Sanremo 2025 – Willie Peyote: Thanks but no thanks, a cross -section of society

Interviews

Willie Peyote will be for the second time competing at the 75th Sanremo Festival with the song Thanks but no thanks.

Willie Peyote will return to the Festival 4 years after his first lucky participation in 2021 with Never say never (the locura) “, Single that gave him the critics' prize Mia Martini and the platinum record and the sixth position in the final classification on 26 artists that year in the race.

We met Willie to talk about Thanks but no thanksa photograph of today's society. Ironic strokes to look at what surrounds us with a different lens. In the evening cover will duet with Federico Zampaglione and dionellapiaga on the song by Califano, ONE TIME SMALL.

Watch the video interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lls3-nqcc

ALBUM

The Sanremese event will also be an opportunity to publish, on February 14, “On the river bank“, 12 tracks that collect the first part of the project”On the river bank“(Published only digitally on April 26) and 4 unpublished including the song in the race”Thanks but no thanks“.

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This is the complete tracklist:

  1. Thanks but no thanks
  2. What do you do
  3. On the river bank
  4. Giorgia in the country that wonder
  5. Good omen
  6. Plans
  7. Narcissus
  8. Maybe (feat. dionellapiaga)
  9. Cowboy
  10. ⁠The last tear
  11. Dust
  12. ⁠ The law of Murphy

Web & Social

https://www.instagram.com/williepeyote

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Staff

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