Simone Cristicchi is truly one of those for which the parodic skech was worth saying to Pippo Baudo: “I invented it”. He admits with Candore, today, in thanking him, in the hour of farewell, that a sign of fate wanted to the Biomedical campus of Rome, a hospital famous on TV to be the background to a part of the successful series DOC in your handsto have been the first to be amazed when Pippo Baudo allocated him.
“I had recently made their debut in the world of discography,” he says, “I had released my first album, manufacturer of songs, and I don’t know how he had noticed me in the middle of many, to the point that When he was thinking of the cast of the Sanremo Festival 2007 his call came to me, with the proposal to participate directly in the “big” competition without a record story behind him. I was struck because I would never have expected it, it seemed like a huge thing. Among other things At that moment I only had a song written for a documentary on asylums: I will give you a rose, which then incredibly, against every prediction, won that edition. I am convinced that that victory was collective: mine but also his, who had listened to a song on a difficult theme », not nationalpopular, betting against all the clichés on the festival.
“It was an act of courage,” says Cristicchi, “for an artistic director to bet on a song that spoke of mental illness, a taboo, and asylum, of suffering. Instead we won that bet: because the message came to the hearts of people. “.
A thing from Pippo Baudo, moreover, a man who, despite being from the house on the early evening of Saturday evening in the homes of Italy, and having been a state for decades, did not try to please at all costs, he did not fear how he thought it against the case if of the case, or in an uncomfortable way as when at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo he participated in a relay in memory of Libero Grassi, killed on August 29, 1991, for having denounced the lace, organized. Rai And Mediaset, and asked special laws to fight the mafia phenomenon », words that cost him in November of the same year an attack that made him skip the villa of Acireale in the air.
“I can confirm this character of his, even sometimes very decisive, even severe: I can testify that he also chosed me during my career, because proud of that victory, which he also felt herself in an edition a little out of the box, because that year the young Fabrizio Moro also won, with the song dedicated to the victims of the mafia, he kept on it that I carried on a path consistent with that debut. Later, given that I always confided to him, making him listen to the new songs, asking him for advice, it happened that he chosed me, making me understand that at certain times he would have done differently in my place: they were not just compliments, congratulations or pride and pride, he was really attentive to the continuation of my path “.
It is what at school, in art, in life they make true masters, knowing that from errors we grow and learn, as long as you recognize it: “I am reminded of an expression that I really like and that always cites Don Luigi Verdi, (founder of the Fraternity of Romanian, editor’s note) who is my great friend: the teacher must not teach you to want, but he must comb the wings, I find it a beautiful image that is a beautiful image that is a beautiful image that is a beautiful image that To what Pippo did with me ».
