Love for music
We see in Alessandro the need to focus on an enormous success, the result of a history, of a great job, but with out of the ordinary results. Barely 30 years old he is already twice winner of the Sanremo Festival. With the song “Soldi”, certified quadruple platinum, in 2019 he became the first artist ever to win both in the Young and in the Big category in the same year. Internationally renowned artist, but also author with songs for Elodie (“Nero Bali”, “Andromeda”), Marco Mengoni (“Hola – I say”) and many others. The Red string is the love of music. Without barriers, fences, without the idea of wanting to communicate messages, but rather of wanting to transfer his love for the same music. “There is no single message I want to convey. I write my songs by putting what I feel into them, and once they come out they become everyone’s. At that moment the message that arrives will be different depending on the meaning that each of my listeners will see in them ».
Of course, one would say that winning the Sanremo Festival twice at the age of 29 represents a unique which necessarily contains a secret, a philosopher’s stone. “I don’t think there is a real secret. My personal life has always coincided with my musical life “repeats Mahmood:” I let myself be inspired by everything I live and perhaps for this reason whoever listens to me feels closer to me. In addition to creativity, there are certainly two fundamental things. I am thinking of dedication and commitment ».
From Gratosoglio to global success
And it will have taken a lot of commitment and dedication starting from Gratosoglio, a southern suburb of Milan. But be careful: Mahmood does not experience that periphery as a memory to be erased. On the contrary. It is his world of him, he also considers her to be a bit of his strength. He can be understood from how he talks about it and in particular from his stiffening of him when asked if he had an “even” happy childhood. “Why” also “? I had a happy childhood, a mother who made me a mother and a father and a large family, that of my mother, which for me is synonymous with warmth, protection ».
That “also” in the question was linked to the now infamous (after all it is the underlying theme of the song “Soldi”) relationship with his father, an Egyptian, who left when Alexander was 6 years old. Repair the relationship? “There hasn’t been a chance yet and perhaps it’s not the time,” replies Mahmood. But there is no anger in Alexander’s words. On the other side of the scale there is instead all the warmth of families which, especially in certain parts of Italy, represents a distinctive and unequaled character. Her mother Anna is Sardinian, originally from Orosei in the province of Nuoro. And her family is made up of 12 brothers and sisters. At the age of 18, she left Sardinia for Milan to work in her brother’s bar in Buccinasco.
The importance of the family
To put together the numbers of Mahmood’s family we are talking about at least 100 cousins. In short, a large family of which, in the end, it is understood that Alessandro accuses a little of the distance even if he admits to being «in contact. I often talk to many of them and in any case as soon as I can ». In any case, despite the absence of a father, the artist speaks of a happy childhood «because one thing is how and where you are born and another is how you grow up. And I consider myself lucky ».