After winning the 71st Sanremo Song Festival, Måneskin has now won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, representing Italy! The band won Eurovision with Zitti e Buoni (Shut up and behave), the song that won the Sanremo Festival - and most listened song in the world on Spotify amongst the ones taking part at Eurovision 2021 between March and May - , and gave free rein to their intense energy for the benefit of viewers. The performance gave Måneskin a chance to send out a strong, memorable message of freedom to be who we are with no constrictions and not paying any attention to what others say.
Måneskin’s staging artistic direction is by Milanese studio Giò Forma (Claudio Santucci, Cristiana Picco and Florian Boje), one of the main set design and live shows production representatives internationally. Together with Måneskin, they imagined a staging in which the energy of the band is at the center of everything, with a play of lights, videos and movements to enhance the peculiarities of the four band members and then explode at the end with fireworks to amplify the performance’s rock drive. Måneskin’s look is signed by Etro again, with custom made outfits created ad hoc for the Eurovision performance, as a result of a consolidated dialogue and exchange between the band and Veronica and Kean Etro.
Composed by the band, Zitti e Buoni has garnered a double platinum certification and over 45,000,000 streams with its raw, distorted sound. Eurovision experienced the biting rock that underpins Måneskin’s music philosophy. A meaty song conceived for the kind of stage performance that drove the band through Italy and Europe in the first long tour of over 70 sell-out concerts.
Zitti e Buoni talks above all about redemption and the desire to turn the world around through music, challenging prejudice, a central theme in Måneskin work. The song has its own video clip, directed by Simone Peluso, with band members Damiano, Victoria, Thomas and Ethan shown in various scenes during a vibrant performance on a minimalist set where music is the real star of the show. Zitti e Buoni is part of the Teatro d’ira – Vol. I album, the first volume of a larger project that will develop later this year. The idea is to narrate the band’s work-in-progress and is flanked by upcoming cornerstone events. An ambitious, constantly evolving project that started with the first single, Vent’anni (platinum). Teatro d’ira – Vol. I, recorded live at the Mulino Recording Studio in Acquapendente (VT) can already vaunt over 100,000,000 streams. It pays homage to the analogue mood of Seventies bootlegs, inspired by a desire to recreate the band’s live experience in Italy and Europe. The album is raw, contemporary, played hard and fast in typical Måneskin style and sound. Two years in the making, Teatro d’ira – Vol. I followed the double platinum Il ballo della vita, and went to # 6 in Spotify’s Top 10 Global Album Debuts, after going straight to #1 in the FIMI/Gfk album chart and to #1 in Spotify’s best-selling vinyl chart a week after its release.
Next December, Måneskin will play live for the first time in top Italian venues, presenting their second album Teatro d’ira – Vol. I during an 11-date tour, organized and produced by Vivo Concerti.
The band members Damiano, Victoria, Thomas, and Ethan saw their scheduled concerts sell-out immediately. The calendar dates are Palazzetto dello Sport (Rome, 14–15 December 2021, both sold out) and Mediolanum Forum Assago (Milan, 18–19 December 2021, both sold out), with a third concert added at the latter, scheduled for 22 March 2022. The tour will take in Unipol Arena (Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, 20 March 2022); PalaPartenope (Naples, 26 March); Nelson Mandela Forum (Florence, 31 March); Pala Alpitour (Turin, 3 April); PalaFlorio, (Bari, 8 April). The tour winds up at the iconic Arena di Verona on 23 April 2022. This will be a live event with Måneskin opening the arena’s 2022 major concert season.
Måneskin were very young when they began performing as street musicians in Rome. Their sheer energy blew audiences away, erasing gender stereotypes, mixing influences and styles to achieve an original, truly unique fusion that has brought them over 19 platinum and 5 gold discs.