Gigi D'Agostino, back on stage live at the Sanremo Festival, has an ongoing dispute with a company that organizes a major music festival in Austria. The popular Italian DJ, now 56 years old and a long-time resident of the canton of Ticino, turned to the Mendrisio Nord district court to file a complaint against the organizer of Electric Love, the festival electronic music festival which is held every year near Salzburg. The facts date back to 2019: D'Agostino signs a contract to participate in the events and perform from one of the stages of the 2020 edition event. The compensation agreed between the parties is 50 thousand euros, 20 thousand as a deposit and 30 thousand by May 2020. However, the edition will not go on stage and will be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions aimed at containing the virus. D'Agostino only receives the deposit, then nothing more. The company will contact the DJ again in 2021, for the organization of the 2022 edition. “We have requested the issuance of a new invoice for the second installment of payment. This is for tax reasons, as the previous invoice was dated two years earlier,” the company administrator explained, as reported Ticinoonline. However, the artist's team responded requesting payment of the 30 thousand euros, without confirming their participation. A little later, news of Gigi D'Agostino's illness spread, which the DJ himself shared on social networks at the end of 2021. In the following months, Modusart, which represents the artist, continued to request the balance of the contract 2019, then the Austrian company issued an ultimatum: if it had not received confirmation of its presence by June 2022, it would cancel the expedition. After the ultimatum expired, it was announced that D'Agostino would not play due to illness. “They decided that I would not participate. I certainly felt like I could play and if they had paid, I would have done it. The festival announced an illness that no longer existed,” explained the DJ in the classroom, “unfortunately, the revelation of this news meant that I did not receive job offers for a long time “. And his lawyer clarified: “The second part of the salary was to be paid by May 2020, illness or not. The contract concluded in 2019 provided for it, and this was not done.” But now that he did not play, the Austrian club opposes the payment of the last installment of the contract and requests reimbursement of the 20 thousand euros already paid.
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