On the third evening of the 2026 Sanremo Festival, Thursday 26 February, Eros Ramazzotti takes the stage at the Ariston for one of the most anticipated moments of the entire edition. The Roman singer-songwriter celebrates forty years since his first victory at the Festival and does so by bringing with him two songs that tell two different seasons of his life: Ora tu, alle 10.37pm, the 1986 song that consecrated him, and L’Aurora, the most recent piece in which he stars together with Alicia Keys in a world premiere.
Now you: forty years of a song that doesn’t age
Now You is much more than a love song. It is the autobiographical story of a boy who grew up on the edge of the Roman suburbs, in a neighborhood where trams don’t arrive and dreaming costs less than dealing with reality. The text speaks of sacrifices, of punches received, of climbs faced without looking back. And then of the arrival of a person capable of giving meaning to that whole journey, transforming it into a silent revenge on everything that seemed impossible. Forty years later those words have lost none of their strength. Indeed, they resonate with even more weight, sung by a man who truly experienced everything the lyrics promised.
L’Aurora: the duet with Alicia Keys
The other protagonist of the evening is L’Aurora, a song from the new album Una Storia Importante, which Ramazzotti shared in the studio with Alicia Keys. Tonight the two perform together live for the first time ever, in what is effectively a world premiere. A meeting between two musical worlds geographically distant but close in their ability to express emotions: the tradition of Italian song on the one hand, international R&B on the other. The Aurora thus becomes the symbol of a career that after forty years continues to look forward, without ceasing to surprise.
