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Enrico Nigiotti returns to Sanremo 2026 with the courage to also sing about fragility.
Competing among the Big Cons Whenever I don't know how to flyEnrico Nigiotti is certainly not a neophyte in the competition, this being his third Festival. In 2015 he participated among the New Proposals with Something to decide, then he will return among the Big ones in 2019 with Nonno Hollywood and in 2020 with Baciami Ora.
However, for Nigio, as many nickname him, this Sanremo has a different flavour, that of the awareness of having something to tell and which will culminate with the album released on March 13th entitled Maledetti Innamorati.
I consider myself a neighborhood shop that builds its career and value over time.”
On the covers evening, however, Enrico Nigiotti will share the stage with Alfa for a reinterpretation of the famous song by Samuele Bersani En and Xanax.
A choice that is certainly not trivial if you think of Bersani's vast repertoire of masterpieces, when everyone would have expected the intercom Universal Judgments. A meeting of three generations where Enrico will be able to act as a bridge.
We met him on the eve of his Sanremo adventure, to talk about his Sanremo adventure, the upcoming album, the theater tour that will end on Thursday and what will happen next.
THE INTERVIEW
How did the choice to duet with Alfa on the notes of En and Xanax?
The choice of En and
The choice instead fell on En and Xanax also due to the highly topical topics it addresses: anxiety, mental illnesses. The idea of doing it with Alfa, who is an artist I respect, is also dictated by the fact that I am from a generation that acts as a bridge between a generation that comes before me – that of Bersani – and the generation that comes after me – that of Alfa – with the hope of reaching a younger audience that perhaps does not know En and Xanax
How do you approach this Festival?
I don't think about the competition or the prizes, I'm not tied to these mechanisms. I go to Sanremo because it is an important showcase, bringing a song that is important to me. I bring not only the song, but also a record that will be released on March 13th. It's the beginning of my new journey.
How much difference is there with the first Festival?
I find the difference from the first onwards. When I did my first Sanremo I was very immature. I didn't have much live experience, even in terms of writing I wasn't ready yet. It was that hope of being able to walk on music, which happened only two years later withLove is. I believe that Sanremo is always a different and new emotion, you can do it even twenty times but each time has its own story. In this case I have a serenity because every time I don't know how to fly it's like Linus' blanket for me, I'm happy to carry it and sing it.
The song you chose for this Festival also talks about being fragile, about falls and recoveries.
We are in a moment in which people often try not to show fragility, but only success. I believe a lot in fragility, I feel strong precisely because I am fragile. Saying I can't fly is the antithesis of what we see. I really believe in falls, it's right to even hit rock bottom and to get back up you don't have to be alone, you need someone who loves you. Those faces are those eyes that you think about and that give you the strength to go back.
Is there anything you don't accept about yourself?.
I am extremely instinctive and impetuous. Impetuosity can be something you regret, I'm improving but not in writing because that urgency allows me to write
Maledetti Innamorati comes out on March 13th, after two years of writing, what does it contain?
It's a record I wrote while travelling, in these two years I've been to Milan more than to Livorno. Musically I wrote it in Milan, while the lyrics were when I said goodbye to my children or when I returned home. There is a mix of these moods: of nostalgia, of lack, but also of adrenaline. There is this underlying truth, it talks about love, about a life of dreams. It's an album that arrives after two years as will the next one. Being a singer-songwriter the way I live it, you have to eat a lot of life and when you're full you have to put it back on the page. I started living this album in 2020.
Why Cursed Lovers?
Because I feel like a damned lover of life, of crumpled dreams.
Olly is the only duet on the album and Alfa will duet with you. What did you learn from these artists?
We always talk badly about this new generation, in reality I found much more maturity in them than I had at their age. The fact that these two artists chose to collaborate with me, both coming off a successful year, is something that should be a lesson to greater artists.
After Sanremo?
It will be a year of many concerts. This week I announce a very important date for me. I believe that my music should be experienced at live shows, because that is where I belong.
What did the theater tour that will end in Lodi on February 5th leave you with?
The relationship with the public. I didn't expect so many people. I have thanked the audience more than once at the theater. It gave me so much strength. I don't go alone on the Ariston stage, my audience will also be there with me.
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