"It is important to stay in time, this is the most difficult thing about success: not making a song and being successful for a short time, staying all your life is more challenging".
This was stated by Riccardo Cocciante guest at RTL 102.5 at "W L'Italia".
"The great pleasure is to see the songs continue to exist. The songs must live. When I sang 'Bella without a soul' I did it at twenty-five, now I see it in another way. The song matures with time in its interpreter. We don't have to imitate what we were, we grow up with our music ".
The artist has not performed in Italy for 10 years, he will do it again from July 19 to August 6 (Florence, Marostica, Bergamo, Pompeii, Rome, Diamante, Matera and Ostuni).
"I have chosen to do eight shows, no more, and to do them in human places. For direct contact with people. I could have chosen bigger places, but I think being a craftsman is an important thing.
It is a testing ground also for me, to check my potential efficiency and prepare for next year, when my fifty years of career will be ", added Cocciante, explaining again that he never loved" being part of a system ".
"The system is me, my island and my planet.
I stay on my planet and I try to build myself and continue like this without being too influenced by trends, even if I like to inform myself.
I like the news but I don't try to go towards them.
When 'Margherita' came out, in the full political period of the political song, that was a song not to be released.
Instead he created the corner of her, I'm proud of that.
Just like 'Notre Dame de Paris', it was a way of doing entertainment that didn't exist, neither in France nor here, it was a risk.
There were not even the places to do it, they had to build the Grand Theater for 'Notre Dame de Paris', unfortunately it is no longer there.
You have to ask to do it again. "
Cocciante has always been a citizen of the world.
"I was born in Vietnam, I only spoke French and when I came to Italy at the age of eleven I learned Italian. Then I lived in America in Miami, now I have lived for twenty-two years in Dublin, Ireland. My place of birth is perhaps the music, "he concluded.