Overview
- The meeting was a private audience held in the Auletta of the Paul VI Hall before the Wednesday general audience.
- Pope Leone XIV told Pausini he has followed her since her first Sanremo in 1993 and noted his secretary, Father Edgard Rimaycuna Inga, as her biggest fan in Latin America.
- Pausini presented a unique recording of “Fratello Sole Sorella Luna,” chosen with the upcoming 800th anniversary year for St. Francis in mind, which the Pope called “providential.”
- The conversation took place mainly in Spanish, and Pausini recalled her first concert in Peru at age 25.
- A Billboard Italia delegation presented a symbolic Women in Music plaque to the Pope, and director Silvia Danielli conferred the Global Icon Award on Pausini, to be celebrated at events in Milan on Nov. 25, 26 and 28.