The singer after the performance for the inauguration of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games and the controversy over Rai which never classified or nominated him
Never mentioned by the commentator (that Paolo Petrecca who everyone now knows), never framed in the foreground. At the opening ceremony of the Olympics Ghali was there but it was as if he wasn’t thereconfused among the dancers of the corps de ballet: the invisible rapper, from protagonist to cameo without even a thank you quote.
And that more than one thing has gone wrong is not just the noise of politics and social media that says it, but he himself first and foremost: «Peace? Harmony? Humanity? I didn’t hear any of this, but I heard it through your messages. People are what really matters, and in a time of so much hate, please don’t play their game and always respond as we would like the world to be. “There are things you should never do”». So wrote Ghali on Instagram recalling the words of Memorandum, the poetry of Gianni Rodari which he brought to the San Siro stage.
The climate had already been tense for daysmany had objected to the choice of an artist who does not allow himself to be caged, who is not afraid to say what he thinks, as he did in Sanremo on the Palestinian issue with his appeal (“Stop genocide”) launched live. And then without saying it, Italian yes, but of Tunisian origins. Like a stigma.
The day before the inauguration ceremony, Ghali had published a long letter on social media reporting feeling limited in their freedom of participation: «I know when an entry is accepted. I know when it’s corrected. I know when it becomes too much.” In particular, there were two sentences that sparked the controversy: «I also know why I was no longer able to sing the Italian anthem» (which in fact was entrusted to Laura Pausini) e «I know that one language at the end was too many». To the three planned – Italian, French and English – Ghali had in fact proposed adding the Arabic one to make it even more universal Memorandum on the things to do every day and every night and above all on those – war – never to be done.
The embarrassing commentary by RaiSport director Paolo Petrecca he did the rest. Because despite all the errors, blunders and gaffes he made – “strangely” as many noticed – he forgot to mention Ghali himself, when instead he had previously mentioned all the protagonists of the evening, perhaps even making a mistake. Inevitable, the accusations against Rai have been reignited, what many believe it has become TeleMeloni for some time. Among the opposition voices, that of the Democratic Party deputy Laura Boldrini which speaks of “real censorship” and “a shame unworthy of the public service”. He also sits on the same critical horizon Nicola Fratoiannileader of Avs, who accuses “the very melonian Paolo Petrecca” of having censored Ghali and underlines “yet another shameful episode of TeleMeloni”.
date:2026-02-07 16:52:00