Ffavored by bookmakers for the final victory, Serena Brancale he thrilled the Ariston stage with his Here with me. Powerful and perfect ballad for his great vocality the Apulian singer-songwriter wrote for her mother Maria. Italian-Venezuelan musician disappeared suddenly six years ago. A song highly applauded by the certifying public the versatility of the singer of Anema and Core.
Serena Brancale moved Sanremo 2026 with Here with me, song dedicated to mother Maria
For the second consecutive time competing in Sanremo, Serena Brancale brings the match Here with mea poignant song dedicated to his mother Maria De Filippis. Italian-Venezuelan musician and teacher passed away suddenly five years ago.
Powerful song that enhances vocal skills and jazz influences of the singer, in a thrilling emotional crescendo, a press release, the Apulian singer-songwriter described the genesis like this Of Here with me: «I waited six years because I needed time to find the right words. This is the right year to talk about her.”
Serena, like last year, she will take the stage with her older sister Nicole conducting the orchestra. «It’s my good luck charm and with this song above all it couldn’t be missing” said the artist “I couldn’t imagine watching a person not linked to this song during the performance”.
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Serena Brancale. (Photo by Thom Réver)
The letter that Serena Brancale wrote to her mother
Every time I stop to think about what happened, a strange confusion comes over meof those that make your head spin, like when you take a step convinced you’ll find ground under your feet but instead, no, emptiness. Because, you see, I still can’t get a real reason for it, the kind you settle inside and don’t think about it anymore: that this thing happened to us. I’m not saying this to complain, but because the head, sometimes, gets askew and doesn’t want to understand, and the heart, unaware, goes after it.
Over time I have learned to live with it, no, because certain things are never fully acceptednot even wanting to. But you live with it, yes, because life continues to move forward and you, like it or not, have to stay with it. AND I’ll tell you something, which maybe will make you smile, like you did: I still feel you.
The cover of the single “Qui con me” by Serena Brancale.
I feel you in everything I do, even in the little things, the ones that don’t count for anything, and yet do. I feel like you are an accomplice, as if you were giving me a half tip, a knowing look, without the need for words. Sometimes I think this is how you would do it. And then I feel calmer, as if I weren’t really alone.
After more than five years, mother, I have decided to write you this letter. I don’t know if the letters reach where you are, nor if they need stamps or silences; but I entrust it to the air, with a song, with my voice, which the air, after all, knows how to find paths that we don’t see. I just wanted to tell you that I always think of you and to stay calm. That I know, and I know with that certainty that needs no proof, that you still are Here with me.
The Lunezia prize a Here with me for its literary value
Prestigious award focused on musical-literary valorization of Italian song, the Lunezia Commission has already awarded the trophy to Serena Brancale and her Here with me for the interesting content profile, the facets and the harmony of writing.
This is the motivation for the awardcommunicated by the Patron Stefano De Martino: «In the commitment of a single choice we indicate the work of Serena Brancale because mother and daughter have the same cells. Two universes, here and elsewhere, which seek and find each other. A work that enters with pathos and centered words. A text with certain musical-literary potential».
