Gualazzi, I soul divided between pop and jazz

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 29 - A soul divided in half, between jazz - first and immense love - and pop. Between the passion for a niche considered in Italy and the need to listen to many. Raphael Gualazzi, after four years since the last album (Love Life Peace), returns to propose his experiments, overcoming boundaries and horizons. And we will start again from the Sanremo festival, for its fourth time at Ariston, with Carioca, a song between urban and Cuban atmospheres, which promises fun on stage, extracted from the new project "I have a plan", to be released on February 7 for Sugar . "Abroad I am perceived more as a jazz musician, but in Italy jazz does not have enough space. And so I live this dualism, with no regrets or remorse. An eternal crossover that supports my never satisfied curiosity and leads me to experiment. Because what it can be seen as a limit, in the end it becomes an opportunity. And it's amazing to see which streets can take music. "
His - he explains - "is a multifaceted approach to music, because I don't give up on the color palette that I have available". Colors and shades that ended up on his disc: 11 songs that tell the present - between social and environmental themes, without forgetting love - through the urban, pop, electronic, soul, African and vintage music fusion (like his new Seventies look ). (HANDLE).