Umberto Tozzi, a streaming concert for my musicians

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 27 - A concert in support of his musicians, his technicians, his staff, who have been stopped for over a year. This is the initiative that Umberto Tozzi is setting up, who after twelve months of pandemic, wanted to make a concrete gesture for those who have shared the stage with him for years. On 10 April, live streaming from Sporting Monte-Carlo (Salle des Etoiles), where he has lived for some time, Tozzi will perform live for the first time with an acoustic concert. "Songs", the name of the show, will be visible on the official website umbertotozzi.com. "I am happy to announce this concert because I hope it will give me the opportunity to concretely help the musicians of my band and all my technical staff - comments the artist -. They are guys with family and children, they have been with me for 20 years. years, we had a world tour that obviously has been postponed and like all those who work in the arts have been penalized by this pandemic. This concert is for them. " The entire proceeds of the evening (tickets on sale on www.umbertotozzi.com) will therefore be donated to the workers. In Tozzi's acoustic concert, the first in 45 years of career, the public will have the opportunity to listen to his hits and some songs that are never or rarely performed in concert, recovered for the occasion, such as Jesus taking the tram or Stop at the Stop, "songs that I have somehow rediscovered too". "During the lockdown I had imagined a series of concerts in theaters, this is a taste waiting to be able to start again. I also hope it will be my first and only concert in streaming", adds Tozzi, who was a guest in Sanremo for only a few weeks. , in an empty Ariston theater -. Lives are something else, nothing to do with music that is sharing, but this is for a good cause. Even on TV the music is not that great, the small screen is made for something else. Unfortunately, at the moment everything is at a standstill: we will resume, even if it seems that ours is a forgotten sector, which is of no interest to anyone, without any concrete commitment on the part of the institutions. "And then he attacks again:" In Italy there is a strange consideration of art compared to other countries, such as France or Great Britain: with us it is easy to get on stage without knowing how to do anything, it is full of people who have no profession ". However, what highlighted the pandemic was also a fragmentation among protagonists of music, who have not managed to make a common front. "Italy is not America, where when they move, they do so in a compact way. There have been many initiatives, but there was no overall direction. "Someone also ended up in the crosshairs for certain statements on vaccines." Here in Monte Carlo I did. I have also had the second dose for over a month already, they called me since I am no longer 35 and I went. It was almost a feeling of happiness, a reaction to the psychological terrorism suffered in recent months. "Songs, which will be directed by Roberto Cenci, will be broadcast on the pay streaming platform Zeye Payperlive. The goal, also given its popularity abroad. of Tozzi with his songs taken up in international productions such as recently in La casa di Carta con Ti amo and previously Gloria in Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street, is that spectators from various parts of the world can be involved. "And to think that I would never have imagined at the time that Ti Amo could cross the Chiasso border ... ".