Gianluca Grignani he lost his father Paolo. She had a complex relationship with him and wrote on Instagram next to an old photo together: “And by the way, everyone should judge for themselves… Hello dad.”
It is a verse from the song Quando ti manca Breath, which she brought to Sanremo this year and dedicated to him. When Gianluca Grignani was a child, his father, a dealer in accessories for photographers, often traveled on business. In interviews, the singer often admitted that he found it difficult to accept his absence, and at the Sanremo Festival he stated: “My father lives in Hungary and we haven’t seen each other for 15 years. He hasn’t heard the song yet and I don’t want his heart to explode.
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In “When You’re Short of Breath,” Grignani talks about this Dad asks him if he would go to his funeral:
“Hello dad or goodbye dad
I’m singing this song to you now
So you know that I still love you
And everyone should judge the rest for themselves
This is the only law
What I know and respect
Do you remember when I told you?
This life requires reports from the past
Just when you’re out of breath…”
The text refers to a (real) phone call between Grignani and his father“It must have been about ten years ago, it was a time when the wound caused by my parents’ separation when I was 18 had healed,” reported the singer. “It had been an insurmountable separation, but not between father and mother, but between father and son.” He left in an inappropriate way: he put me in the middle. I felt alone.”
But in the text, at the end, Grignani releases the parents: “Hello dad or goodbye dad, I forgive you, my tears are sincere, but there are those who do not, you accept the truth and among those who do so. “ grieve, I will be your pride.