“AND a small place, where everyone knows and loves me by now, but not everyone knows that I’m a singer. I have more freedom because they don’t recognize me. It is a place very similar to Sicily. There are all those succulent plants there too, the prickly pears». As Marcella Bella, 70, talks about her new life in Ibiza, where she moved and lives with her husband Mario Merello, entrepreneur. The singer from Catania of Green Mountains he told it to Mara Venier in the latest episode of Sunday In.
Dropping everything and going to live on an island: that desire that takes everyone at least once in a lifetime for the singer has come true. Why Ibiza? “I love the contact with so many people.”
Marcella Bella talks about her new life in Ibiza
The singer has been very selective for years now she has become very selective with professional commitments. «If I hadn’t been so selective, after 50 years I would have bored everyone. I have been here for many years and they still love me just because I didn’t give myself too much. Over time I took breaks to devote myself to my family and my children, who are the most important thing”. You told Mara Venier. She really understood it after the first one, James, «he reproached me for having left him with the grandmothers. So when the other two were born, after 15 years, I enjoyed them and I didn’t want them to reproach me».
Loving grandmother to her grandchildren who live in Singapore
Giacomo now lives in Singapore for professional reasons. «He has always been a lover of the Orient. I never accepted him, every now and then I send him fiery messages, arguing that his children will grow up ignorant because they don’t have our culture and our beauty, immersed as they are in modernity and skyscrapers. Let’s say I work with children, the two grandchildren: when they come in the summer, I always organize a birthday with unicorns and everything they love».
Marcella Bella in 1972. (Photo by Rino Petrosino/Mondadori via Getty Images)
Marcella Bella’s hug to her brother Gianni
The interview also includes a hug to his brother, Gianni Bella, struck in 2015 by a stroke. Six years her senior, he contributed, and not a little, to his sister’s success. From Green Mountainswhich Gianni wrote together with Giancarlo Bigazzi, to the very sensual In the aircomposed with Mogul. «Gianni is fine and is preparing a festival in which many young people will sing his songs». Already in 2015 at Dal Verme Theatre of Milan, an evening event was held to retrace his successes, as a singer and as a composer (from My beloved enemy, sung by Gianni Morandi, a The emotion has no voice, brought to success by Adriano Celentano). The concert, entitled uA beautiful evening… for you Giannthehad seen the participation of artists who have always been close to the Bella brothers such as Loredana Bertè, Umberto Tozzi, Mario Biondi, Mario Lavezzi.
Marcella Bella, Mara Venier and the jealousy of many summers ago
But there is also one “jealousy space”: Mara Venier and Marcella Bella in fact recalled a vacation they took together, a summer many years ago. “I wasn’t jealous of you, even if you were nice to my husband …”, Marcella Bella teased Venier. The presenter immediately toned down the reference. «No, I never have husbands and boyfriends. I have always had free men…» she replied piqued. And Marcella insisted: «But you liked him…».
Marcella Bella with Mario Merello, 1989 (Photo by Angelo Deligio/Mondadori via Getty Images)
“Well yes, he was a fascinating man. I remember your jealousy, one day on a boat you were jealous of a woman and threw her out of the house. You were right, you saw it long. But better not to say her name, we don’t say it… ».
The secret of a love that lasts
Jealousy aside, Marcella has given the public her secret to such a lasting love. She is her husband they got married 44 years ago: they had met in the snow of Madonna di Campiglio. He was married and already a father, she was very young and became pregnant, causing a scandal.
«Love transforms for a lifetime, passion too. Over time, even more important things take over, such as mutual respect and esteem. He still says today that he would do everything again, that he would answer me ». But was Mario instead jealous of a woman like Marcella, who also played with sensuality in her career? «He has never been jealous of my job, but of someone who has tried to woo me».
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