Sanremo Giovani 2025 video interview with WithoutCri.
After the experience of 2021, when winning Area Sanremo competed in Sanremo Young, WithoutCri returns to Sanremo after a few years but with different awareness and with a new song… Beaches.
We met him for you and created a video interview.
How are you looking at the race?
“I'm fine, it's my reputation and I have the will to give the best of me. I want to live it for the devotion I have for art, when you are aware of yourself perhaps few things can affect you and I want to continue like this. It makes you feel lighter knowing what you are doing and why, I feel a duty towards those who follow me to know that you can do it and I want to do it for them too.
The market crushes a lot of emotions and the reasons why you do it, it decontextualises you and then there is a harmful part which is linked to constantly reminding others that you exist. If you're not there for a short while it's as if you don't exist.
After Amici I always met people, I received the affection I needed so I'm not down and I haven't suffered anything”
You said that this Sanremo Giovani path is not part of your main path:
“It's not the first time for me and this, as Friends, are stages with competitions and I understood that I don't want to compete. I go there to bring myself, to be listened to and with the awareness that the competition is not for me.
You can't ignore the numbers, the rankings, but to grow you can't only think about that because you lose yourself. On Amici I suffered exactly this and I lost myself. I need to give myself to others, I need to know that my music can make you feel less alone and I don't need to experience the anguish of always coming first.
Music is not a sport, for me it is emotion, it is a continuous exchange and I find it healthy and consistent with who I am”
Aren't you afraid that by arriving at Sanremo Giovani you might relive that down moment that you've already experienced at Amici?
“Yes, it's constant like drug addiction for example. The difference is the will, I'm a very motivated person with a lot of will. I had anxiety before the closed door audition but I stopped and thought about the fact that this is what I chose, it's my job and I don't have to give space to anxiety.
Even just out of respect for those who listen to me, I cannot allow myself to fall.”
How do you experience this, now that there are two of you and you are competing?
“We live it with mutual support. She knows my fears and I know hers so we buffer. The same thing happens to me with Nicolò, with Mimì and this is the beauty of being friends and people. Remembering humanity beyond conflicts is fundamental.
She is more afraid than me but I experience it that way too, but there is a lot of support and a lot of love. These are all things we need on an educational level, I experience it like a school.”
What does this Sanremo Giovani represent in you compared to the first?
“I'm happy to have lost it, first of all, and then it represents a new chapter so my life seems like a movie and this is the sequel. I live it with broader shoulders, it's something I'm doing giving more space to myself so they differ because before there was a little being while now there is a person who knows who he is.”
This song helps you. Can you tell us about it?
“Spiagge is a super sweet song, I know that many focus on who receives this song but for me it is also important who this song comes from.
It's a dedication of pure, free love and it's something new for me. I have always pushed love away but this time I am protecting it and I am learning a lot. It talks about a part of me that I hadn't yet told others. I've always pushed for fomentation but this time I'm aiming for the softer side, starting from the sea.
Every time I go back to the sea, it tells me something that others don't tell me and those who are from the sea know that you have to be afraid of the sea because it is unpredictable, like love, but you have to trust the current. If you don't trust you're on the sand. I hope everyone has someone to dedicate this song to and it doesn't have to be anyone.
I talked to my followers and asked them to tell me who their 'my love' is and they sent me everything from a little dog to a seat, sports and it's amazing because love comes in many forms and it makes you feel good.
I believe there is nothing more inhuman than this humanity so I wanted to talk about love in every form and substance. The first Sanremo was about me, now it's about you.”
What do you expect from the race?
“The public already talks about favorites and these things but I try to stay out of these dynamics. I can't tell you how it will go, every time there's a different match and you don't know who it ends up with. I haven't the faintest idea, at Amici we tried to understand what was happening and sometimes we got caught. Here, however, we don't understand anything.
As it goes, however, I feel good about myself. I know I give everything on stage and that's the only fundamental thing.”
