Qare the most beautiful Sanremo songs ever? Edition number 75 of the most loved and hated Italian music festival will air from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 February. Net of scandals, votes, singers, guests and international stars, in the center of the event there are always songs (and their texts). In over seventy years many songs are obvious Presented, but relatively few those who have become generational cults are relatively. In short, to remain in the history of light music. Here is 15 unforgettable.
Sanremo History: the most beautiful songs ever
For ElisaAlice. 1981
The gritty voice of Alice, an author like Franco Battiato It is a punk melody that resumes fragments of Beethoven’s homonymous composition. For Elisa He could only win the 1981 Sanremo Festival. The text, deliberately ambiguous, It was interpreted as the story of a heroin addiction. Over the years, the singer has repeatedly denied this version, clarifying that the protagonist It is not the drug but a woman. A timeless song, also seen on the stage of X Factor 2024sung by frankly.
At least you in the universeMia Martini. 1989
A few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Sanremo Festival is presented by a young manenthusiastic but not very expert quartet of children of art. Rosita Celentano, Paola Dominguín, Danny Quinn and Gianmarco Tognazzi do their best but Their conduction is remembered as the worst of all editions.
To ennoble the evenings he thinks about it At least you, in the universe. One of the most beautiful song in the festival and of all time, poignant both for the text, and for the guilty and long ostracism reserved for its great and sensitive interpreter, Mia Martini. If the couple Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali win with I’ll leave you, To become a cult song is What will remain of the 80s of RAF. A hymn to the most hedonist decade of the twentieth century.
Light (Sunsets in the north east), Elisa. 2001
It is not only The winning song of the 2001 edition but that is that to have received the greatest prizes of criticism. A good result for an artist who initially chose to sing exclusively in English. The song is a first -person story of the end of a lovebetween pain and rebirth. To help her to put his pain black and white There is Fornaciari sugar. It is his poetics we are of the same tear. Beautiful.
Elisa in 2001 winner with “Luce (north east sunsets)”. (Getty)
The music is over, Ornella Vanoni. 1967
The Sanremo of that year remained sadly in the annals for the dramatic suicide of Luigi Tenco. The singer -songwriter performs A desperate gesture as a sign of protest towards the jury. His Hello love hello, Sing in pairs with the French Dalida, it only arrives in fifteenth position.
The race inevitably ends up in the background as well as the winners Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa with the forgettable Don’t think about me. Nevertheless, Among the songs there is an authentic jewel. The masterful interpretation of Ornella Vanoni, paired with Giovanni Guarnera, he gives to The music is over Fourth place. Among its authors there is the CaliphFranco Califano.
The most beautiful songs of Sanremo, The thousand blue bubbles. 1961
While Adriano Celentano and Little Tony are unleashed with 24 thousand kisses, A classic of Italian song arrives on the Sanremo 1961 stage with a symbol of Italy. Mina, Together with Jenny Luna, Sing the irreverent and joyful The thousand blue bubbles With an amazing polka dot dress.
And it is immediately cult. For the singer, however, the race is a ordeal. Very tense and agitated due to the competitive atmosphere, during the performance with the second song I love, you love, performs a small intonation error. Bursts into crying and leaves the scene, swearing herself never to go back to us again. Promise kept.
All my mistakes, Subsonica. 2000
To win the first festival of the new millennium, conducted by Fabio Fazio, they are The small Avion Travel Orchestra with the elegant Feeling. But It is also the year of the subsonic Turinese with the beautiful electronics of All my mistakes. Although they only place themselves in eleventh place, the great success of the song outside the Sanremo stage overwhelms them happily. And they haven’t stopped yet.
All that a manSergio Cammariere. 2003
2003 is dedicated to songwriting and joy. Alexia leaves the dance music and runs through the festival with Don’t say no. Kyle Minogue is the most awaited foreign guest and, in third place, after i 7000 coffee by Alex Britti, there is the poignant All that a man.
Sergio Cammariere chooses an elegant song, From jazz atmospheres, measured, intense and all to be played on the plane, solo. So beautiful and unforgettable that it is chosen as a cover by Mina For his album I love you like a madman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugpyvqjkac
The sword in the heart, Patty Pravo. 1970
That of 1970 is a pure transition festival. In the race there is the tradition with Orietta Berti, Rita Pavone, Iva Zanicchi. To win is the couple Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori with Those who do not work does not make love. Two worlds at the antipodes in which in the center there is the splendid The sword in the heart, Reported by Patty Pravo and Little Tony. Modernity and class in a single song.
Mr. LieutenantGiorgio Faletti. 1994
Civil commitment, breakage and interpretative intensity. These are the 3 adjectives they describe Giorgio Faletti’s first performance at the 1994 festival. A spoken song, a blow of reality that bursts between all the same and boring sounds and It speaks of mafia massacres. Of the constant danger in which the men of the police live.
The then comic actor, a future very successful thriller writer, He arrives in second place after the skilbo albeit willing Aleandro Baldi. But who remember his winning song?
My houseGhali. 2024
Fourth place at the 2024 festival For My house of the thinking rapper Ghali. A non -trivial text and never Ruffiano who claims the uniqueness of the human being without distinction of race and class. The only reality and truth is that we all belong to one, great planet. My house or your house, what is the difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcihdr2mg0
Halley’s comet, Irene Grandi. 2010
The Tuscan singer -songwriter with a rock soul churns out this gritty ballad which tells a love understood but intended for failure for the circumstances of life. A piece that was born in collaboration with the Baustelle frontman, Francesco Bianconi.
A bittersweet but beautiful autobiographical fragment which describes The stormy relationship with the ex -husband. Among the new proposals, leaves its mark The man who loved women by Nina Zilli. A reference not veiled to the François Truffaut film of the same name. Once again, a portrait of a fascinating as well as berry.
And tell me you don’t want to die, Patty Pravo. 1997
Still her, still Nicoletta Strambelli with a very dramatic song Who sings with great elegance on the stage of the Sanremo event in 1997. A suffering woman after yet another disappointment of love, who tries to get courage in order not to let himself go. The authors are Vasco Rossi and Gaetano Curreri. Yet they won the jalisse with Rivers of words. Incredible.
Patty Pravo: His “And tell me you don’t want to die” is among the most beautiful songs in Sanremo.
Western’s Karma, Francesco Gabbani. 2017
The winning song is a Fresco of the European Middle Man which approaches oriental culture with the same surface approach with which you go shopping. The choreographic ballet with a fake monkey is the cherry Kitsch on the cake. The quote is that taken from the book The naked monkey ofEthologist Desmond Morris, That congratulated the author for the quality of the text.
The most beautiful songs of Sanremo: I will go up, Daniele Silvestri. 2002
Mia Martini Critical Prize to the Roman singer -songwriter who, with desperate irony, tells acceptance of the end of a lovewhen the time comes to shoot the page. It is also the year of the victory of Anna Tatangelo in Sanremo Giovani with Double fragile.
Daniele Silvestri and his “I will climb” among the most beautiful songs of the Festival
Everyday stories, Riccardo Fogli. 1982
The former Pooh member wins with a Sanremo classic. Everyday stories becomes the best -selling single of that year. A world in a song that speaks of any people, grappling with daily labors and moments of melancholy.
The text makes small references to a woman that is gone: Many have seen a veiled reference to Patty Pravo. The Venetian singer, with whom Fogli had a relationship in the seventies, seems to have been the cause of the separation from the Pooh. A sort of Yoko Ono Nostrana.
Mystery, Enrico Ruggeri.1993
11 appearances at the Festival, 2 wins. The first in 1987 with You can give morein tandem with Umberto Tozzi and Gianni Morandi. The second in 1993 with Mystery. An energetic rock song that conquers everyone. This edition remembers For the presence of the two Bertè sisters who sing together We are as we are and for the victory In the young category of Laura Pausini with loneliness.
What women don’t sayFiorella Mannoia. 1987
A big song for a great interpreter who speaks of women and women (and even more to men). Although it is one of the most loved festivals songs, it only arrives in eighth place. But ha He was lucky enough to share the stage with a parterre of international super guests such as Smiths, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston.
The flying man, Marco Masini. 2004
The 2004 edition does not include songs that have passed the test of time. The exception is that of‘Flying man by Marco Masini who, more than a triumph, was a revenge. After the success of 1990 with Desperate, His fame increases together with the ridiculous dictates of Portasfortuna.
This kind of treatment, similar to that reserved for Mia Martini, arrests his career. But the victory with a song dedicated to the son who will come reports it again in vogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvmxmsjgau
Men alonePooh. 1990
In 1990, the historic group arrived on the podium with the melancholy and powerful Men alone. Vittoria deserved despite the fact that there are beautiful songs like in the race The snowfall of ’56 of Mia Martini e Woman with you by Anna Oxa. Among the first places the couple also arrives Love Top Amedeo Minghi and Mietta with I go love.
A small emotionAnna Oxa. 1978
At just 16 years oldwith a song signed by Ivano Fossati, Anna Oxa He presents himself on the Sanremo stage with a punkeering look And as much grit. The melancholy text speaks of a man unable to love. Comes second, later And say hello of the Matia Bazar and before Gianna by Rino Gaetano.
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