TOmmaso Paradiso42 years old, has finally decided to go to Sanremo. He had (pre)said it a few days before the fateful announcement of the names by Carlo Conti: «They give me eligible every year. Sooner or later, statistically, why shouldn’t they get it right?”. The artist, who has been pursuing a solo career for several years after leaving the band Thejournalistsof which he was a member for ten years, he will go on stage for the first time at the 2026 Sanremo Festival among the Bigs bringing the song The Romantics.
To be honest, he had already taken to that same stage in 2018, not as a competing artist but as a guest, to duet together with Gianni Morandi on the notes of A life that I dream of you.
Tommaso Paradiso in Sanremo 2026 with The romantics
«I will be in Sanremo with this song – which is a dedication to someone – because I think the right time has come for me to be there», he declared, also thanks to a «very long journey, with ups and downs», which finally made him «ready for this step». This adventure «It’s a debut. I still don’t know how I experience it. I don’t want to think about it until I’m on stage, the five minutes before the broadcast.”
Today, father of a little girl named Anna and with 12 Platinum records under his belt, he feels he can experience this event without anxiety but as «a watershed, as if I were putting a great first milestone». The thing he doesn’t like, he added, «is seeing Sanremo as one challengea competition. The score for me is a sporting thing. It makes me very sad to see this experience as a mere singing competition.”
Thomas Paradise. (Mattia Guolo)
The song by Tommaso Paradiso
The song with which he will seek victory tells of people who put their hearts before everything, always and in any case. And among them there is Tommaso Paradiso himself, “an eternal romantic” in the words of his girlfriend Carolina Sansoni, mother of their daughter. In a world where there is almost fear of leafing through a newspaper, the artist brings a counter-current proposal, namely «go back to being a little more romantic», bringing purity, vulnerability and naivety back among the values to be rediscovered.
His manifesto is expressed through a ballad that winks at the 80sfrom the refrain that gets into your head and in the form of a letter to your daughter that becomes «a promise of eternal love» so beautiful and incredible «that it would be wonderful not to ruin everything». This “And one of the most sincere songs I’ve ever written», also because he «threw it down in one go, so it talks about true things».
A rich and varied career
Tommaso Paradiso arrives in Sanremo on the strength of an already rich and varied career. He published with TheGiornalisti four albumsgiving us hits like Completely, This stupid love song of ours, Riccione And Happiness Whore.
Even as a soloist he has already released four albums, including the latest, Paradise Housereleased November 28, 2025. Not just performer, but also author and co-author for other artists: he wrote Luca the same for Luca Carboni, The selfie army by Takagi & Ketra feat. Lorenzo Fragola and Arisa, You made me late by Nina Zilli, Leave now by Giusy Ferreri e Fall of Naomi. Among the most famous featuring we cannot fail to mention the very rhythmic one Pamplona by Fabri Fibra, in which he participated again with Thegiornalisti in 2017.
The artist at the Red Valley Festival in August 2024. (Getty Images)
After some very successful singles – some of which have become real hits – alternating with some moments of narrative tiredness, the Roman singer-songwriter is now trying the Ariston route to bring back his music and his visionabandoning indie and returning to pop, more commercial and suitable for the traditional Sanremo audience.
The experience at the Ariston is not only a musical challenge – use the term, which he doesn’t like – but also another symbolic step in the construction of his artistic identitya way to engage with a wider audience and with the history of Italian music itself.
The evening of duets
On the duet evening, he will perform with The last Moona song by Lucio Dalla from 1979, sharing it with the Stadiuma band led by Gaetano Curreri who conquered that stage – deservedly – ten years ago with the poignant One day you will tell me. The performance promises to be one of the most anticipated moments of the Festivalcapable of weaving together nostalgia, genuine emotions and the magic of a bond between different generations of Italian artists.
And who knows, even the “last of the romantics” might be infected by it fortune sanremo of his future stage companions.
