He was the most televoted of all time in Sanremo, 60% against Angelina Mango’s 16.1 and he is “only” in second place in the rankings, but you won’t hear him say a controversial word. Emanuele Palumbo23 years old, from Secondigliano, does not give satisfaction to his detractors, to the keyboard lions, to the enemies of the “Neapolitans”.
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You were first in the rankings until the end, then the opinion of the press room and radio led to a reversal. Sorry?
«No, the Festival is a competition and verdicts are accepted. I won the cover night with rap, and this already seems like a good result to me. I’m second with a song in dialect and it had never happened before. I won, in short. And I really liked the journey I took here. I take some good memories of Sanremo back to Naples, I had a mad desire to return, to feel at home.”
«Grass from my house», the last Neapolitan winner of the Festival, Massimo Ranieri, would have said: it was the 1988 of «Losing love» and even then Napoli had the scudetto sewn to their chest. We hoped it was a propitious sign…
«Eh, but Ranieri is a legend. I remain the muccusiello that you know, just a little grown up from this experience.”
In addition to televoting, you are first in the hit parade, in streaming, on TikTok.
«The support of the public is always gratifying, but the Festival is a competition with its own rules, everything else doesn’t count».
In short, nothing to complain about, not even against those who sowed anti-Neapolitan racism on social media?
«But the 1950s are far away, I believe that real discrimination is over. And then, two boys from the South won, two boys from the year 2000, almost the same age: it’s a good youngster, Rocco Hunt would say. Angelina is a year younger than me and she’s fantastic, even my mum is crazy about her.”
In the Gescal district they welcomed you with fireworks, in Scampia today they spread the notes of “I’ p’me, tu p’te” in the subway. Mayor Gaetano Manfredi is waiting for you, perhaps already today, at Palazzo San Giacomo: «Very good! Immense satisfaction for Naples, a great city of music, proud of his talents. Emanuele, I’ll be waiting for you at the Municipality to celebrate! », His message.
«And you mean I didn’t win? From the mayor of the largest metropolis in the South to the kids in my neighborhood: it seems like a celebration for the championship.”
On Friday night, when you won the covers round and sang your hip hop medley with Guè, Luche’ and Gigi D’Alessio, you were, however, obviously disappointed.
«It’s strange: you win and lose at the same time, those boos, with people leaving, expressed a legitimate opinion, but they hurt, they didn’t put us in a position to give a good performance. But this too is behind us and in front of me are the three concerts in June at the Maradona stadium: that too will be a festival, or rather a party. And no one will care if we sing in Neapolitan or how we write it. That of the dialect is the most beautiful crown I can put on my head: I rap in the language of my land, a language that has made the history of the song, or rather: historically it is the language of the song. But in Sanremo they no longer gave her a passport: Amadeus explained that he had changed the rules for me, to have me. I hope that now the doors remain open for all the greats of Neapolitan music.”
Has Sanremo changed you?
«No, I’m still a very normal boy. At 7-8 years old, I was already working on a piecework basis at home, assembling screws and bolts. “Fatigue” taught me what the important things in life are. Here we are equal. And I hope you too.”
2024-02-11 23:10:08
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