L'Espresso is on newsstands: talks Ghali, the 'forgotten' by Petrecca

Ghali is the face of the cover and the big star of the opening interview of L’Espresso, the weekly magazine edited by Emilio Carelli, on newsstands from today Friday, February 27. The artist, who has never stopped believing in the universal value of peace tells Beatrice Dondi about himself without backing down.

On the day of the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, Ghali surprisingly launched the song Basta, a scream, as he calls it, that turns the question mark into an exclamation. A powerful show left without a narrative voice on TV: in Paolo Petrecca’s inauspicious commentary on Rai Uno, his name is never uttered during his performance, as if he did not exist – an unnamed pushed into invisibility, a voice without a name. Yet the rest of the world knows that name very well: 60 platinum records, 21 gold records in his palmares, and Time listing him among the hundred young personalities who are shaping the future.

“‘Enough’ is a shout from within, a question so shouted that it manages to turn the question mark into an exclamation mark. “Enough” is a provocation thrown at two different social classes that can no longer communicate and are increasingly distant from each other. I wanted to play on the constant stereotypes that are often attributed to us, making it a point of strength and style. If we think about it, in the end it would take very little to solve so many problems in our country, but those who govern us prefer that the clash continue and fuel it by marching on the’hate” he said among others.