Bgood feelings and a clean face, Alfa is one of the absolute debutants at Sanremo 2024. Beloved by Generation Z, the Genoese has something in store a new hit dedicated to his peers: Go!. Sunny and hopeful song for those who have no faith in the future. For Alfa, the Ariston stage represents the realization of a dream, afterwards an overwhelming 2023 in which he climbed the charts and he did two sold out tours.
Go!Alfa’s song at Sanremo 2024
Sunny and lively song produced by Ian Scott and Mark Jackson – among the architects of One Republic’s success – Go! it’s a song that the singer wanted dedicate to a generation, his, which struggles to imagine a future full of hope.
«I wrote it a few months ago in California» Alfa told Cosmopolitan «We went to write the songs for the new album, a journey into folk and country music, looking for those who make this music. We were in the car, sun, t-shirt, an incredible mood. We got together with three guitars and the piece was born.”
The piece starts from an autobiographical starting point given that, last year, Alfa (real name Andrea De Filippi) came rejected at the Sanremo Giovani selections. «It was a moment of stop but I didn’t stop. We did more than fifty concerts and four songs »he always told Cosmopolitan.
Alpha’s career
Born and raised in Genoa in 2002 in the Quarto dei Mille district, he began studying guitar and piano from an early age. Then the discovery of rap and, during adolescence, participation in various freestyle competitions organized in his city.
After graduating from high school, in 2018 he participated in the casting of X Factor but it is discarded. Andrea does not lose heart and in 2019 he releases the self-produced single Time to time. Thanks to Spotify and many live dates, in a short time Alfa gained a prominent place in the playlists of very young people and, in 2020, it has an impact his first big hit On the most beautiful.
Song recorded for the film of the same name directed by director Alice Filippi starring Ludovica Francesconi. With which there are rumors of a liason, soon denied by those directly involved. In the same year he released the single Saint Lawrence together with Annalisa and its consecration is now definitive.
The Alpha singer. (Press Office Maryon Pessina)
A symbol for Generation Z
“Healthy” bearer of positive messages, Alfa is one of the symbolic singer-songwriters of the very young. In fact, within his lyrics there are no stories of hardship and suburbia, but songs dedicated to love, uncertainties about the future and becoming adultsthemes dear to children of his age.
In fact, Alfa makes normality its strong point. In a world where you need to be cool to be successful, He presents himself as a simple, normal boy, even a bit “unlucky”. With the same paranoia and anxieties as his peers, an outsider in short who wants to be normal, just like kids his age.
The (ex?) girlfriend Sofia Cerio
After some rumors in 2019 that he was engaged to the Milanese influencer Virginia MontemaggiAlfa denies everyone by posting on his Instagram account some romantic shots in the company of Sofia Marco. Player of volleyball of the Serteco Volley School of Genoa, a team that plays in the Serie B1 championship.
A love that ended shortly after when Sofia Cerio appeared in the singer-songwriter’s life. Tiktoker with which However, he broke up in September 2022 with an Instagram post but dedicating very sweet words to her. «Unfortunately or fortunately our paths have divergedbecause she went to live in another country, but this evening I want to tell you that whatever happens I will be there».
Last summer, however, Sofia appeared in the video clip of the song Very beautiful <3 and many have thought of a flashback. A rumor that the two, to date, do not have confirmed nor denied and in the meantime they continue to passionately follow each other on social media.
The duet in Sanremo with Roberto Vecchioni
Working on his third albumafter the successes of Before Wanderlast And NorthAlpha chose a legend of Italian music for the Cover evening. That is to say Roberto Vecchioniwith whom he will sing Dream boy dream, song from 1999 and which, since its publication, has entered in the historical repertoire of the Milanese singer-songwriter.
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