In 2009 he won second place in the 59th Sanremo Music Festival with his song " Luca era gay " . Despite the media initially thinking that the song was about Luca Tolve , a man who allegedly has been reversing his homosexuality following the therapies of Joseph Nicolosi. , Povia has declared the song is about a man called Massimiliano whom he met on a train from Milan to Rome . During the train ride the man told Povia his personal story about having been gay , but now being married with children
59th Sanremo Music Festival
Sanremo Music Festival 2009
Povia