Laura Pausini is nominated for her first Oscar award. An unimaginable nomination, he says. The Italian singer arrives at the 93rd edition of the Academy Awards with a song in her language, from a foreign film that premiered on Netflix, a platform that until recently was seen out of the corner of the eye at the Oscars.
This is “Io sì”, the original song from the movie “The Life Ahead”, starring a Hollywood darling, Sophia Loren.
Pausini, along with Diane Warren – an old acquaintance of the Oscars – compete in the category of “best original song.”
For Pausini, being nominated for an Oscar goes beyond her dreams. Because as a child, she told Zona Pop Citizen Free Press, she thought that these awards were out of the reach of a singer who began her career with her father on piano bars of Italy.
“Being I from a small town, I did not sincerely think that it was possible to dream until going to the ‘San Remo Festival’, which is the most important music competition we have in Italy. Imagine then how it was impossible to dream of the Grammys, unattainable because I did not dream of it. Golden Globe and Oscar, I didn’t think it was for singers, ”says Pausini.
Laura Pausini, with the illusion of a girl
The interpreter of songs like “He left” and “Strange loves” says she feels like a girl who opens a box of sweets.
“I say all this in a way … like a girl who opens a box of candy that will never end, because those are things that I will not forget for the rest of my life,” she says.
However Pausini, who has already achieved several of those unattainable (1 Grammy Award, 4 Latin Grammy and a Golden Globe), all this dream is thanks to his “babbo”, to the original Pausini, to his father. And it is precisely him who will thank this Sunday for raising the Oscar for the “best original song.”
“I owe everything to my father because he really always told me ‘I don’t like it when you dream small’. It did not seem to me that my dream was small, it seemed giant to me! But I think he deserves what I have. Your ambition is much bigger than mine. And I owe him everything, “he says.
«I want to be very sincere. This would be the talk that I would do if I won. But as I have the feeling that it is very difficult being the song in Italian, so yesterday I said: ‘I’m going to say it in the speech because if I don’t win, at least he knows it,’ “said Pausini.