“Say it with flowers”… We do not know if the Italian singer Blanco knows this French expression, the fact remains that he expressed his anger by ransacking a bed of red roses on Tuesday, during the first evening of the 73rd Sanremo Festival (Italy).
Invited to perform his latest song, Isola delle rose (“The Island of Roses”), the artist, who turns 20 on Friday, was faced with a technical problem. He obviously had no sound feedback and it upset him so much that he turned away from the microphone to vent his nerves on the set.
The sequence outraged the public of L’Ariston, where the contest takes place until Sunday. Spectators and spectators copiously whistled the singer. “But what happened? What made you angry? asked Amadeus, the master of ceremonies and artistic director of the event.
Bronca
“Sorry everyone, I couldn’t hear my headset, I couldn’t hear my voice,” Blanco replied, all smiles. So I had a little fun since we couldn’t stop [la performance]. The bronca went on for a few minutes while the host tried to clear up the situation and bring lightness to it.
The artist initially agreed to come back and sing at the end of the show. He finally did not make his return, officially because the technical problem could not be solved. A little later, Amadeus explained that it was planned for Blanco to roll in the flowers, “but not that what happened happened”.
Widely commented on on social networks, the incident takes on a certain scale this Wednesday. At a press conference, Leo Gassmann, 24, one of the candidates for this edition of the Festival said “I hope he will have the opportunity to apologize, reports La Stampa. We’re young and sometimes we make mistakes, it wasn’t a pretty sight. The Cugini di Campagna group, also in competition, is less forgiving: “It’s idiocy, immaturity is no excuse. »
“I love you with all my madness”
Blanco may not have been aware, when he stepped on the roses, that he was attacking a symbol. Sanremo is nicknamed “The city of flowers”. “Nobody touches the flowers of Sanremo!” reacted Giovanno Toti, the president of the Liguria region. Behind the decor of flowers that you nonchalantly destroyed, there is the story of an entire city and the hard work of our flower growers. The chosen one invites the artist to visit greenhouses. “At your age, we sometimes make mistakes, but we can always redeem ourselves and from a mistake… a flower can be born!” “. Sanremo Mayor Alberto Biancheri said: “Sometimes when someone does something stupid, all you have to do is ask for forgiveness. »
“I apologize to the city of flowers,” Blanco wrote on Instagram at midday. He accompanied his message with a photo on which appears the text of a poem which he entitled Ariston. “I made you cry, like my mother, Ariston. You saw me as fragile as a baby and there, exactly where you taught me to run, I fell. And to conclude: “In the end, I am myself. I love you Ariston, with all my madness. This is how the young singer, who represented Italy in a duet with Mahmood at Eurovision last year after winning the Sanremo festival, hopes to have removed a thorn from his side.