Maria de Filippi, who spoke at Raggi Gamma with Maurizio Costanzo on Radio101, told how Amici was born and talked about the artists that the program has formed. Great praise for Sangiovanni
Last night Maria De Filippi was a guest of “Let’s pretend that”, the program of Maurizio Costanzo and Carlotta Quadri broadcast on R101. Reached on the phone at the end of the passage of “Raggi Gamma”, the new single from Sangiovanni, Maria De Filippi commented: “I heard that you passed Sangiovanni. I am happy that R101 passes it because for me it is a satisfaction. I am happy with everything. what he did, ‘Gamma rays’ is very pretty and very cheerful. He’s a guy who deserves a lot, he’s a smart guy, who can write. “
“I want to tell you something, – Costanzo intervened – how ‘Amici’ was born. Maria read that friendship is the first value among young people and chatting together we thought that perhaps we could try to make a program on friendship” . “Yes, that’s exactly how it went – confirms Maria De Filippi – At the time I was working for you who did communication for FIAT. FIAT had to launch, it seems to me, maybe now I’m wrong, a Vespa or a car. At a certain point they arrived these marketing researches on boys and there the idea of ”Friends” was born.
“The first episode – continues Costanza – was on the air for half an hour and Maria’s father, Giovanni, said ‘But that little scene I saw is not bad'”. “Yes, he called them curtains”, underlined De Filippi. “I’ll try to name some guys who have established themselves as Amici: – Carlotta Quadri intervened – Amoroso, Annalisa, Elodie, Emma, Gaia, Giordana Angi, Giulia Stabile, Irama, Sangiovanni, The Kolors, Alberto Urso just to name a few. Is there something, in your opinion Maria, beyond the talent that these artists have in common? “
“In general I think that all that unites all those who participated in ‘Amici’ is the desire to make their passion into their work. – said Maria de Filippi – When you mention those who are visible to everyone, then there is a whole part that maybe didn’t make platinum records and didn’t climb the charts, but who managed to make their passion their job. For example two years ago it happened to me that a girl who participated in the first edition, when ‘Amici’ was not yet called ‘Amici’ but was called ‘They will be famous’, at a certain point we were looking for a singing coach and she came, so this girl was able to live on her passion, on her music.
This year, for example, for the ball it happens that Marcello Sacchetta leaves the program by his choice; we did the dance castings and the guys when they come to dance castings bring their own choreography. I was very impressed by the choreography that a boy wore and I asked him who his choreographer was and this gives me a surname and the surname is Porcelluzzi.
At that point I tell my parents ‘How good this Porcelluzzi is, let’s make him do an internship’.
Marcello leaves and I say ‘Let’s call this Porcelluzzi’. In reality, I knew this Porcelluzzi by name, not by surname, because the guys from “Amici” have their name on the shirt. And he was a guy who had participated in “Amici 14”, he became a choreographer and this makes me very happy because I meet people who have still managed to work with what they dreamed of doing.
They work in front of the camera or behind; sometimes it is even more satisfying to work behind the camera ”.
Carlotta Quadri: “In addition to talent, the other great protagonist of” Amici “is Maria’s relationship with the boys, it is a sincere, straightforward relationship, the boys rely on Maria”
Costanzo: “I would like to say a banality: it is friendship. So from “Amici” comes friendship and this also comes with the viewer, a media kinship “
Carlotta Quadri: “About the stories of hundreds of people that you have told with your programs, is there something that has changed you? Did it change you to live the stories of hundreds of people through your programs? “
Maria De Filippi: “Yes they change you a lot. For example, in this period I am also starting to record the stories of “There is mail” and those completely change your perception of gravity, of everyday life “
Costanzo: “The most beautiful thing is a 94-year-old man who seeks his first love and cannot find it”.
Maria De Filippi: “He is looking for his first love and does not find it, he lives in Lampedusa and last year we had found love for him, he arrived but then this lady said that it actually corresponded to the name and surname he had told us , but he did not remember anything and said he had never met her, so he was convinced that the lady had lied.
He lives alone, he had his friends report a series of ladies, let’s say single at a suitable age for him and he wanted us to send the mail in an attempt to look for a wife. The most fantastic thing was that when these ladies came he would say ‘Some no, some I didn’t like’ and the funniest thing was that every time he didn’t mean he was enjoying retirement because he would only say it when one of the ladies she was really interested “.
Still on the subject of friendship, Maria De Filippi said: “Maurizio’s friends have always been counted on the fingertips and maintained with a relationship above all by telephone”.
Costanzo: “My friends have hardly changed, unfortunately the dearest ones have disappeared, but I am of a certain age and it is normal that this is how it happened”.
Costanzo: “How is Giovanni, the dachshund?”
Maria De Filippi: “Giovanni is in the kennel in the dressing room at the moment, but he looks around in an attempt to do some damage, he has already thrown down 3 bottles of water”.