From the Ballon d’Or to the Zecchino d’Oro. Karim Benzema won the 2022 edition ahead of Sadio Mané and Kevin De Bruyne, the only one on the podium playing the World Cup but his Belgium disappointed. The first two had to raise the white flag due to injury, like here Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé (protagonists of the final in Qatar) are already the favorites for the 2023 Ballon d’Or.
Meanwhile, yesterday there was another final, that of the 65th edition of the Zecchino d’Oro, won by “Il panda con le ali” sung by the Sicilian Mariapaola Chiummo, 7 years old, with lyrics and music by Virginio and Daniele Coro. Among the authors of the other songs were in the competition Checco Zalone, Enrico Ruggeri, Cesareo di Elio e le Storie Tese together with Filippo “Pax” Pascuzzi, Margherita Vicario, Eugenio Cesaro degli Eugenio In Via Di Gioia and Deborah Iurato. The artistic director Carlo Conti he ran the program on Rai 1. It aired there this morning the Zecchino di Natale conducted by Paolo Belli and Cristina D’Avena, who will perform together with the Piccolo Coro dell’Antoniano. Cristina D’Avena had faced criticism for accepting an invitation to attend the December 15 party in Rome to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Brothers of Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party. Cristina D’Avena had stated: “For 40 years I have been singing wherever I am popular and welcome. In city squares, in city buildings, in theatres, on TV, in LGBTQ+ parties and also at Unit Festivals. In Pride and in the Vatican. And always and everywhere with all conceivable commitment and gratitude. Because my songs want nothing more than those who grew up with them and bring joy and lightheartedness to those who sing them with me. Everyone, no one except I accepted an invitation to sing, not serve under a flag. I have supported civil rights and universal love and always will. After this She appeared on stage in Piazza del Popolo wearing a glittery rainbow skirt, a clear nod to the LGBTQ+ community, and then sang the theme song of the cartoon Lady Oscar (where an aristocratic girl grows up and lives as if she were a male military man) who announces her as a “Hymn to universal love, expressing everything without distinction, because love is for everyone”. She won.
“Mrs. Oscar”:
For the performance of Cristina D’Avena at the 10th anniversary party of Fratelli d’Italiapic.twitter.com/N28jbvWf6P— Why is it trendy? (@weiltrend) December 16, 2022