Mahmood New album 'Ghettolimpo' to be released June 11th

Mahmood has announced his new album “Ghettolimpo”, out on June 11th 2021, and available for pre-add and pre-order now.

Preceded in February by his single “Inuyasha” (certified gold), “Ghettolimpo” represents a new world for the singer who in a short time has conquered a place among the most important artists of the urban pop, with a trait that makes him truly unique in the contemporary scene.

The album opens up to a world of multiple faces, where each track has its own symbolism and the story of a character who, as in the various levels of a video game, reveals itself to the listener piece by piece. A universe with many references, populated by the gods of Olympus together with various characters, where the suggestions drawn from Greek myths are combined together with the experiences of modern heroes who live their daily lives, trying to overcome obstacles in different situations. In Mahmood's Ghettolimpo we do not find omnipotent figures belonging to an unreachable place, but the description of simple extraordinary people who try to give meaning to their lives.

The album will include his hits "Rapide" “Dorado” and “Inuyasha” and of course his brand new track “ZERO” out today, which is Netflix’s new series and soundtrack. In the series, born from an idea of Antonio Dikele Distefano, Mahmood also curated an episode as music supervisor.

Author and singer loved by the Italian and international scene, after the excellent results achieved with "Gioventù Bruciata (platinum) and the global success of "Soldi" (quadruple platinum) with which he won the 69th edition of the Sanremo Festival , Mahmood dominated the Top 10 again in 2020 with “Rapide” and “Dorado” which will be included in Ghettolimpo, collecting a total of 15 platinum records, 6 golden records and over 400 million streams.

ABOUT MAHMOOD

Alessandro Mahmoud, aka Mahmood, was born in Milan in 1992 from an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. In addition to being an internationally renowned artist, he is also an appreciated author: he has written songs for Elodie (Nero Bali, Andromeda), Michele Bravi (Presi Male), Marco Mengoni (Hola - I say) and many others, and has signed tracks for Fabri Fibra (Luna), Gué Pequeno (Doppio Whiskey) and Marracash (Non sono Marra). Animated since childhood by a great passion for pop, urban and R&B music, he studied singing, piano and solfège. In 2016 he participated for the first time at Sanremo Festival in the Youth section with the song “Dimentica”, ranking fourth. In 2018 he made his debut with his first official EP, “Gioventù Bruciata”, followed by the album of the same name (certified platinum); in December of 2018 he participated to Sanremo Giovani with the track “Gioventù Bruciata” (certified gold), achieving first place, which entitled him to enter the competition at the 2019 Festival among the big names, and also the critics' prize. In 2019 he won the Sanremo Festival with the song Soldi (certified quadruple platinum) which made him the first artist ever to win both in the Young and in the Big category in the same year. The track became a global hit, with over 1,400 playlists worldwide and in over 42 Spotify Top 50 Viral charts, in the summer of the same year, Soldi broke 100 million streams (of which 39 million from abroad), becoming the most listened to Italian song ever on Spotify and Apple Music; meanwhile, the related video surpassed 100 million views on YouTube. In May 2019 Mahmood represented Italy in Tel Aviv as part of the Eurovision Song Contest, placing #2 and winning the Marcel Bezençon prize for the best music composition. In the summer of 2019 he also dominated the charts with the hit Calipso (certified quadruple platinum) together with Charlie Charles, Dardust, Sfera Ebbasta and Fabri Fibra. At the end of August he released the song Barrio (certified double platinum) which reached 53 million streams; while the related video has 80 million views on YouTube. His summer tour touched some of the most renowned national and international festivals, including the Mi Ami (Milan), the Spoleto Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival and collecting sold-outs in Madrid, Barcelona and London. In 2020 Mahmood returned with the new single Rapide (double platinum), a ballad very far from the rhythms and atmospheres of the previous singles. Forced by the Coronavirus emergency to postpone his European tour “Dei”, he took advantage of the forced lockdown to release new music: Eternantena, an impromptu song inspired by quarantine, and the popular surprise single Moonlight Popolare (certified gold), featuring the new star of Italian rap, Massimo Pericolo. On July 10th of the same year he released Dorado (double platinum), featuring Sfera Ebbasta and Feid which totaled 32 million streams, while the related video has 30 million views on YouTube. On February 3rd, 2021 Mahmood returns with the single "Inuyasha" (certified gold) which anticipates the new album "Ghettolimpo", out on June 11th 2021