Biagio Antonacci is a guest today on Domenica In. The artist will perform some of his greatest hits and present his new album "The Beginning", released on January 12 and already at the top of the charts after just a week.
While waiting to see the live broadcast of the program hosted by Mara Venier, airing from 2pm on Rai1, let's find out more about the singer-songwriter.
Biagio Antonacci, who is he?
Biagio Antonacci was born in Milan on November 9, 1963 (he is 60 years old). Son of a father from Ruvo di Puglia (Paolo Antonacci, who died in 2014) and a Milanese mother, Antonacci grew up in Rozzano. From a young age, he played drums in provincial bands, despite his school commitment to getting a diploma as a surveyor. After graduation, he enlisted in the Carabinieri but kept his greatest passion: music. After an audition with Ron, he was chosen by Gaetano Curreri of Stadio to open a concert for the band.
The career
Biagio Antonacci then participated in the Sanremo Festival in 1988 with the song I want to live in a moment. His first album, Things that happen, is from 1989. In 1990 he published Adagio Biagio, but the great success came in 1992 with the album Liberatemi. He becomes one of the most loved singer-songwriters by young people thanks to songs like Iris, It was never immediately, If I if she, How much time and still, You make me feel good.
The duets
Biagio Antonacci is also very open to collaborations with colleagues and artists from the Italian music scene. The partnership with Laura Pausini, for whom he also wrote some of the most famous songs of her career, resulted in a tour, Laura Biagio Stadi Tour, which in 2019 saw the two artists touring Italy with some of their greatest hits. Biagio Antonacci is also part of the National Singers.
Private life
The singer-songwriter who has been making his audience fall in love for over thirty years, with some of the most beautiful songs in Italian music, has been romantically linked to Paola Cardinale for some years. Biagio Antonacci's girlfriend was born in Genoa in 1976 and is therefore 13 years younger than the singer. Biagio and Paola live in Milan with their son Carlo, born in December 2021, and Paola's other daughter, Benedetta, from a previous relationship. Paola is a journalist and has also worked on television, alongside former footballer Fulvio Collovati in the Telenord program The Monday derby. Paola and the singer-songwriter are not currently married and have not yet expressed the desire to officiate their relationship with some rite.
The ex-partner
Another important love story that saw the singer-songwriter as the protagonist, was the one he had with Gianni Morandi's daughter, Marianna Morandi. This lasted from 1993 to 2002 and gave birth to two children: Paolo, born in 1995, and Giovanni, born in 2001. Giovanni is a singer and radio presenter, while Paolo is a songwriter and writes for Fedez, Renga, Alessandra Amoroso, Nek and other famous artists.
Guilt feelings
The singer reveals to Corriere that he has a terrible relationship with feelings of guilt. "Catholic education has ruined the genuineness of the human being, we have abandoned instinct. The sense of guilt never makes you feel free, you are always asking yourself: do I deserve this freedom?" he reveals. And he specifies: "You have to be free, go back to the forest, walk to look for food, love, look for the truth. The sense of guilt takes all this away from you". And there is a particular sense of guilt now revealed by Biagio Antonacci, the greatest: leaving the house where he lived with his ex-partner and their two children. "I felt a great sense of guilt for the children," he reveals.
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