Gianni Morandi’s concert in the Chamber for the 75th anniversary of the Senate. And Meloni hums “Get sent by mom”- Corriere.it

Music in the Hall for the 75th anniversary of Senate. A concert by Palazzo Madama was staged Gianni Morandi, who performed a medley of his hits to close the ceremony. Last piece “One in a thousand», which followed «Carusoby Lucio Dalla. To “present” , the president of the Senate Ignatius LaRussa, who joked: “I didn’t censor you, you had absolute freedom”. “There is a bit of emotion, it’s my first time here,” said the singer, recalling that he was three years old at the time of the first session of the Assembly. Georgia too Melons, seated among the pews, sang together with Morandi «Caruso» and «Fatti mandada dalla mamma». “Our friend Lucio will be watching us and laughing – Morandi said – when I started singing he wasn’t singing yet, think about it”. “There was a boy like me”, inspired Gianni Morandi to reflect on the absence of censorship in Italy during his concert in the Senate. Morandi sang his “hit”, dated 1966, at the end of which he recalled how at the time “this song was censored. There was talk of a friendly people – he observed – accused of killing the Vietnamese. There was a parliamentary question, I believe in the House, and then it was censored. It affects me – he commented – that today I am here to sing it. These things no longer exist, we are in a free country».

Before the concert, a celebration was held in which several ministers took part, as well as life senator Liliana Segre. In the presence of the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, and of the premier Meloni, Morandi sang the anthem of Mameli and the president Ignazio La Russa handed him the bell with which the sessions of the Assembly are always started. The Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto were present in the Chamber. And again the ministers of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, of the Annamaria Bernini University and of Tourism Daniela Santanché, as well as a representation of the Israeli Knesset with the president Amir Ohana, the leader of IV Matteo Renzi, the former group leader Pd Simona Malpezzi and the president of the Rai Supervisory Commission Barbara Floridia among the least shy to sing.

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