More poor than rich, at least when it comes to pensions: a thousand euros. But the Ricchi e Poveri just don't think about stopping singing and performing, Angela Brambati76 years old, and Angelo Sotgiu, 78, at least until they lose interest in fun. As they say in an interview with the Messaggero, even if the duo has inevitably reached retirement age, they have already made some calculations about what awaits them, even if for them it is a very disappointing calculation: “Compared to what we paid little. Thousand euro. As long as our health is with us, we will move forward.”
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Angela Brambati And Angelo Sotgiu They talked about their initiatives after the Sanremo Festival. They will be going on tour again, also abroad, and they don't want to stop there: “Franco Gatti – they trust us – we always carry it in our hearts.” They are veterans of their last adventure at the Sanremo Festival 2024 and return to the competition after 32 years on the stage of the Ariston Theater with the unreleased song “Ma non tutto la vita” and took 21st place. Now they are ready for new challenges: “We would like to have a musical. We are trying to understand who to present the project to. Sooner or later we will make a documentary.”
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In the meantime, we start promoting and touring again, they don't want to stop: “As long as we're having fun and people follow us, we'll keep going,” they explained. Brambati and Sotgiu spoke in detail about their career successes. Marina Occhiena and Franco Gatti, who died in October 2022, have been together since 1967 and say “music and friendship, but also luck” kept them together. After around a hundred concerts a year, they have no intention of slowing down: “What robs you of your strength is all that's left before the performance, the journey and the waiting, singing is a party.” The tour will be Ricchi e Poveri also travel abroad to Australia and Canada, but not to Russia, where they are still very popular today. After the invasion of Ukraine, they set some boundaries: “Since the war they have invited us several times, but we never went.” We love the Russians, but we will only go when there is peace and after we first go to Kiev and then gave a concert in Moscow.
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Ricchi e Poveri are among the Italian artists with the most records sold, with more than 22 million copies they are the second largest Italian group in terms of sales after Pooh. In the 70s and 80s, several of her singles reached the top of the Italian and international charts, including “La prima cosa bella”, “Che Sara”, “It will be Because I love you”, “How I would like”, “Mamma Maria” and “Voulez vous danser”. They took part in thirteen Sanremo festivals, which they won in 1985 with the song Se m'innamoro, and represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978. January 25, 2020 Danilo MancusoManager of the group, brought together Angela Brambati, Franco Gatti, Marina Occhiena And Angelo Sotgiu for a reunion of the group and on February 5th they took part as guests on the second evening of the Sanremo Festival this year.