Voce among the most promising of the new Italian scene, Tredici Pietro debuts competing in Sanremo 2026 with the song Falling man. After a successful year – from the album Don’t look down al featuring with Fabri Fibra in What a taste there is –, the rapper from Bologna will present a song at the Ariston that blends hip hop, R’n’B and singer-songwriter influencesmixing everything with an arrangement with a refined groove.
Tredici Pietro at Sanremo 2026 with the song Falling man. The lyrics and meaning of the song
Falling man – written by Pietro together with Antonio Di Martino and Marco Spaggiari – is built on intense chords with a retro taste, in which the verses alternate with an open and bright refraincapable of evoking a lightness that amplifies the profound theme of the song. The song tells the story of life as a continuous movement, made up of research, falls and restarts. A song that explores the natural urgency of the human being to never be satisfied and to constantly get back into the game. Falling and starting again a cycle that is an integral part of existence.
In the song, Thirteen Peter sing that there is no real starting point or final goal: there is only the pathand it is precisely there that one’s internal image takes meaning and shape. For the artist – defined as a crossover between rap and songwriting – participation in the Sanremo Festival marks an important step which comes after a particularly appreciated album. During which his musical identity was forcefully defined and authenticity.
Who is Tredici Pietro, the rapper son of Gianni Morandi
Born in Bologna in 1997, Pietro Morandi (aka Tredici Pietro) is the son of Gianni Morandi and his second wife Anna Dan. Half-brother of Marianna and Marco Morandi – the children Gianni had with Laura Efrikian -, Since he was a child, Pietro became interested in music, in particular rapstarting to write his first songs in middle school.
Thirteen Peter. (Words For You Press Office)
The first single was released in June 2018 Pizza and Figs which immediately attracted the attention of the public. The songs will be released later Little Peter, Rick and Morty And Passportwith which the artist progressively manages to detach itself from any prejudiceevolving his own style and demonstrating his unique personality.
It comes out in 2019 Absurdthe first official projectwhich features Madame in Scoundrel; in September of the same year he collaborated with Lil Busso for the track €1/Second and the single is released Clothes of hate feat. Psychologists. The collaboration with the duo returns in June 2020 for the first official Psychologists album, entitled Millennium Bug in which Tredici Pietro appears as a featuring on the track Funeral.
Career, personal problems and recent success together with Fabri Fibra
In 2022 Pietro publishes Usual place, usual troubles, album that debuted in the Top 5 of the official FIMI/Gfk ranking of the best-selling vinyls in Italy driven by the single Watch my back. Success, however, soon turns into a dark periodas the singer recently stated in an interview with The Messenger. «In 2023 I moved from Bologna to Milan also to live with my ex, I went haywire and started engaging in self-harming behavior. I felt like a loser, because there you have to be cool at all costs, follow trends, always be seen. He never had suicidal thoughts though I hurt myself by abusing psychotropic drugs».
After hospitalization and analysis, releases the rebirth album in April 2025 Don’t look down while it comes out in May What a taste there issingle by Fabri Fibra who chose the voice of Tredici Pietro as the special featuring of the song. After a club tour last December, the rapper will re-release as a deluxe edition Don’t look down on February 27. The album, in addition to the original tracks, will include the unpublished The rush And Falling man.
Thirteen Pietro and Carlo Conti during the “Sanremo Giovani” final last December. (Getty Images)
The Cover evening: Tredici Pietro sings a song by his father Gianni and Lucio Dalla
On Friday evening, the rapper will perform the song on the stage of the Ariston theater Life by Lucio Dalla and Gianni Morandi, accompanied by Galeffi, Fudasca & band. A meeting between friends and artists with whom Tredici Pietro shared stage and studio sessions, up to the evening dedicated to covers at the Sanremo Festival. To further strengthen that artistic partnership of mutual respect that has long linked them.
The musical meeting with Galeffi and Fudasca led these artists to collaborate on several occasionsie, for this evening, Pietro has chose to involve his band and his old friends once againwith whom he shared the most decisive steps of his career between tours and a record made in synergy.
