Annalisa's Triumph in America and Beyond: A Journey of Music, Awards, and Aspirations

Annalisa conquers America. Mission accomplished. The interpreter of 'Sincerely', introduced at the last Sanremo Festival, has been the first Italian awarded in Los Angeles with the Global Force Award at the Billboard Women in Music. A personal success comparable only to the selfie she managed to take with Kate Perry. "I'm a huge fan of hers and I wanted to compliment her". To Corriere della Sera she cannot contain her enthusiasm: "I told her how much I admire her and she told me I spoke very well in English on stage". This new experience pushes Annalisa to think big, to break into other international markets, not just Italy. The first news, she confides, "will concern Spain, but also more. Not a tour yet because I have too many dates until this summer, but definitely in the future". Perhaps including going to Eurovision but not through San Marino. "I never considered it because it's one thing to be in Italy, but if it doesn't work out that's fine. It would almost feel like going against my country. But I would have been happy if Loredana Bertè had made it". On the Sanremo stage "I felt confident". The reason? Thanks to the songs. "Now I feel at home. It's a journey: in the early years, when I looked back, I thought I could do better. But now more than ever, I recognize myself". Corriere della Sera revisits why she didn't walk down the stairs of the Ariston Theatre. Everything was discussed, but never what actually happened to her. But no rumor has destabilized her. Annalisa is grown up: "No, nor does anyone think that a woman who doesn't do the stairs is automatically pregnant. It doesn't work like that, maybe at the eighth month. Last January I fell down the stairs and that left me a bit marked, emotionally, but also on the forehead, with a nice scar. At the Ariston my knees were shaking and I got a bit panicky, so I preferred it that way". Like many other artists, she is thinking of making a docufilm. "Yes, I'm thinking about it. I would like to zoom in on the work behind the songs". But without getting too much into her private life. That must be protected, left out of work: "I protect my private life, but I would like more of the humanity and the effort that's in the studio to come out. Maybe even a part of me, the party-goer, which maybe in the last videos has come out a bit". And the other part of Annalisa? "I have my weaknesses and my paranoias, but I try to deal with them privately, telling little, I don't know if it's a virtue or a flaw. I think it's right for others to talk about it, if it makes them feel good". On women: "We really need to break down walls day after day. In the charts, female presence is less, to achieve the results of men we have to work three times as hard, but things are improving. We must not give up".