Sanremo 2022, Massimo Ranieri in tears: “The Critics’ Award is a pearl” – Video

“I am excited, tense: there is a string of pearls that made me grow and this award is a pearl for my life”. Massimo Ranieri affirms it in tears, in the press room of the Casino, receiving the Critics’ Award from the journalists for the interpretation of his song ‘Al di là dal mare’ in Sanremo 2022. “I add a particular, important and unimaginable pearl for me. , a wonderful surprise! “. Read also Ranieri remembers that “the theme of migration is still relevant today. I too was an emigrant, for just one month but I was; and singing this song I saw the scene when I left Naples, as Sergio Bruni’s shoulder. I was terrified of that beautiful thing that is the Atlantic Ocean, you can’t imagine what it was for me … “. Today,” every time I sing this song I think of those poor men who travel on boats, between thunderstorms, without food and no water. I saw myself involved, in this tragic moment, in the fate of these poor people, who leave their country to find fortune abroad “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)