Italian pop singer Arisa over
the weekend won in the champions' contest at the 64th Sanremo
Festival, the annual five-evening song competition and
entertainment extravaganza.
Arisa's performance of "Controvento" (Against the wind)
beat out fellow finalists Raphael Gualazzi, The Bloody Beetroots
and Renzo Rubino in an evening whose programme was dominated by
showbiz stalwarts Maurizio Crozza and Luciano Ligabue, a popular
comedian and a celebrity singer-songwriter.
"Everything's okay. I am content. I am truly happy," said
Arisa, as soon as she took the stage Saturday night.
Among other show-stoppers, Crozza parodied of neo-Premier
Matteo Renzi's political promises and skewered Fiat president
and Agnelli heir John Elkann for saying young people don't have
work because they sit at home.
"They didn't inherit Fiat from your grandfather like you
did," said Crozza.
The winner among the new artists was rapper Rocco Hunt with
"Nu Journo Buono".
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