«Mom this time we did it, after so many sacrifices someone believed in me. Thanks Mom". Eleonora Cabras, is 19 years old and comes from Sorso, and from today as a Latin American dance dancer she sits among the benches of the Amici school , the popular program hosted by Maria De Filippi.

She left to do a casting last summer. Then waiting for an answer. Too long. "Patience," he said then, " I won't give up, I'll try again another time ." On January 2, the call that changed her life. She left for Rome on 3 January after being summoned by the editorial staff of "Amici".

On the day of the recording of the episode aired today, Sunday 8 January, the jury of teachers said yes, first of all the dancer Raimondo Todaro who had to defend his entry into the house from the masters Alessandra Celentano and Rudy Zerbi .

An infinite joy for mum Ermengarda and dad Fabio. «We cried on the phone», says the mother, «she kept repeating to me: thank you mum!» . It all started as a game, on the mother's initiative. "I always thought he had great talent and the drive to achieve more."

One evening, in the summer of two years ago, the idea of sending a video of Eleonora to the editorial staff of "Amici". « A joke shared with her friend », explains Ermengarda, «while she was distractedly playing on her mobile phone». Eleonora: " They certainly won't take me ."

Instead seven days after the response and the request to present himself at the casting. From there the long adventure between tests won and lost, up to the last call. Second of three children, Eleonora has cultivated a passion for dance since the age of 8. In ten years she has obtained various titles of Italian champion in the various categories .