L'essenziale
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| Single by Marco Mengoni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album #prontoacorrere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 13 February 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Sony Music Entertainment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Marco Mengoni, Roberto Casalino, Francesco De Benedettis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Michele Canova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"L'essenziale" (Italian: [lessenˈtsjaːle]; English: "The essential") is a song recorded by Italian singer Marco Mengoni. Written by Roberto Casalino, Francesco De Benedettis and Mengoni himself, the song was produced by Michele Canova.
After winning the Sanremo Music Festival 2013, the song was chosen by RAI as the Italian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, held in Malmö, Sweden on 18 May, finishing 7th among the 26 finalists.
Released in Italy on 13 February 2013 as the lead single from Mengoni's second studio album, #prontoacorrere, the song was commercially successful in Italy, debuting at number one on the FIMI Singles Chart and being certified quadruple platinum for domestic downloads exceeding 120,000. It also became the third best-selling single of 2013 in Italy, as well as the top selling track of the year by an Italian artist.
A Spanish-language version of the song, titled "Incomparable", was released in February 2014, becoming a top-twenty hit in Italy.
The song was written by Italian singer Marco Mengoni, together with Roberto Casalino and Francesco De Benedittis, and it was produced by Michele Canova. Casalino started composing the song in September 2011, in Fano, in the Marche region of Italy. During a break in the middle of a writing session with other authors, he started playing guitar and he wrote a first version of the music and lyrics of the song. Francesco De Benedittis later contributed to the track, and Casalino recorded a first demo of "L'essenziale". In the beginning of 2012, after hearing Casalino's recording, Mengoni started considering the track for his following album. In an interview released to TGCOM, Mengoni revealed that he was not impressed by the track. Nonetheless, he decided to try to perform it. In October 2012, Mengoni met Casalino, and they rewrote part of the track's lyrics and music. During this session, Mengoni changed his idea on the track and, according to him, "it became a second skin, an obsession".
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