Tommaso Paradiso, Roman singer-songwriter and musician born on 25 June 1983 in the Prati district, has become one of the most beloved protagonists of contemporary Italian pop music. Graduated in philosophy and grew up with a passion for Oasis, he began his career by founding the indie pop group Thegiornalisti in 2009, with which he released several highly successful albums and summer hits such as Riccione.
In 2019 he left the band to pursue a solo career, conquering the public with albums such as Space Cowboy, Amazing feeling And Paradise House. After years of career, for the first time Tommaso participates in the 2026 Sanremo Festival with the song The romanticswritten together with Davide Petrella and Davide Simonetta. Instead, during the cover evening he chose to go on stage with Stadio. Together they performed “L’ultima luna” by Lucio Dalla, a singer-songwriter to whom the band has always been very close.
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The career from Thegiornalisti to the modern pop breakthrough
Tommaso Paradiso began his musical adventure with Thegiornalisti, a band that helped bring Italian pop to the top charts from 2011 to 2018 with albums like Vol.1, Home run, Completely Sold Out And Lovemaking the whole of Italy sing. In 2019 he decided to leave the group and launch a solo career, a choice that marked a new artistic phase and which led him to release successful singles and albums that tell his artistic evolution.
Today, at almost forty-three years old, Paradiso returns to the center of the music scene as a competitor of the Sanremo Festival 2026, where he will compete with The romanticsa piece that reflects his melodic and sentimental style.
Private life of Tommaso Paradiso: long-time girlfriend, first daughter Anna and new family projects
In his private life, Tommaso Paradiso has been linked for many years to his partner Carolina Sansoni, an entrepreneur and founder of creative agencies with whom he has built a long-lasting and profound relationship since 2017. From their love, their first daughter, Anna, was born in 2025, announced with emotion by the family on social media: Tommaso explained how the experience of fatherhood has profoundly changed and enriched him, making his music and his vision of life even more intimate and profound.
What happened to Thegiornalisti and other curiosities about the artistic journey
After Tommaso Paradiso’s exit from the band in 2019, Thegiornalisti did not continue their activity with the same momentum: the end of the group was made official when Paradiso declared that everything he would write and sing would be in his name, marking the dissolution of the band and the beginning of his solo career.
Despite the emotional and artistic bond with his former companions, the collective project did not officially restart, and Paradiso continued to develop his music independently, keeping in his heart the shared experience that defined a fundamental part of his career.
The lyrics of “The Romantics”
In the text of The Romantics, Tommaso Paradiso constructs a story that seems like a whispered confession. The protagonists are men and women who persist in believing in true love, despite having racked up disappointments, mistakes and broken promises. There is no rhetoric, there is no heroism: there is fragility.
The writing is direct, concrete. The images recall familiar scenes: roads traveled at night, missed phone calls, memories that suddenly resurface. Paradiso does not describe love as something epic, but as a feeling that endures in the cracks of normality. The “romantics” of the title are not naive dreamers: they are people who have suffered and who, despite everything, choose not to harden.
I wake up to the rain falling
I hope my daughter is like her mother
So beautiful, I don’t know how she does it
To be with someone who turns on the television at night,
Always the same film, the same scene
With cannon volume
No, I don’t know how he does it
And I want to tell you I love you before I take off
Please don’t turn around when I go down the stairs
That it would be wonderful not to ruin everything
I can take you higher, higher, higher
Like you did
I hope it will reach you
Really sweet music
For your melancholy days
I wish I had a piano in my pocket
Just to remind me of us
I have my heart hanging on my jacket
Every time I talk about us
Romantics look at the sky
Romantics watch a train go away
When I drink I believe in fairies
I won’t do what my father did
Frosty
I don’t know how to do it
I will always give you a kiss before leaving
If I smoke I shower before sleeping
That it would be wonderful not to ruin everything
I can take you higher, higher, higher
Like you did
I hope it will reach you
Really sweet music
For your melancholy days
I wish I had a piano in my pocket
Just to remind me of us
I have my heart hanging on my jacket
Every time I talk about us
Romantics look at the sky
Romantics watch a train
Who runs away in the hope of seeing each other again in the future
Where kids played with the ball against the wall
And now there’s no one
There is no one left
But romantics look to the sky
And they really believe it
I hope it will reach you
Sweet music for your melancholy days
I wish I had a piano in my pocket
Just to remind me of us
I have my heart hanging on my jacket
Every time I talk about us
Romantics look at the sky
Romantics watch a train
That goes away
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