Laura Pausini loses “the man who has changed her life”

Our colleagues from 20 Minutes talk about it as ” Michel printer Italy ». Italy is currently in mourning after the death of the presenter Pippo Baudo. Legend of Transalpine television, the host died at 89 years old in a hospital in Rome, without the causes of his death being revealed. During his 70 years of career, Pippo Baudo presented a large number of entertainment that marked generations of Italian viewers and also hosted the Sanremo Festival on thirteen times between 1968 and 2008. A real record! A bit like Michel Drucker with Céline Dion in France, the Italian presenter, in his capacity as artistic director of Sanremo, brought to light some of the flagship faces of local pop, including Eros Ramazzotti or Laura Pausini.

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“You have changed my life”

In 1993, the young Laura Pausini, then aged 18, won the Best Hope Prize at the Sanremo Festival with her song “La Solitudine”, which then turned into a huge tube throughout Europe. Since having become one of the ambassadors of Italian music in the four corners of the globe, the singer therefore pays tribute today to the one who truly launched her career 32 years ago. “” I cannot believe that I am writing this message She begins in a triple publication shared on Instagram: ” There are men who, in this life and on this earth, have left an indelible mark by their talent and their genius. One of them became 32 years ago, the man who changed my life, choosing me at only 18 years old among the new voices of Sanremo 1993. And since that moment he never left me, never ».

The interpreter of “Se Fue” even estimates Pippo Baudo as ” A member of [sa] family ». « The sorrow I live this evening is deep and inexplicable “She continues, inconsolable but grateful to the one who turned his destiny:” Pippo thank you. For each time you smiled at me, where you gave me a advice, where you changed my life. THANKS. I say it from your student, your friend and your fan. It was an honor and a privilege to know you and to greet you in this new journey of your life to light. (…) Goodbye to my second dad. Good trip, pippo. I love you ».

Singer Eros Ramazzotti, who won the Sanremo competition in 1984, adds: ” You did not raise me at home but on the stage of life. With your reassuring voice, with your attentive gaze and your safe hand, you have been a guide, a teacher and a confidant ». Even Amanda Lear praised the memory of the emblematic presenter: ” Thank you Pippo, the first to have invited me to Italian television ».