Milan, 03 Feb (LaPresse) – ‘Being part of the “One, One, One Hundred Thousand” foundation, I did not take the opportunity to perform with Tony Effe lightly, because it is rightly an important foundation and I believe in the values of the foundation, but as an artist and as a person you have to have a discussion with this kind of music and language, because you cannot ignore and silence it. If this music is listened to so much we need to understand why, maybe we realise that the young people who listen to it, hear it with a lightness that we adults may not have'. So said Noemi, during a meeting with the press in Milan, ahead of her participation in the Sanremo Festival where she will sing ‘Se ti innamori muori’, responding to the controversy over her duet with Tony Effe. ‘This choice I have made is not to clear Tony Effe's name,' Noemi continues, ’because he brought the song to Sanremo in September, well before the controversy, but I like to support the evolution and change of a person who has weight in that language there, to dialogue with someone who knows that kind of music well. I would love to be able to bring Tony on stage on 20 September to sing ‘Una, Nessuna, Centomila’. You have to be able to find a contact and a dialogue with those who are very different from us and those who want to evolve. This desire to evolve was fundamental in taking this step, because it is a true evolution. It is not a matter dictated by the market. I give him my hand first and I hope it is the first of many hands'.
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