He was accused of not mentioning Ermal's late words for Albania

Ermal Meta managed to win after much trouble in the Sanremo cup, making all Albanians around the world proud.

Meta and his colleague Fabrizio Moro won “Sanremo 2018” with song “My own lucktto niente”.

Although there were people who accused him of not mentioning Albanian origin at all, a media in Italy has dedicated him last year to a profile of his childhood in Albania.

Italian portal “Sorris.com”, in March 2017, has dedicated Ermal Meta to a complete article on his childhood.

Here we bring you full article from Italian media

Ermal Meta: I tell you all the truth about me

Fenomen Ermal Meta continues after Sanremos: The album flew to the top of the super classification. We've made it reveal its secrets.

“Ermal select a place to go with your friends for lunch”, so we put them on the phone. And he invited us to a restaurant in the suburbs of Milan. He came in a car, I recognized him from his fine black hair. Let's sit on the table. His golden moment was the third-place finish in Sanremo, with the song Vaitato Morire. It's a refined guy, an artist with an extraordinary story to tell out of his life”.

Understanding My Name

“Ermal is a very popular name in Albania, my native country. Meaning? I've come from the Mountain, as you have here in Italy the names Carlo or Alexander. Albanian culture is full of beautiful and full names and full of meaning”.

How I Came to Italy

“Albania is an extraordinary country, for the country and for the people living there. I came to Italy 20 years ago with a normal ferry, along with their brother, sister, and mother. And not with gomone, as they wrote about me. I was born and raised in Fier, one of the most beautiful places in Eagleland. I was in Albania five years ago and I'm still in love with her. When asked how my childhood was, I simply answered; beautiful. But the truth is, I keep many things belonging to those years, but I remember them from the marks that still exist in my body. I have left in Albania a difficult period (during the collapse of the communist system, after a long decade of that regime) when people with ideas, culture and the desire to make art could not rebel. But I was a kid and I didn't understand what happened. My song “Vietato morre” has inside it a personal story, (text shows the rebellion of a child abused by father)”

First Contact With Music

The love of music is early, since I was 4 or 5. I come from a family of musicians. My mother is a violinist, and she often took me to her concerts. I was impressed by her world. The piano was like a key game, an extraordinary toy. Oppressing the keys and thinking out of pride. I wrote my first song when I was 12 years old, and I dedicated it to a girl I liked at the time. I met that girl after a few years at sea”

From Study to Festival

I have always done my duty as a child with a full commitment to study. I've had excellent grades: As far as stubborn and determined, no one beat me up. Even today I'm a little like this. I lived all my teenage years in Bari, where I graduated from high school, science high school, and where I studied languages at university: I only need one test. Meanwhile, my emergency music has become a full - time profession, starting with local groups. At the age of 24, I entered Ameba 4, followed by Catherine Caselli. We participated in Sanremo 2006, led by Giorgio Panariello. They eliminated us after the first show. Meanwhile, I was writing songs, but I kept them to myself. Since 2007, at the birth of the La Family di Camilla group, I was able to transform my passion into a job thanks to concerts. We haven't made a lot of money because doing too many concerts in the group is expensive and what's left is very little for you. I joined them in Sanremo in 2010, but even then we were eliminated. We were destroyed four years ago”, writes panorama.

Author's Life

The first time I gave for another artist was” Heart color “, Jessica Brando in 2010. Two years later I worked with Francesca M I CHIEL and from there my career was born, to say, “parile” that reached its first peak by writing three pieces of Marco Mengon for the “Ready to Run” album. When I give a song to another artist I never find out why I wrote it. It is fair that translators will not be influenced: they should link my texts with their world, with their lives. I heard some of my songs sing and I say to myself: “They didn't make it real!” At other times, however, they have given a new, different and special meaning. In everything I do, even today, I don't think about economic gain.