“All my life I have been made to believe that I was completely wrong”: this is how BigMama's speech begins in the UN General Assembly hall.
The singer Sanremo revelation launched a powerful message of equality, universal love and condemnation of body shaming and bullying in all its forms, speaking to an audience of two thousand high school students from around the world in New York for the “ Model United Nations for Global Citizens.” training program' researched by United Network, an organization associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications.
“Years of physical and verbal harassment, then the dark days of illness”
As he sings in La Rabbia Non Ti Basta, the Festival song, “believing in your dreams saves”, he says Marianna Mannone – that's her name – recounting her path to reconciliation with herself.
“My looks have caused people to view me as 'not enough' before they even met me. A fat person in other people's imaginations is a listless, lazy, inactive, unintelligent person who has no desire to be themselves. improve. For a person like me, dreaming was of no use,” he recalls, retracing the stages of his personal history.
“I come from a very small town with an equally small mentality. I had to endure years of bullying, verbal and physical. Every day of my childhood and adolescence, I remember it filled with hateful words . “Fat girl, go on a diet, you suck.” I tried for years to avoid suffering by remaining silent. The first response was anger. At 13, I wrote my first song , Charlotte, a rap about suicide and self-harm and for three years I kept it all to myself. BigMama was born when I had the strength to put it on YouTube,” she concluded enthusiastically speaking of his artistic “renaissance” which will soon be sanctioned by his first album “Blood”.
“It will contain every little piece of my life,” said Marianna who, at the UN, also recounted the dark days of the Milan experience when she felt “more beautiful than usual but was still afraid of people” . Days marked by illness, Hodgkin's lymphoma arriving when he was about to sign his first real recording contract and he had to face 12 chemotherapy sessions.
“Music really saved me. I healed, and that time finally taught me that I deserve first place. That if I don't love myself, no one will do it for me. That if I don't don't save me, no one will. do it for me. me. Because like in Anger is not enough for you: believing in your dreams saves”.
