The evening of February 4th Laura Pausini chose to present I sing 2new album out on February 6, 2026 For Warner Records / Warner Musiclive in front of the Italian press, some of his fans and representatives of his record company.
Accompanying her on stage in the first part Gianluca Gazzolihost and podcaster who Pausini will also meet again at Sanremo Festival 2026. She will host all five evenings with Carlo Contiwhile Gazzoli will be busy with the Nuove Proposte competition.
Sanremo 2026, the phone call to Pippo Baudo and controversies
Speaking of Sanremo, Laura Pausini he said that the invitation of Carlo Conti arrived some time ago and who, before saying yes, sought advice from the person who discovered and launched her in Sanremo 1993, Pippo Baudo:
“They have been asking me to host Sanremo for 15 years. Carlo Conti, a special person, called me and gave me a calm, a tranquility that I had never felt before. In recent years I have been lucky enough to get to know the world of hosting, perhaps not so much in Italy, I have done a few things here including Laura & Paolawith Paola Cortellesiand then it happened that Carlo called me, and we met secretly in Rome last year.
After the meeting I called Pippo Baudo. One of the very few people who knew about this invitation, who told me, you don't have to think about it, I've already told you more than once, you're ready now. It's true, today I feel a little more prepared, I feel calm, this thing is strange.”
A passage on the discussions that have arisen over the last few months, starting from the case, could not be missed Gianluca Grignani.
“The first controversy was regarding the song by Gianluca Grignania controversy that looked like a boxing match, when the reality is very different. Now we even expect a clash between us in Sanremo, because Gianluca he will be present as a guest, this is absurd. I sing his songs because I'm a fan of his, I like them. He is a singer-songwriter that I respect very much otherwise I wouldn't have sung two of his songs plus one that he wrote for me. I really hope that Sanremo is a great opportunity for him, that it brings luck to his career, because he truly is an extraordinary singer-songwriter.”
And it is here that Pausini also explained why My story in your fingers was chosen as a “trailblazer” song, with a reasoning that ties it all together I singdedicated to Italian artists or of Italian origin, e Yo I sing 2a project that instead looks at Latin singer-songwriters. In the same passage he also mentioned the controversy that arose over his version of a song by Marco Mengoniunderlining that, fortunately, Mengoni he welcomed her with enthusiasm.
Laura Pausini and The Homage to Ornella Vanoni, Loredana Bertè And Pino Daniele
The heart of I sing 2However, the idea of homage remains as a personal choice and not as an exercise in style. Starting from Details Of Ornella Vanoniwhich Pausini recounted with a particular episode involving the great interpreter who passed away a few months ago:
“Years ago I was in a restaurant where there was a piano bar in Forte dei Marmi and the pianist was doing the Brazilian version of Details. I approached him to sing it and dedicate it to Ornella Vanoni that that evening he was there and from that time on every time he saw me he told me: this song is yours, it belongs to you, you have to sing it.”
Then Loredana Bertècontacted directly before recording her version of I'm not a ladya song written for her in 1982 by Ivano Fossati.
“When I called Loredanawhich I did with all the artists whose songs I sing on this record, to tell her that I had decided to pay homage to her, she told me: 'Go baby, let everyone hear you'.”
In the end Pino Daniele and the choice of Neapolitan, told as a personal desire and as a linguistic challenge, with that disarming sincerity that Pausini often brings to the stage when she talks about things she really feels.
“On the album I also wanted to try my hand at Neapolitan because it's a dialect that I love. I don't know it very well yet, even though my manager is from there and gave me advice. I remember that as a girl I sang in piano bars Munastero 'and Santa Chiara. When choosing a song in Neapolitan I wanted to sing Pino Danielean artist I have always loved very much.”
The live preview and the setlist of the songs sung
What gave weight to the evening, in addition to the words, was the music. Laura Pausini he sang live I sing, My story in your fingers in four different languages, Tourist Of Bad Bunny And I'm starting to love again.
Laura also presented her versions of Details, I'm not a lady And When it rainsclosing with the clearest idea of the entire evening: I sing 2 it was not created to “redo” the past, but to revisit the songs that formed it, hoping to be able to take them around the world.
Cover photo by Nicolas Loretucci
