Among the absolute protagonists of the second episode of the Sanremo Festival is Paolo Palumbo, a 22-year-old rapper, suffering from SLA for four years, who yesterday brought a song written by him to the Ariston stage. Participation in Sanremo
Palumbo had participated in the selections of Sanremo Giovani in Rome without being able to access the final stages. Amadeus, struck by his story, had called him inviting him to the Ariston. He arrived in a wheelchair, accompanied by rapper Kumalibre and singer-songwriter Andrea Cutri who directed the orchestra, as well as by the respirator and the peg for feeding that accompany him 24 hours a day. Palumbo performed his song « I am Paul ”through the verbal communicator, that is a computer that receives input from eye movements.Jessica Notaro sings a song against violence against women
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At the end of the performance amidst the applause, Paolo told his story, inviting everyone to close their eyes and reflect on the conditions of those who, like him, are affected by ALS: «Try to imagine that your daily life is suddenly upset. In Italy we are more than six thousand to have carried out investigations that have catapulted us into an unknown world ». Born in Oristano in Sardinia and animated by the dream of becoming a cook, Paolo discovered he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 17, completely upsetting his life and that of the people around him, including his brother who left everything to take care of him and to whom Paul addresses his most heartfelt recognition. «My brother left everything to take care of me, thanks to him my fears and my uncertainties have disappeared. Rosario and my wonderful family taught me strength, which I didn’t even think I had. Mine is not the story of an unfortunate boy but of a boy who has not given up ».Sanremo, Rula Jebreal and the monologue on the femicide that moved the Ariston
When Rula Jebreal began to tell the story of her mother, who committed suicide from the abuses suffered in adolescence, on the Ariston theater and an unreal silence fell … The song “Io sono Paolo”
Autobiographical, Paolo’s song stages the disease and its course, but it does so in an ironic and light way, making fun of the robotic voice, thanks to which he manages to express himself. “If there is hope, I want to try. My eyes are enough to fly, I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed, while remaining stretched out on the bed », says the refrain of the passage.
In the life of each of us there is a dream to be realized
but they say to have what you want you have to fight
I really don’t feel like letting go
because if there is hope I want to try
My name is paolo and I am 22 years old and I have the sla
I discovered it four years ago
it took away everything except the vitality
there are those who judge me too badly
as if I enjoy sitting all day in a chair
My body has become a prison
beyond the bars I get there using my eyes and imagination
I would like to walk, eat, drink, talk get well
quickly, a family friends from kiss
The path will be long but it will make it promised
despite the tiredness that every day I bring to close to
certain things you understand them only if you live them
you look at the world from a window hoping that that day will come
I make a noise in silence because I have a character
and I give hope to every sick person in tears
I have a mother, a father whom I adore
and a brother who lends me legs and arms and never leaves me alone
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining stretched out in bed
to fly my eyes are enough for me
those times when the world is narrow
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining stretched out in bed
to fly my eyes are enough
those times that the world it is off
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining stretched out in bed
, my eyes are enough for me to fly
those times when the world is tight
Nice to meet you I’m Paul
I’m in a hurry to tell
excuse me the voice
from the toll booth
I dreamed of being a chef I managed to see myself
in a wheelchair it bothered you
This disease is scary seen outside
I fought even when I lost my flavors
I drove a drone in the sky
I spoke to the G8
and now I sing in Sanremo
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining stretched out in bed
to fly my eyes are enough for me
those times when the world is tight
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining lying in bed
, my eyes are enough for me to fly
those times that the world has turned off
I am the mountain that goes to Mohammed
while remaining stretched out in bed
to fly my eyes are enough for me
those times that the world is tight
In the life of each of us there is a dream to be realized
but they say to obtain what you want you have to fight
I just don’t feel like letting go
because if there is hope I want to try it
I believe and I say the Rosary
and it is he who keeps my hitman away
