(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 14 - "With six unreleased tracks, I could make a new record. But I like to make records that are always different. And so this is an extension of DOC, the next one will be completely different, the result of another research and another travel".
Zucchero describes "DOC Deluxe Edition", the version of the last album released with six new songs, including "September" with Sting.
"To say thank you to this pandemic is outrageous. But it is thanks to this situation that I have been more in contact with artist friends, such as Sting and projects and collaborations were born".
Like when in April she sang in front of the Colosseum in Rome Canta lavita, from "Let Your Love Be Know" by Bono Vox with the in Italian text by Zucchero, or in Piazza San Marco in Venice in May Love Now !, an Italian adaptation of No Time ForLove Like Now by Michael Stipe.
But Zucchero was also called by Lady Gaga for the mega-concert in streaming in favor of the WHO.
Streaming: a necessity in this period of rest.
"Manon does so much for me, I need contact with the public", he says, then pointing the finger at institutions guilty of being little interested in the world of culture.
"We don't talk about music, nor about theater or cinema. Yet there have been demonstrations to hear us. But as long as we consider our job just a fun we won't go far. We need more attention and above all I would like the promised money to reach the workers. Meanwhile, my people. I think in the first person until we leave ".
The program includes fourteen dates at the Verona Arena, between April 23 and May 8 2021, and a world tour of over 150 dates: "in mid-January we will know if they can be done".
But it is politics in general that has disappointed him a bit.
"I no longer misrepresent so much for what my origins are, for the ideology with which I grew up. It's all a bit watered down".
Not to do even social media for him: "They are like the pig's tie. I prefer the narrow hand to the docks."
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