# Sotto casa

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{{Infobox song
| name       = Sotto casa
| cover      =  
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [Max Gazzè](/source/Max_Gazz%C3%A8)
| album      = Sotto casa
| B-side     =
| released   =  2013
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [Pop](/source/Pop_music)
| length     =
| label      = 	[Virgin Music](/source/Virgin_Music)
| writer     = Francesco Gazzè,  Max Gazzè 
| producer   =  
| prev_title = Il drago che ti adora
| prev_year  = 2011
| next_title = I tuoi maledettissimi impegni
| next_year  = 2013
| misc       = 
{{External music video|header=|{{YouTube|Ej0ME8xdiF8|"Sotto casa"}}|type=song}}
}}

"'''Sotto casa'''" ('Outside your house') is a  song by [Max Gazzè](/source/Max_Gazz%C3%A8), the leading single from his 2013 album with the same name.

== Overview ==
Max Gazzè and his brother composed the song after an encounter with two [Jehovah's Witnesses](/source/Jehovah's_Witnesses) who visited them while they were writing music; after listening to them, the brothers imagined what might happen to such visitors if they were consistently rejected and forced to address a closed door.<ref name=nsb>{{cite news |last1=D'Amore |first1=Eleonora |title=Max Gazzè: “Con ‘Sotto casa’ porto la mia spiritualità a Sanremo 2013” |url=https://music.fanpage.it/max-gazze-con-sotto-casa-porto-la-mia-spiritualita-a-sanremo-2013/ |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[Fanpage.it](/source/Fanpage.it) |date=14 February 2013 |language=it}}</ref> Lyrics serve as a metaphor about dialogue barriers between different faiths as well as between secular and religious viewpoints, and are intended as an invitation to dialogue and mutual listening among different sides..<ref name="nsb" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Gazzè, un successo sotto casa |url=https://www.famigliacristiana.it/attualita/gazze-un-successo-sotto-casa-bop16ow5 |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[Famiglia Cristiana](/source/Famiglia_Cristiana) |date=18 April 2013 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Brinchi Giusti |first1=Fabio |title=Nel Paese dei litigi trionfa la canzone del dialogo |url=https://www.linkiesta.it/blog/2013/04/nel-paese-dei-litigi-trionfa-la-canzone-del-dialogo/ |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[Linkiesta](/source/Linkiesta) |date=14 April 2013 |language=it-IT}}</ref>

The song entered the [63rd edition](/source/Sanremo_Music_Festival_2013) of the [Sanremo Music Festival](/source/Sanremo_Music_Festival), where it ranked seventh.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Manca |first1=Mario |title=Tutti i vincitori mancati del Festival di Sanremo |url=https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/tutti-i-vincitori-mancati-del-festival-di-sanremo |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[Vanity Fair Italia](/source/Vanity_Fair_Italia) |date=8 February 2022 |language=it-IT}}</ref>

The music video of the song was inspired by [Emir Kusturica](/source/Emir_Kusturica)'s films, and features Gazzè alongside his son Samuel wandering Rome's suburban streets in a 1960s [Fiat 600 Multipla](/source/Fiat_600_Multipla), knocking at a door until an old man lets them in, and then delivering a hypnotic sermon that wins over the man's family.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tutti sotto casa di Max Gazzè |url=https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/1085111/tutti-sotto-casa-di-max-gazze.shtml |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[TgCom24](/source/TgCom24) |date=9 March 2013 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
 
==Charts==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart 
! Peak<br />position 
|-
| Italy ([FIMI](/source/Federazione_Industria_Musicale_Italiana))<ref>{{cite web |title=Il solito sesso |url=https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/music/?title=Sotto%20Casa |website=[FIMI](/source/Federazione_Industria_Musicale_Italiana) |access-date=1 March 2026  |language=it-IT}}</ref>
|align="center"|5
|- 
| Italy Airplay ([Nielsen Music Control](/source/Nielsen_Music_Control))<ref>{{cite news |title=Classifiche, Nielsen Music: al primo posto i Jutty Ranx, bene i Bastille |url=https://www.rockol.it/news-486500/classifiche-nielsen-music-al-primo-posto-i-jutty-ranx-bene-i-bastille |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=[Rockol](/source/Rockol) |date=5 April 2013 |language=it}}</ref>
|align="center"|2
|} 

==Certifications==

{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2024|certyear=2023|accessdate=2 November 2025|number=2|id=2811|note=Sales from 2009}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=true|noshipments=true}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:Italian pop songs
Category:2013 singles
Category:2013 songs
Category:Sanremo Music Festival songs of 2013
Category:Max Gazzè songs

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