Claudio Baglioni Awarded the Knight of the Grand Cross for Artistic and Humanitarian Merits

Conferred on Claudio Baglioni by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the honor of Knight of the Grand Cross for merits acquired in the artistic, professional, social, and humanitarian field. Knight of the Grand Cross, Order of Merit of the Republic - the highest and most important honor granted and conferred by the President of the Republic to Claudio Baglioni, for merits acquired in the artistic, professional, social, and humanitarian field. In sixty years of prestigious career, thanks to an always inspired, poetic, intense language - both in music and in lyrics - Baglioni has become an interpreter and spokesperson, among the most refined and loved, of important moral, human, civil, and social values, managing to involve, make generations reflect and be passionate, cultures and existential visions sometimes profoundly different from each other. A particularly significant testimony of fundamental values such as love, freedom, dignity, and the inviolability of the human person, civil rights, integration - the only effective response to the deadly culture of disintegration - the European spirit - testimony culminated in an exclusive concert held in front of the European Parliament, meeting in plenary session - solidarity - through participation in all the most important national and international initiatives - and peace, repeatedly publicly witnessed and invoked in many, passionate, autograph interventions on the pages of the main organs of information of our country. The singer-songwriter is engaged with his latest tour, after announcing his retirement by 2026.