#EINoriginali | San Marino • Discover Achille Lauro
A little by surprise and beating the competition, Achille Lauro will represent San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest with “Stripper”. Let’s get to know him better!
Achille Laurostage name of Lauro De Marinis, he is certainly one of the most representative characters of the last 4 editions of the Sanremo Festival.
An eclectic and constantly evolving artist, Achille Lauro, born in 1990, is an artist “in a hundred personalities”: he has been able to wisely juggle various environments and styles, sometimes mixing them together, other times completely innovating.
We have decided to summarize his entire musical career at Eurovision, so that even those who have only met through the Festival can understand the stylistic evolutions of the artist at 360 °: key words Music, Fashion and Reality.
His debut takes place in 2012 within the Rap Underground scene with Barabbas Mixtapeproduced by the Fourth Block.
In 2013 its peculiarities began to be noticed and the artist became part of “Roccia Music”, a record label owned by the rapper Marracash, under which he published the album Achilles Immortal idol. And here the innovative talent already begins to emerge: at the end of each track there is a passage from an imaginary gospel “according to Lauro” referring to the theme of the song.
In 2015 he released his second Album, God exists which takes up the themes of the first album.
The third album Mother boys it is for Lauro the turning point:
The concept of the album sees on the cover an x-ray of Achille Lauro with cocaine eggs inside the stomach. This is where the most powerful and evocative metaphors arise: mother boys generate life from “eggs”, they are alone in the world and teach other disadvantaged children like them to live a life of crime.
Lauro in this period is closer to the style of Trap Music.
The next ones arrive one after the other focusing on the new experimental style of samba TRAP: how My love And Mammacita.
Also Thory RMX in collaboration with several rappers and the stylist Marcelo Burlon it is an exceptional success; the video on Youtube currently has more than 22 million reviews.
Not only texts on the hard street life and drugs, the sensitive and tormented soul of the artist is also revealed through different singles: The beauty and the Beast it collects notable successes, as well as Penelope And Cinderella . Texts about the troubled side of love, regrets and promises of a better life.
But most of all, it is the single that strikes the public that’s life rightly considered a poem in music. The pen of Achille Lauro, a poet tormented by ancient sensitivity, collides with his drawling voice that makes the atmosphere of the song intimate, poignant and very personal.
Some wanted to ask me why I didn’t bring c’est la vie to Sanremo “- Lauro said during an interview -” the answer is simple: I don’t win the Festival.
Achille Lauro
In 2021 he released the album LAUREL. The homonymous single traces all the salient moments of his career and the most famous pieces are cited.
Exaggerated success achieved instead One thousandthe summer hit in collaboration with Fedez and Orietta Berti.
I show of reality
In 2017 together with his producer Boss Doms, Lauro participates in the Reality show “Beijing Express” traveling between the Philippines, China and Japan with the aim of making himself known by the general public.
The operation succeeds perfectly because the couple of “Composers” thanks to their ways of doing over the top, jokes and quarrels manages to carve out their well-deserved media space.
Recently, again with Boss Doms, Lauro participated in the second edition of Celebrity Hunted, the reality show produced by Amazon Prime Video, giving the public many moments of fun and trash.
Equity investments in Sanremo
In Sanremo 2019 Achille Lauro arrives as Outsider with Rolls Royce and ends in ninth place in the standings. This participation in the Kermesse which, initially considered as a discordant note, instead received great acclaim from critics and the public.
The evening of duets remains etched in the collective memory where Achille Lauro lying on the piano sings his piece accompanied by Morgan intent on playing (simultaneously) different instruments!
The chaotic rock of the song upsets the plastered personalities of the Ariston, but behind a mask made of tattoos on the face and rebellion, there is the kindness and courtesy of a Lauro totally different from the reckless boy of the beginning. Zia Mara immediately notices this and decides to welcome him under her protective wing.
But it is in the edition of Sanremo 2020 that Achille Lauro decides to make history: I don’t careor becomes the anthem of 2020 and the last happy memory before the pandemic raged in our lives. Five evenings in which, in collaboration with Gucci and Nick Cerioni, Achille Lauro gave life and paid homage to four characters transforming himself into a Pop icon: St. Francis, David Bowie, The Marchesa Casati Stampa and Elizabeth I.
The golden onesie, the disguises, the lipstick and the kiss with Boss Doms … moments that will remain indelible in the history of the Festival, as well as the exciting duet with Annalisa with the song men do not change by Mia Martini.
A Sanremo 2021 Amadeus hires Achille Lauro as a regular guest. Each evening will have the task of staging a painting singing his most famous hits: Glam Rock Only U.STribute to Mina with Bam Bam TwistPop with Penelope and the duet with Emma Marrone, Il Punk Rock with the participation of Fiorello and Boss Doms on Rolls Royce And I don’t careand finally the most beautiful performance in the last evening with that’s life where the heavy criticisms received in recent years and the chest pierced by a rose, which symbolizes the pain that words cause, are the background.
Although he wanted to overdo it and the effect was largely surprised when he failed, the 5 performances were interesting and full of meaning.
Sanremo 2022
Achille Lauro returns to the race in 2022 and in just a few minutes he stands out. The first exhibition of Sunday he sees him shirtless, highlighting an enviable physique (think of the physical evolution compared to the Beijing Express) and a series of tattoos that we have now lost count of.
However, it is the conclusion of the exhibition that sends the Italian Church into a rage. Achilles in fact stages a baptism with lots of holy water.
The singer will have to be satisfied with the fourteenth place in the final ranking of the Festival, but he will have won the heart of aunt Mara Venier.
A Voice for San Marino
Tuesday 8 February 2022, three days after the final of the Sanremo Festival, San Marino TV and Media Evolution announce the great participants in the selection A Voice for San Marino. With great surprise, the presence of Achille Lauro was also announced to the press.
The singer shows up on the Titan keeping the greatest secret about his song and performance. Only during the rehearsals did the press have the opportunity to hear his unpublished work for the first time Stripper. For him, the collaboration with the Gucci Art Director, Alessandro Michele, continues on stage.
The song will be well received by the jurors, who will award Achille Lauro the victory of the contest with a single point of difference over the second ranking Burak Yeter and Alessandro Coli.
Will Achille Lauro’s glam rock be able to retrace the footsteps of Måneskin? Will it be San Marino for the first time on the left side of the scoreboard?
See you in Turin, Achille Lauro!