Gigi D’Alessio he recalled tsunami who surprised him 20 years ago while he was on holiday at Maldives with their children, after earthquake of magnitude 9.1 in the Indian Ocean. “It looked like a disaster movie… in an instant the sea became a monster that devoured that paradise and its people. It was terrible,” recalled the singer-songwriter.
Gigi D’Alessio surprised by the tsunami in the Maldives
On 26 December 2004 Gigi D’Alessio was on holiday in Soneva Fushiin Maldivestogether with children to spend the Christmas holidays.
“At the end of October I released my eleventh studio album How many loves and we decided to leave to take a break,” recalled the singer-songwriter in conversation with the Corriere della Sera.
Catania, 12 August 2024: Gigi D’Alessio in concert at the Bellini Garden
When that “metre-high wall of water” arrived, Gigi D’Alessio barely had time to pick up his son Lucawho was just over a year old at the time.
Today Luca D’Alessio he followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a singer under the theme song “LDA”.
The experience of the tsunami together with the children
“We left the bungalow and went to check on my other children Claudio e Ilaria in the structure next door,” the artist recalled.
“I was moving in thewater That it went up more and morelifting little Luca higher and higher. We then managed to reach everyone in a safe area amidst screams, desperation, destruction. Nothing was saved.”
The sense of guilt
“I saw it first hand despair of men and women who mourned their family members who disappeared among the waves”, said Gigi D’Alessio, recalling the “profound sense of guilt” for the fact of having been “saved” and being able to return to his “comfortable life”, unlike those who had lost everything, including their dearest loved ones.
The artist then recalled “the composure” and “strength” of the residents of the Maldives, as well as their “ability to form a group and help anyone”, including tourists.
Gigi D’Alessio’s next commitments
On March 1, 2025 Gigi D’Alessio will leave for his new European tour. On 2 and 3 June he will be at the Maradona stadium in Naples and on 20 June at the Renzo Barbera stadium in Palermo for the “Sicily for life-Gigi&friends” event, of the Tommaso Dragotto Foundation.
Photo source: IPA
Source: notizie.virgilio.it
