Nono more reggaeton but dance music. For this year, Fred De Palmafor his participation in the Sanremo Festivalhas chosen a turnaround.
The artist gives He will bring 28 Platinum and six Gold records to the race The sky doesn’t want us, a piece «not designed for dancing on the beach on Sunday afternoon. The melody is a bit experimental for me, let’s say I picked up nuances that I had left aside.” Even if, as you said, «I won’t stop making reggaeton songs and I don’t deny anything: my intention is to keep experimenting».
The sky doesn’t want us by Fred De Palma
Regarding the song from Sanremo, «I speak in the feminine voice, it seems like it tells a love story, but I’m referring to my conscience. I’m talking about regrets and learning to live with them. I wish everyone we could be happy when everything goes wrong».
In the text he uses a strong expression «like “overdose”, it’s a metaphor, but it’s true: you can die of regrets. Here I turn to my conscience, I tell of the moments when I was about to give up. I like to give positive messages, and I would like this to be the case for kids: light the fuse, don’t give up. Find your way».
Federico Palana aka Fred De Palma at the Home Festival in Treviso, in 2016. (Getty Images)
And even if «I don’t have the presumption why everyone should like my music», he would still like «to invite everyone to my concerts: maybe we have fun together».
The meaning of the song is understood in two ways: «Sometimes it seems that happiness doesn’t want to accompany us. But the fact of saying: “we will be fine even in hell” means that you have to learn to feel good even if things go wrong. The sky doesn’t want us it wants to be an awareness to feel good.”
The artist claims that he did not write it as a Sanremo piece, but that «I immediately liked Amadeus, I lived six months of infinite anxiety waiting to find out if I had really been “promoted”. I discovered it on TV when she said my name.”
Meanwhile, waiting to perform, «I’m experiencing the Festival as a competition with myself. I’m not talking about rankings or positions, I want to convey my message to those who listen to me.”
Together with Patty Pravo in 2016
For him, this is his debut at the singing festival, although in 2016 he duetted with Patty Pravo on the cover night. «I love Fred De Palma», Pravo had said of him, «because in my opinion he is a poetapproaches rap with a certain sensitivity».
Fred De Palma and Patty Pravo at the 66th Sanremo Festival, in 2016. (Getty Images)
Fred De Palma and the Eiffel 65
On Friday’s cover night, Fred De Palma will perform with the Eiffel 65. The artist and the group will bring a medley of their hits. “I’m very happy, it’s the first group I’ve been a fan of,” he declared.
«With Eiffel 65 I began to understand the magic of music with their songs, they spoke a language in which I reflected myself. I spent the journey from home to school listening to their songs. Seeing them was a great emotion.” For him «they are myths! I started to understand the magic of music with their songs, I reflected on it even before I started rapping. It’s an honor that they agreed to come with me on the Sanremo stage.”
The Sanremo Festival
The connection with the Festival, however, goes back much further. «I watched the Festival with my family, it was a tradition, I have good memories linked to Sanremo», she explained. “This is the most important stage we have in Italy, so the emotion is there but I will try to hide it.” The thing that matters most to him is «to be understood and that my music can convey a positive message to anyone who will listen to it.”
After the Festival, it will leave in tour, in March, and will also arrive in Spain. “I am preparing a show that can tell my journey and encompass everything: old and new pieces, including freestyle,” he explained. The tour will visit various clubs starting from Senigallia (AN) on March 16th, ending in Milan on the 24th of the same month, before moving on to Spain. Furthermore, “I also have an album in the works. I’m writing”.
Fred de Palma in concert in Naples live in Naples. (Getty Images)
A happy moment
Between Sanremo, an upcoming tour and the prospect of an upcoming album, this is «a beautiful moment in my life. I have understood many things about myself and I feel I am ready”, he explained. «What really helped me was be honest with myself. The only one who scares me is me.”
Even on a sentimental level, Fred is very happy: he is engaged to Jori Delli, former face of SportItalia, model and influencer of Albanian origins. «I always thought that it was more important to conquer a woman than to keep her with him. From the moment I managed to have stability with a woman and conquer it every daymy life has changed,” he explained.
The career of Fred De Palma
After a few years in a group, i Royal Rhymeswith whom he released two albums, Fred De Palma he took the solo path in 2012. And this part of his career was definitely more prolific: published, from 2012 to 2021, ben six albums. A huge success was his collaboration with the singer Ana Mena: the two, in 2019, climbed the charts with the hit Once again (seven platinum discs, below the video).
Again with Ana Mena he released two other singles, including Criminal Melody, in 2023. Now Ariston awaits him. That lucky year for him. And thank goodness The sky doesn’t want us!
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