Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Gianluca at home without electricity (from his Instagram) The past few days we have read again by the terrible earthquakes that keep hammering central Italy since months. This week  four strong ones caused further damage to the zones that are also suffering these days also from the excessive cold and snowfall (most snow in 70 years) up to 1,5 meters, that has also caused the electricity be missing. The most tragic news came yesterday when a whole hotel has been distroyed by an avalanche caused by the earthquake. Hotel Rigopiano in Farindola is no more, and over 30 people are still missing; two has been found alive, two dead so far. The helpers have had to ski there for ten kms as there has been no other way to reach them. Il Volo's Gianluca Ginoble, who is living the tragedy closely being from the region, Roseto degli Abruzzi has told in social medias the owner of the hotel is a good friend of his, and he was ment to be in the hotel for some relax but never made it there a...

Never stopping Nina Zilli besides touring again has time to take up a new challenge as the presenter of Italian MTV Hip hop awards in Milan on 12.12.12.  Here is more information and the nominations. The king of of them is Emis Killa with seven nominations including best album, best new artist, best artist and best song! He has released his debut album this year and already five singles of it including Parole di ghiaccio , Cashwoman  and the title track L'erba cattiva . Club Dogo and Marracash both gained five nominations. Club Dogo is also featured in Eros Ramazzotti's new album in Testa o cuore . And all three have joined forces in  Se il mondo fosse , that is also one of the nominees for the song of the year and a charity track for the Emilia earthquake victims. 

Emilia: i cantanti italiani si mobilitano per il sisma Bologna stadio dall'Ara 25 giugno Si chiama“Emilia: live” il mega concerto che si terrà il prossimo 25 giugno allo stadio dall'Ara di Bologna in favore dei terremotati dell’Emilia. Per l’iniziativa si sono mobilitati tantissimi artisti, soprattutto del posto, che ben volentieri hanno accettato di cantare per la loro terra senza alcun compenso. L’idea è nata dai Nomadi , in particolare dal leader Beppe Carletti che ha colto la palla al balzo dall’appello lanciato dal consigliere regionale Marco Barbieri, che ha postato su Facebook: “Sono molti gli artisti figli di questa terra o che devono qualcosa all'Emilia. Se li conosco, sono anche loro persone che sanno rimboccarsi le maniche”. Detto, fatto! Il concerto allo stadio dell’Ara ospiterà circa 40mila persone. Il costo del biglietto si aggira tra i 30 e i 35 euro e porterebbe ad una raccolta di quasi 800 mila euro che saranno destinati all’Emilia t...

As you may know, there was another strong earthquake in the northern-central Italy hitting the areas that were damaged already 9 days ago. Today we had at least 15 victims and serious material damage. Nina Zilli put this message to her official Facebook :  ogni tanto la natura ci ricorda chi è che comanda e a noi non resta che AIUTARCI. usate questa pagina per linkare aiuti, info e tutto quello che vi pare per far fronte alle disgrazie di tanti esseri umani. un abbraccio grande, sono con voi. stay soul z sometimes the nature shows us who's in charge and all we can do is HELP US. please use this page to link help and useful information and anything you want in this misfurtune of so many human beings. a big hung, i'm with you. stay soul. z And indeed there is a lot of information; which hotels are offering free accommodation for those in need, what to do to help people use Skype where phones are not working and so on. The initiative contin...