Ghali, the real Italian sings in Arabic at Sanremo 2024

Ghali's music is manifesto, and it is even more so in this Sanremo 2024. Ghali is competing with My home the most political song of the Festival, the one in which in the same verse he mentions the “dreams that are lost at sea” and «bomb a hospital for a piece of land or a piece of bread». And Ghali was also political on the evening of covers and duets, which by definition should be the most national-popular one of I love you I love you or de The song of the sun.

The 30-year-old rapper born on the outskirts of Milan, of Tunisian origins, with a complicated childhood, brought to the stage of the Ariston Ratchopper, stage name of Souhayl Guesmi, producer, sound engineer and composer with also Tunisian origins. Together they made a medley that holds inside a piece in Arabic and The true Italian of Cutugno. The origins and what is home today. Bayna, the title which in Arabic means “to see clearly”, is the opening track of Ghali's 2022 album Ultra sensation and inspired the name of the rescue boat donated by the artist to Mediterranea Saving Humans.

At the end of the performance, the rapper gave the ritual thanks to maestro Melozzi, alongside the alien who is accompanying him everywhere in this Sanremo, then to his mother, sitting in the audience, and finally to the whole of Italy, greeting everyone with «salam aleikum”. Ghali describes the new Italy well, of which he is part.

The translation of the song Bayna

Sadness may have taken over me, time has passed
You thought your coldness would be eternal
You started blaming me
With the soul of my shadow I flew high
Even though the clouds were dark
Even though I was unlucky
Looking into the eyes of the people who betrayed, I will not forget it
But my intentions were always good
Just tell me I didn't know
And my eyes saw no clear path
But it is clear and obvious
Nothing is impossible
But it is clear and obvious
This won't last forever