Surprise marriage proposal: What happened on the Rockin' 1000 stage?

Cesena, July 28, 2025 – The second day kicks off with a marriage proposal . On Sunday evening, during the encore of Rockin'1000 , the huge concert featuring a thousand musicians from all over the world at the Orogel Stadium Dino Manuzzi in Cesena to take part in the huge party organized to mark the tenth anniversary of the project born from the idea of Fabio Zaffagnini, the audience was warmed up by a very romantic unscheduled event ( photos ) : Cesena native Davide Marani, musician and also the 'guru' of the mega band, proposed to his girlfriend Giada Sbrighi , who was preparing to watch the concert from the front rows of the stands, unaware of everything. As is right – and beautiful – that it should be.

So he gets down on one knee, calls her, and proposes. She jumps up and runs toward him , hugging him, like in the most beautiful fairy tales, with a rock soundtrack in the background.

"We've been engaged for four years ," she smiled, as he greeted the audience before letting the music do the talking. "And, in fact, we'd been talking about it for a while. I was hoping for a 'concrete step' from him, but I certainly wasn't expecting it here..." Smiles and emotions.

For her and all the other 12,000-plus people attending the event, which, added to the 18,000 on Saturday, brings the total to approximately 30,000 die-hard rock fans who, over the course of two days, enjoyed a birthday party like no other. Before the official start, however, there was time for a second dramatic turn of events: she, a Spanish woman in the audience, appeared on the stage and told him, the bassist about to start playing, that he was the man of her life . Kisses and applause erupted, in perfect gender equality.

Then the real thing began, with thousands of musicians plugging in their amplifiers and opening up their adrenaline. And from there, the threat of bad weather looming like it had on Saturday was gone, and only the music could take care of everything. Including Negramaro, Francesca Michielin , and Fast , special guests of the evening along with Beppe Vessicchio.