Francesco Gabbani flies the Italian flag in Eurovision 2017

Francesco Gabbani with Occidentali's Karma will represent Italy at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final in Kyiv on the 13th of May.The popular Italian Song Contest is also used as the Italian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest  offers the winner to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest. Singer/songwriter born in Carrara in 1982, he debuted at the Festival last year winning the Newcomers' category, and also won the critics' prize, with Amen. His histrionic lyrics and stage presence immediately become a favourite of the public. His song Occidentali's Karma (Western karma) was the only one this year that presented a dance routine, and it's an ironic reflection on the attraction that Western people have for the spirituality of oriental cultures.As explained by Francesco Gabbani, the lyrics refer to the oriental culture and the fascination it has on the West. "You can guess from the title the combination of two different cultures. The lyrics look like a jumble of random words, but I think there are some ideas in them to think about the world today. They are ironic, in a provocative way, about our clumsy attempt to ape the Eastern habits to find inner peace. The truth is that in other people's cultures we will always be tourists”, the winner of Sanremo told to the magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. Gabbani then added to news portal TgCom: "All my quotes, such as Heraclitus (Panta Rhei, that everything flows), are intended to provoke. I played on the fact that behind our way of being intellectuals in reality we are all apes with some clothes”.
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