Gianni Morandi in Sanremo: every time from competitor to guest to co-host. PHOTO

The Artistic Director of the Ligurian music festival told it just last night, Monday 11 July, on the occasion of a live host on Tg1. Gianni Morandi will support Amadeus al Sanremo Festival 2023 how co-host of all five competition evenings, scheduled from 7 to 11 February

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With his arrival on the Ariston stage for 2023, Gianni Morandi thus reaches the quota of true veteran of the Sanremo Festival, with ten appearances to his assets between the participations as a Big singer in the competition and those as conductor and artistic director of the festival, as well as as a guest

Sanremo Festival 2023, Gianni Morandi conductor with Amadeus

The relationship that binds Gianni Morandi to the Sanremo Festival it’s like a long-standing friendship that has been a beautiful crescendo from its inception to today. The Monghidoro singer was in fact seven times a Big competitor at the Festival, which he also won in 1987 in a trio with Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri for the musical cult More can be given

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Gianni Morandi’s first time at the Italian Song Festival was in 1972with the piece I go to work which reaches the fourth place in the ranking among the artists in the competition. That year it was Nicola Di Bari who won with the song The days of the rainbow

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Exactly eight years later, in 1980Gianni Morandi returns to the Festival with the song Mariù. He didn’t win that year either, but it marked his return to the music scene after a period of relative “working obscurity”

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With the participation in the Sanremo Festival in 1983 (it is also his third time at Ariston), Gianni Morandi definitively establishes his name among that of the most important Italian singers. That year the song in competition is My beloved enemywritten by Morandi with Mogol and Bella and which gives the artist an eighth place among the over thirty singers competing

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Gianni Morandi’s fourth time at the Sanremo Festival was that of the victory pass. In trio with Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri, in 1987 Morandi won the Festival with More can be given

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Now a veteran of the Sanremo Festival, with even a victory behind him, Gianni Morandi does not give up on getting back into the game and therefore returns to the race for his fifth time, in 1995 with the song In love. Performed in tandem with Barbara Cola, it allows him to reach second place in the standings one step away from the podium

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Before the success of the past year, in Sanremo 2022, where with his Open all doorswritten by Jovanotti, reached the third place in the standings behind Elisa and the winners Mahmood and Blanco, for Gianni Morandi there was also a sixth time at the Sanremo Festival in 2000. That year he competed with Fell in lovethe song written for him by Eros Ramazzotti, which also earned him third place among the Big in the race

Not only seven participations as Big in the competition at the Sanremo Festival – almost always among the first in the standings, demonstrating his great singing talent and stage presence – there are many more times in which Gianni Morandi found himself a protagonist on the Ligurian stage of the ‘Ariston. He has been guest of the event canora in its edition of 1999 where he gave the audience a wonderful performance on the notes of Life And Break up for love

Then his debut at the conducting the Festival for the double vintage of 2011 he was born in 2012. At the 2011 Sanremo Festival, Gianni Morandi presented the Big competitions, accompanied by Luca Bizzarri, Paolo Kessisoglu, Belén Rodriguez and Elisabetta Canalis. In 2012 with him on stage there were instead the actor and comedian Rocco Papaleo and the model Ivana Mrazova

That of Gianni Morandi al Sanremo Festival 2023 in the guise of co-host next to Amadeusfor the five evenings scheduled from 7 to 11 February, will therefore be the presence number eleven on the Ligurian stage of the Ariston