Coming off the success of Sanremo 2024 with the hit “La rabbia non ti basta” and now on the eve of the May Day Concert challenge, where she will take on the role of opening host, Marianna Mammone, known as BigMama, born in a tiny village in Irpinia, is now an icon of body positivity.
For the first time BigMama meets the Giffoners, but today is not her first time at Giffoni: «I was there a few years ago - she said - to listen to Salmo live. I wasn't a fan of his, but the next day I couldn't detach myself from his music. It was there that I decided to embark on this career. So, thank you Giffoni for this great gift».
«I started - she continued addressing the two hundred young people aged 18 to 35 years present in the room - thinking about myself, to vent the anger I had accumulated because of others' negative energies. The first text was decidedly self-harming. It stayed on my phone for three years. Then a friend of mine listened to it and spread it and a girl asked me crying to publish it because she identified with it. At that moment I realized that by helping others not to feel alone, I would feel less alone myself. The world hates you because you have a different body from others. The contexts in which you live hate you».
«And so it is normal that the first response to hate is hate, mistrust, fear. You end up being repellent. My first songs are full of bile. The first dates back to when I was thirteen years old. I was exploding and thought I was the problem. My way of responding to others was to pour my anger on them. Then fortunately I changed perspective and also register».