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Music: Zucchero, in 'Discover' duets with Bono and De Andre '

2021-11-16T19:03:16.116Z


The first cover album of his career is released on November 19th (ANSA) He did not write them, but it is as if they were his the 13 songs reread by Zucchero in 'Discover', the cover disc that will be released on November 19th, with duets with Bono, Elisa, Mahmood and a virtual 'cameo' by Fabrizio De André in 'I saw Nina fly'. At the beginning, the songs selected for the first cover project of his forty-year career were about 500, then - says Zucchero presenting the ne


He did not write them, but it is as if they were his the 13 songs reread by Zucchero in 'Discover', the cover disc that will be released on November 19th, with duets with Bono, Elisa, Mahmood and a virtual 'cameo' by Fabrizio De André in 'I saw Nina fly'. At the beginning, the songs selected for the first cover project of his forty-year career were about 500, then - says Zucchero presenting the new work in Milan - "I had to skim up to the final squad, choosing with two souls: love for Italian melody and Afro-American music ". And, even if the project started before Covid, it is somewhat affected by the period: "I personally suffered a couple of months and there is a veil of melancholy in the record, there are no aggressive or drawn songs".Instead, there are some children of the lockdown, such as 'Canta la vita', the Italian version of Bono's song 'Let your love be known', dedicated to those in Italy who are fighting against the coronavirus emergency. "Being also immersed in the lockdown - says Adelmo Fornaciari - I asked him if I could adapt it because he didn't talk about the situation in a pathetic way. Then I called him and asked him to make a cameo and he, as always, super generous, not only he sent me the lead vocals but also the Beatles-style choirs. And besides, he's not a funny coach, he said to me 'Sugar you can do more, here you have dropped tension' and I listened to him because he is often right ". Just as Dori Ghezzi was right when she told him he could make his 'I saw Nina fly': the one on the cover "it's not a canonical duet, more a cameo, but I felt the need - explains Zucchero - to let Fabrizio's voice enter like a warm wind behind my back that makes me go to the octave. "And the duet with Mahmood is a discovery. in 'Natural blues' by Moby: "I always thought he was a very talented vocal talent with a soulful tone, in the studio - he confirms today - I had proof." There was no need for confirmation with Elisa, with whom Zucchero she plays 'Luce', of which she wrote the incision, helping to convince her to sing in Italian and to go to the Sanremo Festival, which she then won. bears his signature, but 'Con te partirò': "one evening Bocelli came to me for dinner with that song,he wasn't convinced and I said 'you're crazy, it's extraordinary'. I've always thought about how I would make it, it's a beautiful Italian melody and I tried to make it minimalist, without a big orchestra, more intimate, I made it mine and I liked it "." It's nice to try to make yours the songs you loved, hoping - underlines the Emilian artist - not to ruin them. I lived this record as mine, thinking I wrote the songs. "In the meantime, he also voiced one of the characters from the animated film 'Sing 2', due out on December 23." I'm fine at home, but after a while '- he jokingly confides - I feel like I'm aging prematurely and I would like to avoid this process ". For this reason, even if he thinks that" everyone does what he feels ", he is convinced that"we have to end this Covid story and the only way is to get vaccinated, we had to get vaccinated for the tour and I do this and more for the music. "After his tour has been postponed twice, Zucchero does not hide the concern for the 14 dates scheduled at the Verona Arena between April and May 2022 and the show with Eric Clapton in Berlin at the end of May: "April seems far away but it's there, let's hope - he concludes - to really leave, I can't wait".April seems far away but it is there, we hope - he concludes - to really leave, I can't wait ".April seems far away but it is there, we hope - he concludes - to really leave, I can't wait ".

Source: ansa

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