Voice, talent, music, curiosity, tenacity: all these words tell of a special woman,
Caterina Caselli
, the wild girl of the 60s and the "grown up" one as she is defined today. 75 years, a first dazzling artistic life in the second half of the 60s that lasted a few years by her will and a very long second as an entrepreneur, after leaving the stage, married Piero Sugar of the legendary CGD dynasty and chosen to devote herself to music from producer and talent scout of great intuition.
Modenese like Pavarotti ("we met in Milan, we had lunch together every day, I worked with Gaber, he with Mirella Freni"), today is told in front of Renato De Maria's camera, an uninterrupted flow of memories, joys, pains ( he tells of his father's suicide, which he lived through inside, when he was 14, "a wound that accompanied me and of which I now speak publicly" and also the attempted kidnapping of her husband Piero in the season of kidnappings).
'Caterina Caselli, one life, one hundred lives'
is the title of the film, the soundtrack that is the history of Italy from its hits to those of the artists who have crossed his career, from Elisa to Andrea Bocelli, to Giuni Russo, passing through You can give more than Sanremo to Paolo Conte, from Raphael Gualazzi to Negroamaro to name but a few. Special Event at the Rome Festival and arriving in theaters with Nexo only on 13, 14, 15 December.
A treasure chest of memories, deliberately chronological, deliberately 'static', with Caselli on the sofa to tell about his life and experiences: he explains why he left the stage without regrets, "those intense years were joy, he inebriated me, but I suffered the races and the 'call of the jungle' after a few years I found it the same, helping others to emerge ". He is moved because the first take comes on the day of the death of "my dearest Ennio", the composer Morricone who was also on the label. It appears to the public natural, short hair that is growing back,
after the illness two years ago
which he had hidden under a wig. And who knows if the awareness of not being invincible is not behind the film: "we wanted to tell the story of our company, let's start with what we have at home, with the story of the mother", says tenderly
the son Filippo
, producer, third generation now at the head of Sugar Music. "
I don't do yeye songs but beat,
yeye is cheerful, carefree, cute, the beat beats the tempo and wants an angry voice", she says very young in a stock interview in which she shows, it was more or less the time of the Piper, all the strength of a woman who has always been one step ahead.
And even today, when he looks back to tell himself, he thinks about the future:
"Young people have more complicated lives than those of my generation: 60 thousand proposals come out a day in the world, 6 thousand in Italy alone, establishing oneself is really complicated", he says meeting the press. Today, the singer who 'wiggled' as they said at the time, who was impossible to keep up with, the young girl adored by the girls with her very imitated short blond bob of Vergottini, continues "to live on the edge of the future", participating in the renewal of the family label, followed by his son Filippo. "Today there is a lot of sensationalism, they are all strong, very good, smiling, the competition is very strong - underlines she who confesses that she has always been" uncomfortable with competitions "- talent is shy, it is democratic, it can go out anywhere. has quality sooner or later emerges,I still believe in quality ".