Edoardo Bennato presents the anthem for the America's Cup 2027 in Nisida

Since I'm an expert in sports theme tunes, they told me, 'you're also from Bagnoli, from Naples, from Nisida, why don't you make a theme song about the America's Cup?' I thought of some verses from my brother Eugenio... whoever goes to sea is a lucky man, because he knows how to understand the wind. And the magic of riding the wave is the sign of a new feeling that blows more and more to the north of an idea, which flies more and more to the south of a love. This is how, says Edoardo Bennato, the anthem for the America's Cup 2027 was born, written by the Neapolitan singer-songwriter who will perform this evening in Nisida in front of the children of the Penal Institute for Juveniles on the occasion of the institutional opening event of the week of the preliminary regatta in Naples.

"One of the reasons why I'm here is to greet the kids, to give them an energy boost, because music beyond everything is this, an exchange of emotions and purposeful energy, and I think these kids need it - underlines Bennato -. The song 'L'isola che non c'è' is a song of hope and therefore it is an invitation to hope, to believe in oneself to realize one's dreams and for a better future. Neverland - he continues - is a concept, the utopia of Thomas More. But today this island exists. In my song Nisida the lines read 'Nisida is an island and no one knows it'. From this moment on everyone will know it, they will know that Nisida is there, it exists, it is an island, it is not a utopia.