(toskanews) – Francesco Gabbani returns to the Sanremo Festival for the fourth time after winning in 2016 with Amen in the new proposals section and in 2017 with Westerners’ Karma and after placing second in 2020 with Vice versa. A place that is home for him: «Sanremo for me, a priori, is a great joy, a great emotion because in one way or another when I passed by the Festival it has always represented an important moment in my path, not only artistic but truly existential. I won first in the Young and then in the Big, I came second in the last participation of 2020 with Vice versaso let’s say that Sanremo is a happy place for me. So the idea of going back is a great joy, it’s a bit like the idea of returning home or returning to a place where you had a good time on holiday, where you felt good emotions and so you go back.”
Francesco Gabbani towards Sanremo 2025
«It’s obvious that returning to Sanremo involves by default having a tension, a small fear relating to the performance as such. Perform for the first time live nationally, a song that the public has never heard, so it’s a one shot, there is an inevitable tension but I have learned to do one thing, just like in Long live lifeI have learned to accept this fear and perhaps it is also the beautiful thing about Sanremo.”
His song is an open and very positive ballad. «It’s a song in which the title itself tells a bit about the point of arrival of the song, that is Long live life. It is a song that suggests we regain a sense of conscious gratitude towards the fact that we are alive. This conscious acceptance of life is also, it is also a response to the suffering given by the lack of answers to the big questions, the universal ones about the meaning of our existence, which are a bit of torment for all of us human beings.”
«Today we are looking for the answer, we delude ourselves into finding it in individual fulfillment on a social level, in materialism, in possessions, in appearance. In all these things, however, they are only expedients because the underlying doubt remains: because I don’t know the true meaning. So Long live life says: be grateful that you are alive, don’t take it for granted. This is the basis of everything.”
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