Ghali on the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics: “I know why I couldn't sing the Italian anthem”
Amid great and useless controversy, tomorrow evening Ghali will perform at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina, as will many other artists, Italian and otherwise, singers and otherwise.
Ghali, however, is keen to let us know that they will not make him sing the Italian anthem and that they asked him to recite a poem about peace, which could have contained more than one language, but not Arabic.
These are his words:
“I know why they want someone like me.
I also know why they wouldn't want me.
I know why they invited me.
I also know why I was no longer able to sing the Italian anthem.
I know why they asked me to recite a poem about peace.
I know it could have contained more than one language.
I know that one language, Arabic, was too many at the end.”
Ghali may really have all the reasons in the world, but there are two cases: either you go, do your thing and don't bother, or you decline the invitation.
Then, one cannot help but agree with the fact that it is all a “great theatre”, but he himself has decided to be part of this great theatre.
