THEor he says with the pride of those who have solid roots: «I feel a little more singer -songwriter what a rapper ». And immediately the thought runs to his Genoa, who churned out unforgettable poets in the Italian music scene, primarily Fabrizio De André. And even if he begins a Sanremo 2025 For the first time among the big names, The Ligurian Brash – real name Andrea Brasi, 28 years old – is not a Novellino in our music scene. But since «I come from rap in the end, […]if I get the rapper, I do it. The moment decides. “

Difficult to pigeonhole this artist, who in 2010, at the age of 14 – half of his life today – returning home after a concert by Fabri Fibra He understood that it was worth trying everything for everything to go on stage. «After that evening, I remember having returned home and having started writing. I think it was my initiation: I already wrote from before, but from there I decided to continue».

And it was also decided to change its way, breaking the family tradition: The “males” of his house, including dad, did the Camallifatigue men, people of port, dedicated to downloading the heaviest goods of ships that attracted to the city of Lanternto. His way, however, was different: he was not made for the mainland, but to chase his wandering dreams without having to take root in a single place.

Bresh, an art name that has always existed

its name of art, Breshhas accompanied him from an early age: it is not his choice. And at the beginning “I didn’t even like it,” he explained, “I saw him as too foreign and” little Italian “” “. Then, however, you want the habit, you want that it was now in some way part of him, he accepted it. And today, it is “Bresti” for everyone.

Bresti’s participation in Sanremo 2025

Bresh will perform among the big names of Sanremo Festival 2025 with the song The la thhea of ​​the crabbut this is certainly not his only Sanremo experience. Already in 2024 it had been guest twiceis performing with one of his songs in connection from the Costa Smeralda ship, both in the evening of the covers, when he accompanied Emma Marrone in the medley of the songs by Tiziano Ferro.

In the evening of the covers, he chose to duet with Cristiano De Andrè, heir of the great Faber, Just with a masterpiece of the missing artist, Creuza de ma. And makes you laugh thinking that, after the announcement of his participation in the Sanremo Festivalhis mom, knowing his not exactly excellent school results, made fun of her with a good -natured message, then posted on Instagram by the artist. «I read the century and the votes. I saw yours, accipicchia, frame it, congratulations, “he wrote. “I already tell you, I frame it beyond everything because I think it is the first 8 that you take in the history of your school career.”

Childhood in Liguria

Bresh grew up in Bogliasco, Liguria, “a country of five thousand souls, where people are not bad. My family is a standard family, we are people who He used his hands to build things». His father, of whom we have already told you about, “is from Dinegro, a neighborhood of workers. He made the port for thirty years and taught me the sense of value and money ».

Emma and Bresth on the Ariston stage in Sanremo 2024. (Ansa)

At the beginning, like him, “I wanted to work in port, I think I would have become a good port. I remember my father who returned home in the evening after work, I looked at his big hands, and I said to me “This is a real man, virile …” “. At 11, Bresh begins to make music, but after a while the blow gives up. He then returns to his steps three years later, with more conviction. And from that moment he has never stopped.

Bresh, the beginning

Changesthe first mixtape made together with the “colleague” G Pillola, precedes by one year What do we want to dohis second project brought to light together with friends, emerging artists of the Genoese scene such as Izi, Vaz tea, Tedua, Dala Pai Pai, Nader Shah. With some of them he founds the collective Drilligurewho founded drin – a underground of the trap – with their region of origin, very fertile from a musical point of view.

“What binds us is the city, with its ways of doing,” Bresh explained talking about his friends. «They are ways of doing Ligurian, closed but at the same time a lot of firm, tied. For me Friendship is an important thing, friends don’t change them or abandon them. We feel a lot of friendship».

Once on Radio Bresh he heard an interview with Gino Paoli made by Linus. “Paoli told him about a friend of his Genoa, and Linus interrupted him saying:” cabbage, you Genoese are very close to friends “. And Paoli replied: “I am a little banned. Why, are you not tied to friends? “. Guys, that is,, Friends are important. Without them, I feel lost. Maybe we Genoese have more deep ties than others? ».

The career of Bresh

After studies at the professional institute, He moved to Milan with friends (and colleagues) Rkomi, Tedua and Sonny Willa, publishing some singles (Baghera, Gaston And Prestige, Snake, Astronauts, Andes And Gazza Ladra). In Genoa “we started in a study by combining our strength. There was not much rap and therefore when it started to split the natural destination it was Milan».

To keep in the most dear city in Italy, «At the beginning I made the salesman in a shoe shop. Then in the kitchen and catering in a bar in Porta Genova, then I sold discount coupons on behalf of gyms and swimming pools. I worked on a music festival, the ecstatic market sound, where I prepared sandwiches. And already in Genoa I had worked in several bars, “he said. He had always told his parents that he wanted to “live alone, since I was 14 years old,” he explains. «I’ve always wanted independence. I am an old young man, not a young old man».

Bresh performs in Milan at the Arco della Pace for Party Like in Deejay in June 2023.

The rivalry between Genoa and Milan

But you know: between the two regions, Liguria and Lombardy, there is some friction. But it is honest enough to admit that “if there is a challenge, we have it in the head. In Milan he doesn’t give a damn, they know they don’t be nice to the Genoese, but they have no great prejudices. We have them»He explained.

«If we Ligurians were more welcoming, it would be better. Papal papal, the Milanese only come to bring money, I don’t know why they don’t accept them. But I understand the muggni, in a certain sense. If I had not moved to Milan, this idea would not have passed through my head, because The Ligurian is typically closedwe can’t do anything. “

Fortunately, “with the globalization and the advent of social networks, we too – The young people who moved from Genoa to Milan, or who go to Milan to study – will make this idea diminish. Especially in the case of a third pass: being able to move from Genoa to Milan in 45 minutes would give us satisfaction ».

The two albums by Bresh

In 2020 he took courage and releases his first album, That I AUTthewhich soon becomes certified gold and which contains Anjelina Jolie and Andreathe two best known singles. The album was born from the post Lockdown period, and “I moved on to others because it was an event that made us understand The importance of human relationships and solidarity».

For years, according to the artist, “in which we all started looking at each other with more insistence, even if I am already very introspective. Reports have changed, the ways of relating to you, to get to know us. Inside these things are found ». Among the collaborations of the album also the one with Rkomi, Tedua, Izi and Vaz Thèsì.

Bresh (Andrea Brasi) at Tim Summer Hits on Rai Uno, in Piazza del Popolo. Rome. (Getty Images)

Two years later his second album comes out, Blue gold“Which obviously refers to water, the element that most distinguishes me, also for its changing character. The water takes the shape of the context in which it is, but does not change its substance, at most it mixes with anything else ». Among other things, the sense of continuous change “is a bit one of the vital laws. The fact that nothing is destroyed and everything is transformed is a great truth. The point is a bit going to collect the essentials and then unroll it, to refresh it, with my shape ».

In addition, Bresh also takes part in the docufilm The new Genoese schoolwritten by Claudio Cabona and directed by Yuri Dellacasa and Paolo Fossati together with colleagues and friends of all time, such as Tedua, Izi, Vaz tea, Nader, Guesan and Demo. The film is analyzed the characteristics of the Genoese school of the sixties, seeking analogies and differences between the artists of the time (primarily Fabrizio De André and Gino Paoli) and today’s ones.

Love? It was born on social media

Now that we have framed the context of the artist and we have retraced his career so far, perhaps something is still missing: a chapter onLove. That makes him “a lot of fear. Really. I am afraid of losing years of life, love is something too important, “he said some time ago.

«On the scale of stronger pain that one can tryfor me love is one of the former. I fear pain, not love in itself. I believe that men take more time to bind themselves, perhaps compared to women, but Once tied they need more time to forget. Perhaps the antidote, if there is one, is to live in the present. As always”.

This fear, however, seems to have overcome it now: for some years ago a fixed couple with Elisa Mainofamous influencer (beyond 6 million followers on Tiktok and more than 3 million on Instagram) with which he made official the report in February 2023.

Bresh and his girlfriend Elisa Maino at the Moschino fashion show in June 2024 in Milan. (Getty Images)

Elisa, who wrote the books OPS (2018), Don’t forget me (2019) e With love (2021), He told in a video on Tiktok that the relationship with Bresti started after sharing Angelina Jolieone of the artist’s songs, on his social profiles. He contacted her and that same evening they met for a walk. After an invitation to dinner, in which the rapper showed the most romantic side, Elisa is capitulated. From that moment, the two have a fixed couple.

The future and life so far

But now it’s not time to think too much about love: The Sanremo Festival is upon usready to consecrate the artists who have become “great” among the “big”. And on this point Bresh has his thoughts about it: «Despite my face, I never grow. Only my physique grows. You don’t become big from one day to the next, but when the own independence and courage concretize “. What better demonstration than to climbing alone on the most feared stage in Italy?

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