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Do we like Eros Ramazzotti?

Our score: 7 out of 10. Nothing harmful turned up, a stated stand against discrimination and a charity pledge, but the record I could read is thin and has a couple of clumsy moments.

Eros Ramazzotti is one of Italy's biggest pop exports, a singer-songwriter who broke through at Sanremo in 1986 with Adesso tu. Forty years on he was back on the Ariston stage, which tells you how long he has been around and how many Italians grew up on him.

The big recent moment was Sanremo 2026, where he sang Adesso tu on his own and then L'aurora with Alicia Keys, who sang in Italian for the first time. It reportedly got a standing ovation. Nothing about it is controversial, which is rather the point: this is a bloke whose recent headlines are mostly concerts.

In 2023, during a Florence concert, he rebuked rescuers over how long they took to reach an unwell fan. The local Red Cross committee said it was weighing legal action. It was reportedly smoothed over, with him saying it was a joke to make the woman laugh. That is a bloke who talks first, not a pattern.

On the harm test the file is clean. Nothing on LGBTQ+ people, migrants, vaccines or the climate turned up in what I could read, and he has said in his own words that he is against every form of violence and discrimination. His political comments are mild: in 2013 he said he shared some of the Five Star Movement's ideas and hoped it could really count. The 2025 Il Fatto interview stayed general and tour-focused.

There is a civil dispute with a neighbour in a Milan apartment complex. Reports from late 2025 say the neighbour is claiming more than 200,000 euros over renovation damage, and that his side points to hidden defects in the property. I found no ruling, so it is an unresolved claim, not a finding.