C‘It’s a reason why, every time Eros Ramazzotti tunes the guitaran entire generation of women takes a deep breath. It’s not so much a question of hits, but of how he was able to give a name – and a melody – to states of mind that previously had no citizenship in Italian pop. Tonight, as super guest of the third evening of Sanremo 2026, Eros brings more than his music, an entire imagination. We have selected the six “women” in his songs who, after all, were all a bit of us.
Eros Ramazzotti, the singer who made love for women a profession (and that’s not a flaw)
Forty years of career, two hundred million records sold worldwide, a name that in Latin America is as valuable as a family surname. Yet Eros Ramazzotti has never stopped doing one thing: talking about love. Not the glossy and unattainable one of international pop, but the real one, with its own uncertainties, its suburban roots, its goodbyes that don’t make any noise.
He sang about women like few others in Italian pop: not as objects of desire or extras in a self-centered story, but as protagonists with a psychology, a weight, a light of their own. Girlfriends, partners, wives, daughters. Maybe this is the secret: Eros has always made every woman feel like the only recipient. And in some ways, it really was.
Doubts and the desire to commit (An important story1985)
Eros sings of himself – someone who has always found excuses to avoid true love – in front of one woman who is not easily conquered. «While you close them to defend yourself, your fear is also a bit like mine»: she is not an easy conquest, she has her defenses, her history. He is the one chasing her, wanting to convince her. A small revolution for Italian pop in 1985: the suburban boy who begs, not who seduces.
The ideal woman (I will marry you because1988)
It is perhaps the most detailed and affectionate portrait of a woman in her entire discography. In I will marry you because, Eros lists the reasons why he wants to marry her: she has character, she is stubborn but honest, a football fan, she never asks him the wedding date. She is not the ideal and unattainable woman of romantic pop: she is a real person, with precise strengths and weaknesses. A declaration of love that looks more like a shopping list than a sonnet, and that’s exactly why it works.
The absolute inspiration (More beautiful thing1996)
Perhaps the most famous love dedication of the last thirty years. Here the woman – in this specific case Eros’ ex-wife, Michelle Hunziker – becomes muse, but a real, carnal, everyday muse. «Thank you for existing» became the mantra of every declaration of lovetransforming the beauty of everyday life into something extraordinary.
The daughter of Eros Ramazzotti (The Aurora1997)
With The AuroraEros leaves the perimeter of romantic love and reaches something more absolute. The song, dedicated to her newborn daughteris one of the purest declarations of love in his discography: there is no desire, there is no loss, there is only wonder. The woman who will become Aurora is already, in these notes, someone extraordinary. A song that was recently reinterpreted with Alicia Keys and which the two will perform at Sanremo 2026.
The woman of desire (Fire in the fire2000)
With Carlos Santana on guitar and an unusual erotic charge for Italian pop, Fire in the fire it is the portrait of a woman who lights up everything she touches. It is her eyes, her body, her presence that act as protagonists — he chases her, observes her, is overwhelmed by her. No promises of eternal love: just an attraction that burns and doesn’t ask for permission.
Eros Ramazzotti in 2003, the year of release of An emotion forever. (ANSA / PAL)
The strength of rebirth (An emotion forever2003)
Eros sings the end of a love without rancor, celebrating what remains. She is the woman aware that, even when a story ends, the value of what has been experienced remains intact. A mature vision that speaks to those who know that letting go is an act of courage, not defeat.
The woman who saves (My favorite day2025)
The comeback singlewritten with Calcutta and Tommaso Paradiso, is perhaps the most contemporary song that Eros Ramazzotti has ever written. He feels lost, alone despite everything. And then she comes: «Take your glasses and come down, we will look for all the sun together to feel wonderful». It’s not a grand romantic gesture, it’s something small and real. And that’s exactly why it works. Forty years of career, and Eros still finds a way making love seem like the simplest and most necessary thing in the world. Tonight, seeing him go up on that stage will be like leafing through a photo album. Our.
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