From the last place in Sanremo to the Eurovision dream, the Tananai phenomenon is growing. And an ambassador writes to him
Who said that finishing last is always a disaster? That this is not the case is the proof of the singer Tananai, of which we never stop talking. Social media are flooded with his memes, his statements and his photos. Tananai – that To open had already interviewed in the 2019 when he was not yet so well known – he finished last at the Sanremo 2022 Festival but he never gave up. On the contrary. He had to change the locations of his concerts in Milan and Rome due to too much demand, he increased his fans in a few days and his song about him, Casual sexis among the most listened to in Italy on Spotify. He is announced together the “moral” winner of this edition of the Rai 1 musical festival. squad. It never happened. A spontaneous reaction that left everyone speechless. Class 1995, he lived in Cologno Monzese and succeeded in the impossible feat of getting behind even the highly criticized Ana Mena. On the stage of the Ariston Theater, among other things, he did not go very well: his “premiere” was not a great success. Too many uncertainties. And after the end of his last performance he said: “See you at Eurovision, raga!”. It was ironic: he knew very well that he could never finish first at the Sanremo Festival. In fact, Mahmood and Blanco will represent Italy at Eurovision, the winners of this edition with their «Broglie».
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The irony on Eurovision
Tananai has irony in his blood. First he jokes about San Marino’s Eurovision – “What is the history of San Marino raga”, she writes on Twitter – then about Azerbaijan: “They tell me that Azerbaijan has not yet presented a candidate for Eurovision “. And to think that Tananai has seen us long: Achille Lauro will really be one of the candidates competing in “A voice for San Marino” to compete for the spot on the Eurovision stage, representing in that case the small state of 30 thousand inhabitants and not his Italy. Now, however, after the ironic post by Live propaganda, for Tananai even the invitation from the Swiss embassy arrives. “Dear Tananai, I am waiting for you at the embassy for an audition and a duet,” he writes Monika Schmutz Kirgoz, ambassador of Switzerland to Italy, Malta and San Marino. Who knows that Tananai, in the end, will not really be able to get on that stage. She has said it so many times that she may eventually succeed. But the hope of going there with Italy is clearly the last to die (but difficult to achieve): «I still hope in 24 waivers to go to Eurovision with Italy », he writes.
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Finally, few know that his real name is Alberto Cotta Ramusino and that he went to the Sanremo stage just to have fun. He knew that winning would be very difficult – the singers competing very strong and very famous – and from the beginning he took this experience as a way they were to “enrich his wealth of experience” but also to “get slapped on the head” which will do so. to grow up. “I’ll never know what it means to be first but the first will never be what it means to be last,” said Tananai in a ‘interview a Fanpage.it. It used to be called “Not for us“. And, while I look forward to meeting the Swiss ambassador, he can console himself with the many memes that various social pages dedicate to him every day, such as Joyful Socialists who – in the positive sense of the word – hasn’t left him alone for days.
Cover photo: ANSA / RICCARDO ANTIMIANI