Simone Cristicchi

Simone Cristicchi born 5 February 1977 in Rome is an Italian singer and composer Cristicchi won the 57th edition of the Sanremo music festival in 2007 and also the Mia Martini critics award His song Ti regalerò una rosa won due to extremely high marks received from the festival juries 96100 and popular vote The lyrics to the song are taken from papers he found that were written by a man who was in a mental hospital for most of his life It is a sad tale of the mans struggle with being away from the woman he loves and being exiled for being mentally ill The song has so far reached number 3 on the official Italian charts and number 1 on the official downloads chart going to become Cristicchis most successful song to date in the country Cristicchi participated again at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2019 at its 69th edition with the song Abbi cura di me and scored fifth place Description above from the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia