Fpeculiar hygura of the songwriter, Lucio Corsi comes from Tuscany. TO Sanremo 2025 debuts with I wanted to be a tougha tender ballad and 70s influences (among the idols of courses there are David Bowie and Marc Bolan). It is a Ironic self -portrait mixed disillusioned and frieze in line with the poetic and overflowing texts of imagination of his career. This style, and also the fact that he will perform in the evening of the duets in a duet with Topo Gigio, do Lucio one of the announced protagonists of this festival.
Lucio Corsi, the biography and the relationship with the painter mother
Born in Grosseto in 1993, Corsi grew up in Vetulonia (in the Maremma), where the family manages a restaurant in the nearby Borgo di Macchiascandona. Painter mother, father of the leather, little Lucio is passionate about music watching the film The blues brothers and composing the first songs from a very young age. Influenced by prog groups like Genesis, Lucio writes instrumental songs of progressive rock, for Then discover the Italian songwriter And in particular Flavio Giurato and Ivan Graziani. The first performances take place in the premises and squares in Grosseto.
On the Nicoletta mother to whom she is very close (she is the author of all the covers of the child’s records)Lucio told in an interview with The sun 24 hours that: «It has been painting for hobby since she was a girl, and I decided that each of my records must have one of his paintings on the cover, I think they are perfect for my music. When I see the covers all together, it is as if they were composing a story ».
The songs and the first album Musical bestiary
In 2012, after various experiences as guitarist with groups in the area, he moved to Milan And there he decides to embark on his solo career by proposing songs in Italian. In 2015 The EP arrive Vetulonia Dakar And Bay swingwhile in 2017 it comes out Musical bestiarythe first album, a concept album on the animals of his Maremma. Also in the same year, Corsi opens the concerts of the Baustelle and Brunori Sas theatrical tour, and plays around Italy by participating in various festivals.
In 2020 he released his second album for Sugar Music: What will we do when you grow up?produced by Lucio together with Francesco Bianconi and Antonio Cupertino. Driven by the individual White arrowthe disc is very successful among critics. He is invited to perform at the Tenco prize.
Composed of nine tracks that combine acoustic and electrical rock with more delicate sounds, What will we do when you grow up? tells Favolistic and surreal stories. Musically it is strongly influenced by Paolo Conte and Ivan Graziani, with references to British glam rock (genre to which courses is also inspired for extravagant and colorful looks).
Lucio Corsi in concert. (Getty Images)
The album The people who dream and Lucio Corsi’s participation in the third season of Life by Carlo
The most recent album, the last, And The people who dream. Released in 2023, it is a written album between the Meremma and Milan – City to which Lucio remembers how fundamental it is to dream. Musically it is the perfect fusion between Cantiutorate and Glam Rockespecially in songs like Radio Mayday and the title track.
The success of the album attracts the attention of Carlo Verdone, who calls the singer -songwriter to act in Life of Carlo 3. In the cameo Lucio presents You are the morninga song that is the sweet and dreamy memory of the first love. In the video clip of the song, directed by Tommaso Ottomano and set in an elevator, Verdone and other patrons are the victims of explosion of devastating sneezing stations unleashed by the Courses.
In Sanremo 2025 with the song I wanted to be a tough and the duet with mouse gigio
Written together with the faithful co-author (and director of his video clips) Tommaso Ottomano, I wanted to be a tough It is a ballad rock wedge of strings and with a very poetic text that tells the refusal of a world that often wants us infallible.
As he told a Esquire The song «contains a message of acceptance: often what was dreamed of is not better than what we have becomewe must make peace with this and with ourselves. It also speaks of the fact that often it is not possible to become what was dreamed of. The world would like it inscalling, perfect, solid like rocks and beautiful like flowers. But the flowers are hung on a stem, a very thin and fragile thing, therefore actually We are all in precarious balance on the things of life».
For the evening of the covers, Lucio chose to duet with the legendary mouse Gigio on In the blue painted blue by Domenico Modugno. A very original choice that Lucio, in a press note, explained as follows: “Topo Gigio taught me how not to become a puppethe taught me how to cut the threads of those who would like to make you move at will. In the blue painted blue It is the song of the songs since the element of music is the air. Everyone sang it, from Paul McCartney to Bowie up to Massimo Troisi in We just have to cry».
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