No.despite his young age – 27 years – Michele Bravi he has already trod the stage of the Ariston three times, even as a guest. This year he competes as a singer with the song Flower winter. Below, while he was writing the song that will lead to Sanremo 2022.
«If this song were a sound», explained the artist, «it would be the dense sound of a violin string. A subtle vibrato that accepts uncertainty and asks to learn ».
The text, written by Michele Bravi, Cheope, Alex Raige Vella, sees in the musical composition Federica Abbate, Michele Bravi and Francesco Catitti who also oversaw the production. On the evening of the covers, however, Michele will perform with the song I would … I would not … but if you want written by Mogol and Battisti.
The cover of Mogol and Battisti
“I would … I would not … but if you want it’s a fragile text that tells the broken veins of past loves and the beauty of waking up from torpor and discovering oneself in flight, ”he said. A melody «in crescendo as a perfect metaphor for driving force of a feeling. I hope, with humility and respect, to tell this one great legacy of the song Italian celebrating its importance “.
The happiness of participating again in the Festival is irrepressible: «Sanremo is a moment of great professional satisfaction because my voice on the stage of the Ariston will be able to tell the importance of restart for the whole entertainment world“, has explained
For him «it is an honor and a a source of great pride to be able to use my music to send this very important message ».
Michele Bravi. (Getty Images)
The looks he will bring to the Ariston stage
The artist promises a radical change compared to his first experience on the Ariston stage. “The first time I had a clean look, I wanted to be formal,” he explained. This year, however, «I added a spectacular appearance. For the first time I collaborate with a stylist who has dressed stars like Lady Gaga and Beyoncè“
In fact, Michele Bravi has always followed the world of fashion, so her looks «will be artwork inspired by what I will tell ». Behind the scenes, between a change of clothes and another, he has two rather special dreams for a boy of his age: he hopes to “meet Massimo Ranieri, my myth, and get high in the rankings to go guest on Sunday from Mara Venier! “
A wonderful time for Michele Bravi
Admission to the Festival comes at the end of a 2021 that is nothing short of grandiose. In January 2021 the single was released Keep the kiss (“When I remember my first kiss, I also remember an insistent voice in my mind whispering “Maybe you are doing the wrong thing, maybe it’s not right “. Today I like to think that I can say that in Keep the kiss that kiss I dedicated it to a guy I can allow someone to give the first kiss without hearing that voiceHe said), which precedes the release of The geography of the dark, the singer’s third unreleased album.
The story of «orientation in the dark» contained in the album continues in the summer with Moths, together with the international artist Sophie and The Giants (below, together)
The artist with Sophie and The Giants
Shortly after he participates in the 71st edition of the Sanremo Festival as a guest: in the evening of duets he performs alongside Arisa. Together, the two sing When by Pino Daniele.
And that’s not all: he started with one tours in the summer months and in November and December he was on tour in major Italian theaters, bringing live the songs of his latest album.
Below, on tour with The geography of the dark
His career
Born in 1994 in Città di Castello, Michele Bravi in 2013 won the seventh edition of X Factor. Here, Tiziano Ferro notices him and writes for him, together with Zibba, the song Life and happiness, with which he will win the talent show.
In December of the same year he released the eponymous debut EP, while the following year his first album was released In small steps. In the disc, eleven unpublished works written for him by authors such as Giorgia, Luca Carboni, Tiziano Ferro And Federico Zampaglione.
A “X Factor” (Instagram)
Publish another EP, I hate music, written in English, and his first participation in the Sanremo Festival in the Big category with the song dates back to 2017 The diary of errors, with which it arrives fourth.
He then releases his second album Paper cores and, at the end of the year, takes part in the soundtrack of the Disney film Coco with the song Remember Me (Solo).
The cartoon “Coco”.
In 2018 makes the “double” in Sanremo: back in February as a guest with Annalisa and in March in the program Sanremo Young. Writing is not lacking: in 2018 he also published his first novel for Mondadori In the life of others.
The accident of Michele Bravi
November 24, 2018 was probably the worst day in Michele Bravi’s life. In fact, the artist unintentionally caused a car accident, in which a woman died. While he was maneuvering the car, the artist accidentally got it bumped into a scooter on which there was Rosaria Colia, a 58-year-old Milanese woman who died falling from her scooter.
On the day of the accident, the artist tested negative for drug and alcohol tests, he stopped and immediately assisted the woman by calling the ambulance which urgently transported her to the San Carlo in Milan.
In 2020 Bravi’s road homicide trial ended with a plea deal at 18 months. The singer got the Suspension and the non-mention of the sentence in the criminal record.
“For many months I had to accept someattention not required“, has explained. “Nobody considered the pain of the people involved: now he has found peace in the legal seat. That’s enough“. The thoughts, today, are all about Sanremo.
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