Kerry Ellis and Brian May to perform at Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival
15 January 2012 - Concerts, Video - 1 comment
On 16 February 2012 Kerry Ellis will join Brian May to perform at this year’s Sanremo Music Festival in Italy.
Kerry and Brian will play during the “International Duets” night with Irene Fornaciari. The song (like all the other duets to be featured) is a famous Italian song, “I (Who Have Nothing)”, written by Mogol and Donida and performed by Joe Sentieri. The song is well-known even outside of Italy, sung in different languages, the English version (“I (Who Have Nothing)” has been covered by Ben E King, Tom Jones, Roberta Flack, Sylvester, Shirley Bassey, Luther Vandross, Neil Diamond, Gadys Knight, Joe Cocker and even Status Quo… and now Brian May and Kerry Ellis.
The Sanremo Music Festival takes place between 14 – 18 February 2012 at the Ariston Theatre in Sanremo.
Tickets will be on sale for the complete week of the festival at 520 euro. Tickets for a single night only will subject to availability and not in presale, with prices from 100 to 180 euros.
Source: BrianMay.com
Update: 6 February 2012
Brian May has updated his Soapbox page today with the following:
“The news seems to be out all over about the SanRemo Festival. Gotta say I’m excited. We had a rehearsal, at my place, last week, and made a demo of the track we’re performing. Here are the two divas, Irene Fornaciari and Kerry Ellis, in their non-glam working clothes, with some old geezer who has arranged and produced the song and, it is rumoured, will play some guitar on the night. On the night it will be ALL GLAM, of course !”
Irene Fornaciari, Brian May and Kerry Ellis. © Brian May
Source: BrianMay.com
Update: 14 February 2012
You can watch Kerry and Brian perform live with Irene at the Sanremo Festival on 16 February 2012 (approx 9.30pm (GMT)) on RAI 1: http://www.respirotv.n.nu/
Source: BrianMay.com
Update: 16 February 2012
If you missed it, you can watch Kerry’s, Brian’s and Irene’s performance of ‘I (Who Have Nothing)’ and ‘We Will Rock You’ on the Sanremo Music Festival website
Or you can watch below:
Duration: 0:10:09. Source: YouTube
Update: 17 February 2012
Kerry posted the below photo on Twitter today of her, Brian and Irene at the Sanremo festival:
© Kerry Ellis
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Wow, just wow! The standing ovation was well deserved. I watched the festival from the start waiting for Kerry and Brian and noone else even came close to this! :)