All colors were seen at the last edition of the Sanremo Festival. And hosted by Gino Pauli is one of the episodes that left their mark. The artist, one of the most representative singers in the history of Italian music, returned to the Ariston stage with some complaints and memory lapses, but his voice still enchanted. However, his return to the Riviera will be remembered for a few interludes that took place before and during his performance on stage.
Gino Paoli was one of the Italian guests on the last night of the festival. The 88-year-old singer-songwriter performed in the middle of the night and got carried away on stage, a spicy anecdote related to Little Tony. To avoid the worst, Gianni Morandi and Amadeus had to intervene to stop him before the story degenerated. “I’m glad to be here, even if it’s a cage crazy‘ said Paoli before singing ‘Il cielo in una stanza’.
However, people’s attention on the internet was caught by a background filmed just before Gino Paoli enters the stage. In the video, which has been circulating online for hours, Gianni Morandi and Paoli can be seen backstage during a commercial break. Amadeus greets the guest and then returns to the center of the stage to announce his entrance, and it is here that the tragicomic curtain call takes place. “Isn’t he healthy too?” says the singer-songwriter to Gianni, who replies: “But he’s Amadeus”.
Age appears to be playing a bad trick on Paoli, as in recent memory, and the Bolognese co-host asks: “But it wasn’t him disc jockey. And what is he doing here?” The connection to Amadeus’ past, when he worked in radio, is clear. Morandi, very embarrassed and surprised by Paoli’s question, explains: “What are you doing here? But he’s the one running the festival.” And Gino Paoli’s answer will go down in the annals of song festival history: “Really?”. Then the artist stepped in and staged a music revival in front of the stage audience Italian.
not Gino Paoli, who didn’t know that Amadeus was the conductor of the festival #Sanremo2023 pic.twitter.com/L7AVYrHjxG
— madi (@buonaezitta) February 12, 2023