Written together with his partner Amara, the song speaks of the fragility of the disease, the cycle of life and family love
For the fifth time, Simone Cristicchi He is ready to tread the Ariston stage among the big names of Sanremo Festival 2025. The Roman artist, who won in 2007 with I will give you a rosehe then returned three years later with That’s better and, in 2013, with The first time (I died) And I miss you. The last was in 2019 with Take care of mewith which he earned the Sergio Endrigo prize for the best interpretation and Giancarlo Bigazzi for the best musical composition. After disappearing for a while from social media, Cristicchi returns with When you are smalla song with an intimate and personal imprint that also signs of the partner Bitter. A song that talks about the fragility behind the experience of the illness.
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The meaning of Simone Cristicchi’s song “When you are little”
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In When you are smallSimone Cristicchi tells the delicate and painful transformation which happens when a parent gradually returns child. The arrangement is essential, based on piano and orchestra, without electronic sounds, to create a vaguely alienating and muffled effect. It is the musical portrait of the “Fragility and tenderness of this condition“, And the effects it has on family dynamics and the flow of time. The song photographs moments of intimacy, as in the incipit:”When you are little, I will help you understand who you are / I will be close to you as I never did “until the moment in which “We will play to remember how many children you have / who were born on March 20, ’46 “. A Letter in musicconceived as a sort of dialogue between mother and sonin which memories mix with the indispensable – and impossible – desire to protection.
And so, suddenly, the roles are reversed: “I will teach you to stand alone, to find the way home “ And “tI will repeat your name a thousand times up when you remember “. Then the promise of theeternal love: “When you are little, I will squeeze you so strong that you will not even be afraid of death.“
Simone Cristicchi and the disease of the mother
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“Seven years ago my mom had a serious health problem“, explained Cristicchi a Tv smiles and songs. “It is a letter that I write to her by telling her what is happening to her. When our parents age they return a little childrenwith all the tenderness and also the impotence that we feel in seeing them change. The theme is universal and I hear one great responsibility. For me, the artist not only must entertain the public, but he must also be a bearer of reflections, the narrator of a company. It is a song that recalls atmospheres of the past. […] Maybe this is this his strength: it is in time and at the same time out of time “.
TO PrintingSimone Cristicchi added: “It is not just a song but of An authentic life storyan experience that I lived firsthand. The woman who becomes a child in the song is my mother, Lucianawhich in 2012 was affected by a devastating cerebral hemorrhage, leaving it irreversible damage “.
In Sanremo with his amara companion
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For the evening of the covers, Simone Cristicchi has chosen to be accompanied by Amara, partner in life and career, with a song that is a tribute to Franco Battiato in the reinterpretation of Cure. “The theme of fragility is universal, but it is rarely addressed directly,” explained Cristicchi. “And the piece written together with my partner, bitterhad remained pending for five years. We made it during the Lockdown trying not to fall into rhetoric: but we felt he owned one emotional strength that we had to share at the right time “.
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