Tiziano Ferro concretely opens up the possibility of participating in the competition Sanremo Festival. He did so in recent days in a meeting with the press for the presentation of I'm a big guy – Deluxeanswering a question from Adnkronos with words that leave no ambiguity.
“I would like to participate in the competition at the Sanremo Festival: with the right song I would do it. I have changed, today I am more serene and I wouldn't care about the competition. The participation of Georgie taught us that not being in the top five is not a problem”.
A statement that reopens the dilemma for the umpteenth time: will Tiziano be competing at the festival this year?, just in the days in which the first rumors about Sanremo 2027 come out Stefano De Martino.
The Latina singer-songwriter, throughout his career, has never competed on the stageAriston from Big, despite having been a guest several times.
The invitation of Carlo Conti That Tiziano Ferro had to decline
In the same meeting, Tiziano Ferro told the backstory of a missed opportunity. Carlo Contiin the last edition, had invited him to participate in the competition, but the singer-songwriter had to refuse for recording calendar reasons.
“He asked me to go, but I was about to go out with the album and I couldn't stop everything: a hundred people work there, with a hundred families to support”.
The reference is to the album I'm greatof which the Deluxe version is being released right now. The same Iron made a point of recognizing the work done by Amadeus in that cycle: “The Festival was a bit dormant and he reactivated it”.
The link between Tiziano Ferro and Sanremo: a 28-year history
The one between Tiziano Ferro and the Sanremo Festival it is a bond that goes back a long way. In 1997, still unknown to the general public, the young Ferro enrolled in the Sanremo Song Academy with the song When you returnwith the intention of participating in the Festival 1998. He was rejected at the first selections.
The following year he tries again with the same song: he arrives among the 12 finalists, but does not win one of the three places that would have guaranteed him access to the Festival 1999.
From then on the relationship with the Festival transforms. Iron becomes one of the most important voices of Italian pop and Sanremo hosts it repeatedly: in 2006 with Michele Zarrillo on the duets evening, in 2007 to present I'll take a photo of youin 2010 he was supposed to go on stage with Mary J. Bligebut laryngitis prevented him from performing in 2015 with a medley of his most beloved songs. In 2017 to reinterpret I fell in love with you Of Luigi Tenco And The comfort together with Carmen Consoli.
In 2020 the presence becomes total: Iron he is a regular guest on all five evenings of Festival Of Amadeuswith memorable covers like In the blue painted blue, At least you in the universe And Take me dancingin addition to duets with Massimo Ranieri And Fiorello. The last passage in chronological order is February 24, 2026, guest of the first evening of Carlo Conti And Laura Pausini.
The case I can't explain it: the parachute song designed for Sanremo
There is an episode that Ferro told in 2003, during the presentation of his second album in the meeting with his fan club. When it came out Relative Redthe singer-songwriter's first album, his producers and managers at the time, Mara Maionchi And Alberto Salernothey decided to keep a song off the album. The idea was: if the debut went badly, we would try the Sanremo card by bringing that ballad to the Festival as plan B.
The song was I can't explain it. The debut went very well, plan B was never necessary, and that piece later became one of the most loved songs in the catalog of Iron.
Tiziano Ferro to Sanremo 2027: the duo hypothesis with Laura Pausini
To the statements of Iron adds a rumor that has been circulating in recent hours, again relaunched by Adnkronos: the possible participation in the race together with Laura Pausini. It is useful to remain cautious on this detail.
The same one Pausiniduring her recent experience co-hosting the Festival, repeatedly reiterated that she felt scared by the idea of the competition. A duo between the two singer-songwriters would be a historic event, but the conditions for it to happen today seem far from ripe.
What appears more and more concrete, however, is that the next one Sanremo Festival could be the time when Tiziano Ferro he finally closes the circle with the demonstration that, twenty-eight years ago, told him no.
