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There is a before and an after in the life of Michele Bravi. A past and a present. Or, to put it exactly, a “before” and a “then”.
The “before”: a boy who in 2017 was only 23 years old and enchanted everyone Sanremo with one of the most intense and moving songs in the competition, “The diary of errors”. Yet, in that first there was also a disoriented person who, in his own words, confused that stage with life. A talent overwhelmed by something enormous – a fourth place – which in an instant had thrown success and the responsibility of maintaining it onto him.
And then… comes the “then”: since then Michele Bravi he has gone through the years learning to give shape and expression to his creativity: he conceived and took part in numerous artistic projects, he participated in one of the most complex editions of Sanremo ever – that of Covid – until he reached the awareness of maturity.
The one that makes him live this phase
With more cynicism and detachment than in 2017, after having re-established the value order of things”, he states. “But not without taking away from this commitment the weight it deserves. Because I've accepted that I'm pretty damn awkward in this life. Sanremo taught me how important it is for me to do this job, but also to bring everything back to the right dimension.”
Today is therefore the perfect time to bring a song called “Sooner or later“. A song that has a completely new genesis compared to the standard creation process. First of all, it is not a piece designed for Sanremobut
It comes from a waste. It is the spearhead of a project that will come to life after the Festival and which will have a theatrical slant, because I have always loved song-theater and musicals as forms of expression. The album that will follow was born with a theatrical, cinematic soul, close to melody.”
Secondly, the Michele Bravi of “then” he understood the richness of sharing. This time he didn't write alone, how he himself admits that he did it often, but it involved Swallow, pseudonym of the singer-songwriter born in 2005 Tommaso Santoni. It is in the four-handed work that a verse, lost among Michele's notes, found its definitive form, transforming into the right song for the Festival. To complete the picture, the brushstroke of Alterisio Paolettiresponsible for arranging the album and directing the orchestra on stage.
In the Sanremo “family run” by Michele Bravi there is also the lively and original presence of Ilenia Pastorelli, multifaceted artist who wrote and directed the short film that will accompany the single. And there will be two other women of great artistic depth at her side, Fiorella Mannoiapartner in the cover evening to pay homage Ornella Vanoni with the song “Tomorrow is another day”.
In “Sooner or later” we will listen to the sense of inadequacy of those who suddenly find themselves without certainties after a love affair that has ended. That sense of bewilderment that makes you feel undressed, embarrassed, “awkward” in fact, lacking the agility to move without bumping into the corners of life.
I tell the story of the suffering of the breakup, but in its cinematic image. You know when you break up with someone and that very day it's clear instead of rain? It doesn't fit so well with the idea of pain one feels, does it? I, for example, suffer a lot, yes, but I don't suffer “well”. I've always been dropped off on sunny days.”
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