Tre years – in which everything happened: one broke out pandemicbecame mom – and today Levante, real name Claudia Lagona35 years old, returns to the Sanremo Festival, where he had participated in 2020 with the song Tikibombom. And this time she does it with I livea song with a very strong emotional impact, because it tells of the difficult period experienced after the birth of her daughter Alma Futura.
On the evening of the covers, however, he will duet with the Apulian singer-songwriter Renzo Rubino – who was competing at the Festival in 2018 – with the song Live Of Vasco Rossi.
I livethe song that Levante brings to Sanremo
“I wrote this song to three weeks after deliveryI was in the total darkness», said theSicilian artist in an interview with The Espresso. The small one, Alma Futurawas born a year ago from love with her partner Peter Palumbo.
“Today the issue remains very delicate, it is talked about too superficially,” he explained. “It’s still taboo, as if the guilt prevailed over the pain. You can’t be sad because you have lived a joyyou had the lucky to give life. And instead the period following childbirth is very complicated for us women, you have to deal with a body that is no longer yours. It has become a home.”
Below, with the daughter
Immediately after the baby was bornI needed to get back to writing, playing. I needed to feel useful for myself, because I love working».
At that moment he felt “stuck in a special rolethat of motherbut it wasn’t enough for me. Emotions swung: I was happy, but also sad. And don’t be afraid to admit that it’s not just a time of joy. It happens to many women.”
Levante said he swung between opposing states of mind, wishing «find a balance despite the depression. Central to the song is the ambition of take control of your liferegain possession of mind and body, have the sensation of being able to still love them, feel alive».
Levante’s family
Levante said he had a childhood «beautiful and crowded. Dad was a railway worker, he took us to the sea on the white Tipo. I remember the atrocious heat and us 4 brothers behind, I was the youngest, stuck. He loved music so much we sang like crazy, on the way to the sea. Laughing.”
Below, as a child
But the memories stop there, because afterwards there are «enormous holes. Between 15 and 22 almost nothing. I take up the diaries I wrote, to remember. I should start writing them again, but in this one music helps me. I know when and why I wrote every single song.”
One fixed point, however, has always been there: women, «very important: they have been my extended family, ramshackle, displaced, broken and re-glued. I have only one brother, the rest are sisters, cousins, aunts, grandmothers. And my amazing mom.”
Below, with his family women
Levante is very attached to her, «ours is a sincere and not very morbid relationship. I don’t call in often, but we have our way to constantly stay in touch. With a little heart on WhatsApp or the reactions on social networks”. She says she has never been dependent on the family nucleus, «but when one of us needs, there is no better team than ours».
When, unfortunately, his father passed away, Levante was only a child, but his mother «it was gigantic: he was 38 years old, 4 children, the world had collapsed around her. We each tried to do the best he could».
The artist’s career
The passion for performing – not yet for music specifically – begins very soon. «I will not have been more than 6 years old when they realized that I had a future on stage. I was at school plays embarrassingso I there was no shame in showing off», he said jokingly.
Below, at 6 years old
After his dad died when he was 9 years old, «that cheeky little girl abandoned me a little. I became so melancholic and from there I started to write and invent melodies».
Then around the age of 12 he started to play the guitar And “I never stopped. Making music saved me. I didn’t drive away sadness, but in music sadness was no longer my enemy.”
His real career in the music field begins in 2013, when he opens the concerts of Max Gazze and then gods Negramaroand reaches its climax with the participation in the San Remo Festivalin 2020, where did it arrive twelfth.
In Sanremo, in 2020. (GettyImages)
With his first album, Instruction Manualis nominated for the Tenco Awardreaching the final, and is also nominated for the MTV Europe Music Awards which were held in Glasgow.
From there other albums follow, Take care of yourself, In the chaos of amazing roomsand especially, Magmamemorywhose name is «a neologism that talks about nostalgia. I thought about how much, since forever, memory and remembrance burn within me, how good and bad they do me at the same time. If pain will accompany me forever, it must also have a name with which to call him”.
In 2017 she was taken as judge a X Factor where it remains for one edition. In this career between stages and TV, he also finds the time to write two books, If I don’t see you, you don’t exist And This is the last time I forget you.
Love for Levante
Love has always had an important weight in life Levant: after a marriage, which lasted two years, with the ex husband Bob Cornelius Rifo (stage name of Simon Cogo), the multi-instrumentalist of the The Bloody Beetrootswas in a relationship with Diodatesinger like her.
Diodato, formerly from Levante, at the 71st Sanremo Festival, in 2021. (Getty Images)
Now, for a few years now, the artist has been happy next to Peter Palumboher boyfriend, who made her the mother of her little girl. Mother, happy in love and next to perform in Sanremo, Levante is experiencing a golden period. And today his cry, “I live», can only be truer and stronger than ever.
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