X Factor 2021, the winner is Baltimore- Corriere.it

The Ancona singer of Hell Raton won after the final duel with gIANMARIA at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago

something absurd: I’ve always made music for myself, something I’ve always liked to do. I had a great time. Cos Edoardo Spinsante aka Baltimore commented on his victory ad X Factor 2021. The competitor, from the Hell Raton roster (which repeats the success of 2020, when Casadilego won for his team), played the final trophy with the 19-year-old gIANMARIA from Vicenza (born Gianmaria Volpato) of Emma’s team, who finished second in front of the Bengala Fire led by Manuel Agnelli and Federico Castello aka Fellow of Mika’s team. Twenty years old, originally from Ancona, Baltimore plays the piano, guitar and joined X Factor as a singer after having dedicated himself to production for other artists. The last appointment of the Sky talent show (aired last night on Sky Uno and unencrypted on Tv8) opened in the sign of rock with the Mneskin and their world hit Beggin ‘. When in 2017, as simple X Factor finalists, they took the stage of the Mediolanum Forum in Assago no one could imagine that, only four years later, they would return to the temple of Milanese music as absolute triumphs.

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Almost to close the circle at the end of a year full of great international successes, from the triumph at the 71st Sanremo Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam until the opening of the Rolling Stones concert in Las Vegas last November. Definitely a dream path for the four competitors who faced each other to conquer the victory during a final dedicated to great music, which also saw Coldplay among the protagonists, already super-guests in 2015, returning from the release of their ninth album. in the studio Music of Spheres topped the charts around the world. We are happy to be here, to have had the opportunity to sing with you, said Chris Martin at the end of the performance. The edition of X Factor that has just ended, the 15th, was marked by renewal. Starting with the new conductor Ludovico Tersigni, called to take up the legacy of Alessandro Cattelan (who remained at the helm of the program for ten years until last year). Actor and face of the popular teen series Skam Italia, Tersigni faced his first television experience with his feet firmly planted on the ground: I try, he had said on the eve of the start of the program, proudly claiming that Roman spirit that sporadically peeped out, reviving an enthusiastic but dry conduct, without too many flickers, perhaps to avoid the risk of overdoing it. The news also concerned the general format of the talent: the categories into which the competitors were divided have been eliminated in the name of fluidity: no more labels, because music cannot be pigeonholed. A sign of contemporaneity.

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