, the way of writing the sentences, the length of the verses, the breath to use to sing, the sounds. Like so many colleagues from my generation, I had to get back into the game, go back to studying singing, adapting to the new.
Study singing, even?
The logic have changed and I had to try my place again. If they intone a slightly falling note, to say, they do it to me all, I don’t forgive me anything. Now everything is based on numbers, on the algorithms, on the data, everything is shared, but that’s okay, it is right, they are cycles. I consider it a stimulus, a gift, everything always changes. In a different way, of course. In the 90s, the logic was only that of the records sold.
Giorgia: “I had to raise the voice also for useless things”
When did he understand that his voice could also be a form of personal power?
Honestly, I have never connected it to the word “power”. I am convinced that the item passes through a canal that is also spiritual, a sort of connection tool linked to an inner journey. From the voice I understand how I am as a soul. The power, on the other hand, associates it more with the concept of who I am or what I do, how I dominate myself and how it makes me feel in the world.
Did he ever “raise his voice” in the musical environment to be heard?
Of course, continually, since I was 19 years old. Also for useless things. Now it is not so but, in the 90s, when I arrived in a recording studio there were only men who said to me “Sing, do this and do that”, how to say “we know what is fine for you”. Fortunately, by character, I am not able to not react. Now, it will be a coincidence, but in my working group we are almost all women.
And do you work better?
I would like to be able to say that it is not only a matter of gender, but of professionalism and when we no longer notice that it is a woman, then we will have solved the problem. We do not always give ourselves right, but we work well together, we confront each other by putting aside the ego for us. I don’t know why, but in men the ego often takes automatic, I think about the series “I do, I do”. Of course, I also learned to listen to my inner voice. When I ignore it, I feel that they move away from myself and I’m sick. As for the ego, in the long year.
“I don’t have to demonstrate anything to anyone, if not myself”
Giorgia in Sanremo 2025 (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images)
In a long career, stereotype is a risk. How did you manage to remain faithful to herself?
I followed my need. I was going well to be the “girl next door”, which I was also, but then those who came to my concerts also noticed my rebellious nature, rock’n roll. More than an image, I felt I had to adhere to a certain collective consciousness. I was one who went to make the gears of peace with the flags, convinced ecologist, plastic free … I also wanted the music to reflect my commitment. Over time, at some point, something has changed. He had to do with age, I think.
What happened exactly?
I no longer interested me to know how I voted and that I had ideas, that part of me was no longer so urgent, if I had to demonstrate something it was only to myself. I learned that what I do must only be aimed at transmitting emotions, which is then the very sense of music. If a song for two minutes unleashes something in someone’s heart and remember that there is something else in life, then as an artist I did the right thing.
How are your songs born?
From the discipline. There are those days when you know you have to create and nothing comes out, but something you have to do. And then, there are insists. Then I hear that certain note, a conversation at the bar, and something is born, it is the great alchemy of music.
Giorgia: “I could never be a judge at X Factor”
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Is memory drops your favorite?
It is one of those songs that reminds me of having done something well, obviously has a special value (it is dedicated to the ex Alex Baroni, who disappeared in 2002, ed), but over time it has become increasingly precious, now it is incredibly a piece of life that connects many people is a collective heritage, it is no longer only mine.
It is true that his father called her Giorgia in honor of Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles …
In reality he told me he had been the one who had me for me and I even believed it. I told Ray Charles when I met him. He asked me to duet her together. I still have to recover …
Why does the presenter do to X Factor and not the judge?
For a simple reason: I would not feel comfortable, I struggle to say about “no” and I would not be useful to the program. How I can refuse a twenty year old artist, if I would take everyone for me. Instead it was my dream dream to present a show. I entered the bathroom as a child and imitated the young ladies “Good evening”. And then I like to be in contact with the boys, perhaps because I know what they feel, I think I can help them, even if it is relative help because when you are on stage you are alone, a bit like when you are born and die. But empathy is something that comes naturally to me.
“Something magical happened in Sanremo”
Giorgia in Sanremo (Ansa/Ettore Ferrari)
Fourth in Sanremo 2025, but she came out moral winner.
I came back with a right song for me, and then on the Ariston stage, which is always full of surprises, you never know how it will go until you get on it. There were many people also present thirty years ago. The first evening there was a strong connection, as if the sky had sung through me to still make me the gift of being there. The non -victory was sorry for my team, but we all won the same together.
At the Sanremo press conference he said that the quantum physics follows, to feel that we are part of a flow. If it were a particle which message would it inflict on it?
I would write that we are time and how we decide to be, that we must cultivate an inner space to have a vision. We grow up with that of our parents and, then, we often forget to create one, ultimately our soul comes into the world for a mission. And life is only one.
Always speaks of time …
My partner (Emanuel Lo, with whom he has been together since 2003, editor’s note) always tells me that I am heavy on the topic, at 30 I claimed to have already 40. But now I realize that a piece of life has really gone. Fortunately, my son holds me anchored to the present, and he is so intelligent that he could manipulate me and his father and take us on vacation with his friends. There was talk of power, here I don’t have at home …
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