Guest this evening at the Sanremo Festival, Achille Lauro will bring to the stage Head over heels in a moment dedicated to the victims of the Crans-Montana tragedyafter the song became a symbol of the pain of the families affected.
The artistic director and presenter Carlo Conti announced it, explaining that the choice of the song came about after what happened in Switzerland. At first, in fact, the planned performance with Achille Lauro should have taken another path: titles such as March 16also in light of Laura Pausini’s homage in her new album I sing 2or a Unconscious young people.
Mother Erica’s gesture
To transform Head over heels in fact it was a collective symbol of pain Erica, mother of Achille Barosi, a 16 year old boy who died in the fire. During the funeral celebrated in the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, the woman sang the song on her son’s coffininvolving relatives, friends and classmates in a spontaneous choir that moved the country. That, he recalled, was “our song, which we sang at the top of our lungs as we went to and from your beloved grandparents’ house.”
From that moment an appeal arose on social media for the singer to bring the song to the Ariston stage as a memory of the victims and a sign of closeness to the families affected.
The Crans-Montana tragedy
The tribute arrives almost two months after the fire broke out on New Year’s Eve 2026 in the club The Constellations of Crans-Montana, a Swiss ski resort. The flames, which broke out in the basement during the celebrations, they caused over forty deaths and numerous injuries, many of them very young. The rapidity of the fire’s spread and possible critical issues in safety measures, in particular in the management of emergency exits, are now at the center of a criminal investigation launched by the Swiss authorities.
A memory entrusted to music
Immediately after the tragedy, the same Achille Lauro had expressed his closeness to the families on social media: «It is a suffering that affects everyone and that we also feel is ours, something that goes beyond words and too great to even imagine. I am close to you with all the love possible.”
Not a show, but a moment of shared reflection. This is the meaning of the performance planned at the Ariston: to entrust music with the most delicate task, to preserve the memory of the kids who are no longer here.
