No wall can contain the dream for
freedom says the song Humanity Calls, which the 30-year-old
Fatouleh Milad, a Palestinian-Italian artist who has been living
in Italy since he was 11 will bring to the semifinals of a
competition that would allow him to represent the Republic of
San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest in May.
"I would fulfil my dream" to take part in the contest, the
singer told ANSA on Wednesday.
Milad said he has always been passionate about music.
He travelled to Italy in 2004 when he was 9 to represent
Palestine at the Zecchino d'Oro children's music fest thanks to
his father Ibrahim Faltas, the deputy vicar of the Custody of
the Holy Land and the director of Franciscan schools.
His life has changed.
In 2006, during the second Intifada, a family from Bari helped
his own family move to Italy.
Today the artist, who has Italian citizenship, is married and
has a 20-month-old girl.
He works at a travel agency and, as an artist, wants to make the
voice of Palestinians heard "to as many people as possible".
"We are all human and we all deserve to live in peace.
"Over 15,000 children have died in Gaza alone: they are not
numbers, they are 15,000 broken dreams.
"We all have the same rights, no more walls but bridges", he
said.
Milad said he sang for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in
2018 and for former US president Joe Biden four years later,
with a children's choir in Bethlehem.
He "suffers" for his land and keeps thinking about it.
"I miss it", said the singer.
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