(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 18 - "My most personal record".
Thus Mario Biondi talks about "Romantic", his new album released today dedicated to love in all its forms, from the couple bond to the fraternal one, to the love for parents and children (he has nine of them).
And it is no coincidence that he has chosen to include, among the 6 unpublished songs and 9 reinterpretations of standards from the international repertoire, also "Tu Malatia" in Sicilian language to which the chrooner is very attached because it was written by his father Stefano Biondi.
A record about love, while the battle rages on the doorstep.
And Europe and the whole world are experiencing uncertainty and fear.
"It's not easy to release an album right now. I feel quite distressed, sad, full of questions and perplexities. I have many friends between Russia and Ukraine and with some I have not been able to get in touch for days", says Biondi that those places - Kiev, Odessa , Lviv - knows them well for having frequented them by artists in concerts and festivals.
"The Ukrainians are a very hospitable people, with a strong sense of homeland. It is a pain to see what is happening."
In the past days, the singer also had a concert scheduled in Moscow, which he decided to cancel.
"Mine was not a subversive action against my Russian friends.
We didn't feel like going to party.
And it cannot be generalized: not all Russians want war.
Putin is not the Russian people ". Returning to the record, Romantic is" a heterogeneous project, in which jazz is combined with soul, classic with Neapolitan: many facets of my listening ". Of the six unpublished four are in English (Romantic Song, If I love you, Loneliness, Prisoner), one in Italian (Until the last breathwritten by Maurizio Fabrizio) and one in Neapolitan. then from May 5th the theater tour in Italy will start. (ANSA).
last breathwritten by Maurizio Fabrizio) and one in Neapolitan Ricuordate with Lina Sastri, the only guest of the project.
On March 30 Mario Biondi will start with the first part of the international tour, then from May 5 the theater tour in Italy will start.
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last breathwritten by Maurizio Fabrizio) and one in Neapolitan Ricuordate with Lina Sastri, the only guest of the project.
On March 30 Mario Biondi will start with the first part of the international tour, then from May 5 the theater tour in Italy will start.
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