[GTranslate]SANREMO – First verdict at the Sanremo Festival, the event dedicated to the Italian song. Luca Gaudiano (in the photo), a young singer-songwriter from Foggia, is the winner of the “Young” section: the thirty-year-old from Puglia won the final on Friday 5 March with the song “Polvere da sparo”, triumphing over the other three finalists Wrongonyou (with “Lessons in flight”), which won the Critics’ Award “Mia Martini”, Davide Shorty (with “Regina”) who was awarded the Press Office Award “Lucio Dalla” and Folcast (with “Discover yourself”).

Gaudiano brought to the Festival a song about the loss of his father, who died in 2019 after a long illness. «I dedicate this victory to my father and my family – he said, moved, receiving the prize -. Two years ago my father left, but now I feel him here with me ».

“If I look in the mirror I see you”, sings Gaudiano who says of his song: “It is the song that I never wanted to write, but it is also the song that allowed me to talk about these issues today in Sanremo. She was born straight away, while I was coming out of a very difficult period, at the center of which there was only the absence of my father. He and I had a special relationship. The moments together became images, the images became space and I decided to keep them, to talk about him, about us, about pain and about my rebirth ”

Saturday the final of the Sanremo Festival, with the final challenge between the “bigs” and the announcement of the winner of the 71st edition.