Marianna and Marco on stage

Marianna and Marco Morandi are ready to bring to the stage the show “Welcome to the Morandi”, on tour in Italy between January and March 2025. The children of the famous singer Gianni Morandi and Laura Efrikian have often recounted the challenges and privileges of their childhood and adolescence.

Guests of Domenica In

The two siblings will be invited by Mara Venier to Domenica In. It will be an opportunity to talk about their theatrical show, but also to share anecdotes about what it means to grow up as children of Gianni Morandi, one of the most loved artists in Italy. Let's see who they are.

Gianni Morandi's children

Marianna Morandi was born on February 14, 1969 (she is 55 years old) in Rome. She is the second child, born after Serena who died 9 hours after giving birth. She is the older sister of Marco, born February 12, 1974 (he is 50 years old) in Rome. Both were born from Gianni Morandi's marriage to Laura Efrikian, with whom he was married from 1966 to 1979. They have a half-brother named Pietro Morandi (1997), who is a rapper under the stage name Tredici Pietro and was born of Gianni Morandi's second marriage to Anna Dan.

Marianna Morandi, who is she

Marianna Morandi debuted as a singer in the song “Sei forte papà”, recorded by Gianni Morandi in 1976. With Andrea Zambrini, son of Bruno Zambrini, she was the solo voice of the song “Charlotte”, but the backing singers were the current journalists Gianmarco Trevisi and Maddalena Santucci from Giornale Radio Rai. She graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome and began her career in “Don Giovanni” by Molière under the direction of Glauco Mauri, in “L'avare” by Molière, under the direction of Giulio Bosetti and in ” Risiko” by Francesco Apolloni under the direction of Pino Quartullo. She then moved from theater to television: “La forza dell'amore” (1998) on Canale 6, alongside her father Gianni and actress Elena Sofia Ricci. There was controversy over a scene with a kiss on the mouth between father and daughter. Marianna is also on the set of “Le madri” (1999), directed by Angelo Longoni who will also direct her in “Un anno a primavera” (2005), television mini-series of Rai 2, with Giorgio Pasotti and Nicoletta Romanoff. Marianna had a nine-year relationship (from 1993 to 2002) with singer-songwriter Biagio Antonacci. They have two sons: Paolo and Giovanni, who like their father and grandfather undertook a career in the world of music.

Marco Morandi, who is he

Marco studied the violin from the age of 5 to 15. In 1997, with some classmates, he founded the Percentonetto which successfully participated in Sanremo Giovani and reached the final evenings of the 1998 Sanremo Festival with the song “Come il sole”. In 1999, he accompanied his father in the four episodes of “C'era un ragazzo”, broadcast on Rai 1. In 2000, he was with Enrico Silvestrin in the presentation of the television musical program “Taratata”. In 2001, he participated in the film “Liberate i pesci” directed by Cristina Comencini and performed by Michele Placido, Laura Morante, Emilio Solfrizzi, Francesco Paolantoni. In 2002 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song “Che ne so” and recorded the album “Io nuoto a farfalla”. From 2004 to 2006, he was part of the cast of the musical “Gianburrasca Il Musical” with the Artistica company, playing the role of the protagonist Giannino Stoppani. In 2009, he worked on the Pokeritalia 24 channel as an online poker host. In 2011, he self-produced his second solo album “Non basta essere te”. In 2012, he produced and wrote, with Augusto Fornari and Toni Fornari, the show: “Nel nome del padre storia di un figlio di…” on stage since 2013. On October 8, 2013 at the Arena in Verona, he sang with his father on the occasion of “Gianni Morandi – Live in Arena”. He was married from September 28, 2012 to 2023 to Sabrina Laganà and has three children.

The anecdotes

In an interview with Corriere della Sera, the two said that they lacked normality in their relationship with their father: “As children, we lacked mundane things: ice cream with dad, pizza on Saturday night. He was always under attack.” They also had to face their father's severity: “Do you want to sing? You must be like Liza Minnelli. Do you want to play? So like Monica Vitti.” Both siblings faced the weight of their family name, always in the public eye and with the expectation that they couldn't fail. They also talked about going to therapy for it, but didn't hide the benefits they got from their last name. Marco says: “Our problem is that we could never fail, we were “children of”, always under the gaze of others, from the way we dressed to the way we behaved”.