Dove Cameron and Damiano David were spotted cheering in the stands at the AS Roma vs Bologna FC 1909 at Stadio Olimpico on Saturday (August 23) in Rome, Italy. Damiano’s father, Daniele David, was also sitting with the couple along with a friend.
The 29-year-old singer and actress joined her 26-year-old musician beau for the soccer match, where his hometown team won 1-0.
During the outing, the couple were seen with their arms around each other, kissing and taking photos with fans!
Also seen in attendance and sitting right in front of Dove and Damiano were another celebrity couple – Zoe Saldana and her husband Marco Perego, who were also cheering on AS Roma. The two couples were, of course, seen chatting during the match.
He became one of the worlds’ biggest musicians after winning Eurovision with Måneskin—and now the Italian singer has his sights on a global solo career. Over espresso and cigarettes in Rome, Damiano David argues that pop music desperately needs a high-fashion frontman.
Damiano David, the frontman of Måneskin, fiddles with the ashtray. Out in the Piazza del Popolo, un minuto a piedi from the hotel courtyard where we sit, a cast of whimsical men has apparently been let loose on the women of Rome. A lollipop salesman is busily seducing a crush of tourists. The maître d’ of a fancy restaurant is entertaining his waitresses by shooing a pigeon with his hat. Not one, but two jesters—first juggling, then dropping, navel oranges—are blowing kisses at the flock of pearly signoras who stopped to lob their fruit back. “Yes,” says David, almost listlessly, “everybody is like a comedian.”
In his own way, David is a performance artist of this particularly Roman strain of rakish male swag. He is the lead singer of a glamorous and extraordinarily horny interpretation of a rock band, whose rise to international megastardom reads like an absurd epic. It began with David, a street musician on the tourist-congested thoroughway of the Via del Corso, and reached one of multiple climaxes when David—shirtless in leather pants, eyeliner, and Louboutin heels—became the winner of the carnivalesque European talent show Eurovision. David’s cock-rocking Måneskin performance made him a muse of former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele and a beloved target of paparazzi, and, in one instance, it earned him a rebuke by the sitting French president (more shortly).
“Romans have this sense of humor,” he says, lighting a cigarette. But the sword, he warns, is double-edged. “It’s definitely a city of judgers,” he says.
David’s talent has been repeatedly positively adjudicated—Måneskin was voted into fame on the road to Eurovision glory—but the 26-year-old has also endured outsize critical heat. Måneskin are commercially powerful practitioners of rock, a genre that is endangered in the US, nearly nonexistent in Italy, and whose remaining advocates seem hell-bent on skewering David on ancient merits like “authenticity.”
Still, since the group’s first album in 2021, Måneskin had hits that banked 11 weeks at the top of the American rock charts. The group got a Grammy nomination for best new artist, made headlines at the MTV Music Awards (largely thanks to David’s thong and chaps), and won at 2022’s American Music Awards for favorite rock song for “Beggin,” a monstrously hooky cover of a track originally sung by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in 1967. On the wings of TikTok’s For You Page, “Beggin” soared into the Billboard Top 40, then to number one on its Rock & Alternative Airplay chart. The US press was still declaiming Måneskin’s rock credentials when David made it known that the band was taking a break in order for members to pursue personal music projects.
In Italy, David’s caliber of fame prevents him from going out in public freely. To discuss his first solo album, Funny Little Fears, due to arrive this spring, he is squirreled away in an especially jungly nook of the terrace. His usual deportment—the sweaty, woebegone dark angel driven out of hell to seduce the men and women of earth—is nowhere to be found. David is perfumed, showered, and clothed, posh in dandyish loafers and trousers the color of a hazelnut.
