Alessandro Mahmoud, known by his stage name Mahmoodis a 31-year-old Italian singer who began his career in 2012 as a contestant on The X Factor, although it did not have the expected success and a year later he started working as a waiter. Even so, the artist continued trying until 2019. won the prestigious Sanremo 2019 competition in Italy with Soldithe song that would later earn him the second position in Eurovision 2019.
Mahmood took advantage of this global exposure to relaunch his musical career, and he must have done very well for Raoul Vázquez to now imitate him in Your face sounds familiar to me 11. Although he doesn’t like to pigeonhole his music, his style combines pop, R&B and hip hop sounds that have conquered Universal Musichis current record label.
Italian and Catholic
Mahmood was born in Milan (Italy) and his only nationality is Italian, but his physique transmits African features through the Egyptian origin of his father. This has caused people to approach him out of prejudice, including the press.
“Many journalists have asked me if I grew up in the ghetto, if I do Ramadan and other things like that. When I said that I was a normal italian and christian boy They stopped investigating that issue,” he told AFP in 2019. esquire.
Against labels, also about their sexual orientation
The singer, not fond of labeling himself, has always refused to answer questions about his sexual orientation because answering would imply “create a distinction“as he said in an interview with the Republic. “Mine is a generation that does not notice differences if you have skin of a certain color or if you love someone of one sex or another. I am committed, but The question of whether I have a girlfriend or boyfriend seems rude to me.“he added.
Regarding his romantic relationships, the press has speculated about the possibility that, around 2019, his boyfriend was the Italian couturier Lorenzo Tobia Marcucci.
absent father
When Mahmood was five years old, his parents divorced. His mother, of Italian origin, was in charge of raising him after the abandonment of the parental figurea topic about which the lyrics of Soldi. “It’s hard to be in the world / When you lose your pride / You leave home one day / Tell me if / You were thinking about money, money,” she sings.
“I can’t clearly clarify my memories with my father. I remember the day he left home… I didn’t feel emptiness then. “I have not felt resentment either,” he confessed to HELLO.
Instead, his father spoke to the press last year conveying a different version of the story: “It is true that I have rebuilt my life, but I have never abandoned Alessandro. […] Although we didn’t see each other often, the relationship has never stopped and I never imagined that he could talk about abandonment“he declared.
His professional pillars: Eurovision and Sanremo
Mahmood’s career as a singer and artist cannot be understood without explaining his time in Sanremo and Eurovision, two competitions that have helped him make your music visible.
Sanremo It is the largest musical competition in Italy. It is almost a cultural and social institution. Mahmood has participated up to three times, the first being in 2019 with Soldi. In 2022 he won again, but this time accompanied by the Italian artist Blanco with the song Brividi. As there are no two without three, Mahmood was also present at Sanremo 2024 with his current success TUTA GOLDalthough this time he could not win.
As a result of his victories, the artist has gone through two editions of Eurovision. With Soldi came in second place, and with Brividi He and his partner had to settle for sixth place after presenting the most famous song of the festival that year, 2022. Who knows if Mahmood will keep trying until he gets the crystal microphone…
Asked about his recurring participation in both competitions, the singer said that “Sanremo or Eurovision are a way to promote my music, but I have never liked or interested in competition“. “I put my energies into composing and into everything I experience thanks to my music,” he recently confessed to HELLO.
