Loredana Bertè won the Mia Martini Critics Award of Sanremo 2024 for the song Crazy. Award always coveted by singer for obvious reasons. In 1996 he helped rename it to include his sister’s name (who passed away the year before) through an intense campaign, practically calling every person in charge, from Pippo Baudo to every official assistant.
The announcement is anything but a surprise. The song had in fact ended up in first place in the first Top 5 of the festival, the one voted by the press room at the end of the first evening of Sanremo. Enthusiastic and moved, Loredana had thanked the journalists by making an appearance on the roof of the Ariston.
At Sanremo 2024, Loredana Bertè finally won the Mia Martini Critics’ Award
«I wanted to thank you all so much», his words to the room, «as you know my comfort zone is the last place. Luckily she was already lying in bed the other night and so I didn’t hurt myself, because I would have fainted at the announcement. I had thought about calling Clerici to get two stoves and so make a giant pasta out of it, like I did to Andy Warhol.”
Loredana Bertè in Valentino during the Sanremo 2024 final. (Getty Images)
On the same occasion he said of wanting to win Sanremo to go to Eurovision, to annoy her ex-husband Borg (the festival will take place in Malmo, Sweden). And, why not, win everything at this point, that is, also the Mia Martini Critics’ Award. Ready done. And who knows what emotion upon delivery.
Crazya song-manifesto of those with which Loredana’s entire career is dotted, it has the difference of being a conciliatory portrait. In which anger and pain are blunted. That is, they are no longer weapons against everyone, but pieces of a life to love. «I would always like to be perfect, but I’m not», says Bertè. Which has always made her love him recklesslyeven if the self-destruction to which he has subjected himself in an almost surgical way since Mimi’s death, remains a tragic and private affair.
In 2008 he won the City of Sanremo Lifetime Achievement Award, while in 2019 she was awarded the Ariston Public Award; public rose up for the fourth place of What do you expect from me.
All Loredana’s times in Sanremo
Loredana participated in the Sanremo festival 12 times, including this last one. Her debut – with a bang – was in 1986, an edition that eliminated the playback but not the backing tracks. She gets there with the first rock song of the festival (Kingwritten by Mango) and a fake baby bump. The uproar linked to the look (copied 25 years later by Gaga) is so great that (she says) she is forced to hitchhike home. But Emi seriously severed her contract and upcoming albumand the years to come are alternately up and down (from Borg to Mia dying).
In 1988 he competed with I, finishing sixteenth. After getting married in 1991, painful but more centered than the post-’86 shocksing In this town by Pino Daniele (only eighteenth).
Then it’s time to We are as we are paired with Mia (penultimate position). Instead with I don’t have any friendsa delightfully ironic text, regains commercial success and above all the affection of the public (the song stops in thirteenth place).
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