LEVANTE in Sanremo with “Sei tu”: a return on tiptoe between fragility, love and new sound trajectories

It's you, the song with which Levante will present himself at the next edition of the Sanremo Festival is part of the process leading up to the release of the new album “Dell'amore, il amministrazione e altri passi di dance”, which does not yet have a timetable.

After the singles “Never”, “Nothing to say”, “Of love and failure” and “Sono blu”, “Sei tu” also explores the concept of the album.

With this album – explains the singer-songwriter of Sicilian origins – I want to investigate love and above all its end. My personal experiences – he confesses – always stop at the same point, always end at the same curve. I asked myself some questions and I hope I have answered them. With the first single I asked myself the problem; with the last song on the album I hope I have given myself the solution. Failure in love – he states – is analyzed with stories seen from many points of view, even funny: some are things that happened, others not. It is a record born from a personal investigation. He doesn't look at society and doesn't ask himself if it knows how to love; even if today society is individualistic, closed in on itself, and lacks love due to an excess of ego.”

Speaking of “Sei tu”, Claudia Lagona (this is her real name) reveals some details relating to her third participation in the Festival:

It will be a tiptoeing, delicate piece, different from what has been shown in previous times. Up until now I have always chosen a certain muscularity, energy and movement, as well as a more scenic singing style; this time I show my thinnest and most delicate part, which exists but has never been brought to the Sanremo stage. It will be a bare and intense piece that I will perform without “special effects”.

According to its author, “Sei tu” tells the sensations and physical upheavals of a body in love, a body outside itself that is unable to verbalize love. «At first listening – explains Levante – it can have different interpretations: it could also talk about a love between parent and child or between two kids».

The solutions proposed by the analysis of love through the songs on the album are absolutely personal, because they are the result of our experiences. Personally – says Claudia – I dug very deeply to find answers to my behaviors and I got various answers, but a lot of it is linked to fear. This is why I sometimes decide to kill love: if I kill it, it cannot die. It's easier for me to finish stories this way. Every time I was pleased… even if – she says laughing – I was terribly left”.

From a musical point of view, Levante announces “Of love, failure and other dance steps” as «an extremely heterogeneous album, full of 90s electric guitars and synthesizers, also with straight club bass and 70s and 80s atmospheres never explored before. I'm not afraid to show the different tastes that live within me. I don't know if anything has changed in my writing: me, I've changed a bit. I always seem to be instinctive, but perhaps now I am clearer and more immediate than in the past.” Finally he adds that there will be no guests:

In six records I only had three featuring; I don't feel the need and I'm not good at choosing them.”

Even the choice to anticipate the work with many singles is not accidental nor the result of the now consolidated recording habit:

So – he explains – I can give the right space to the songs, while nowadays a record burns in an instant”.

Returning to his next participation in the Sanremo Festival, Levante confesses that he “hates” the evening of covers:

When they tell you that you will take part in the festival you are excited, enthusiastic, but a moment later the enthusiasm cools – he says laughing – because you think with terror about the evening of the covers, about what to do». Obviously she doesn't reveal the name of the guest who will accompany her on stage, but in a hypothetical maximum freedom of choice she would like to be accompanied by Paul McCartney; more concretely she states that she would have liked to have Carmen Consoli with her too.

For me she is an older sister, I asked her for advice, but she won't be able to be there because she is on tour in Spain.”

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From April 29th on tour with “Dell'amore – Club Tour 2026”

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Levante will soon also be on TV as an actress in the new miniseries, broadcast on Rai 1 on 3 and 4 February, “The Invisible – The capture of Matteo Messina Denaro” with Lino Guanciale, directed by Michele Soavi and dedicated to this sensational event.

His foray into cinema before this episode had only been with a small part in “Romantiche” (2023), directed and starring Pilar Fogliati, for which he also wrote the soundtrack, and with the composition of the song “Follemente” for the film of the same name (2025) by Paolo Genovese, nominated for the Nastro d'Argento.

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