Zero to zero and the ball in the center for Renato Zero who is back on tour to come to terms with himself a bit.
'Zero a Zero - A challenge in music' is also the title of the new tour that will take the Roman singer-songwriter around the arenas of most of Italy, starting next March and with the first date set for 7 at Mandela Forum in Florence.
Twenty-three live music appointments already fixed on the calendar, to bring together two different and complementary souls, Renato on one side and Zero on the other, to perhaps make some money.
"When you do a lot and you do it with so much passion - Renato Zero explained - something always escapes you. It's a bit like when at a certain point in your life you ask yourself how many more hugs you could have given and what would have happened if It's time for me to close some accounts and confront myself, look inside myself and also come to terms with that transgression that has been accused of me and that I have accepted as habit. That meaning allowed me to constantly looking inside myself and always wanting to be credible".
The new roundup of concerts, which after Florence, with various dates for each stage, will land in the sports halls of Conegliano, Turin, Mantua, Bologna, Pesaro, Milan, Livorno, Eboli and Rome, is also the one that brings Renato Zero back on stage after last autumn's concert-event at the Circus Maximus, where he celebrated 55 years of activity and, belatedly, his seventieth birthday.
"Mine - commented Zero - is a profession which, in the beauty of being loved so much, also creates a lot of solitude.
The world does not always have its lights on and is not always able to listen to you. The name 'singer' can have a ugly meaning.
I don't want to be a singer but an interpreter of life, feelings, hardships and friendship.
Mine, however, is an active solitude, which makes me work and which probably also has a union all of its own.
For the new tour, the voice of 'Mi vendo', 'The best years of our life' and all the countless others, has announced that there will be surprises, unpublished moments and special occasions on the program.
"I won't advance anything - reiterated cryptic Zero - but on the occasion of this tour something important will happen between Renato and Zero. When we have a guest at home we get used to his habits, even if he snores, talks or eats too much. Then to at a certain point you find yourself at a crossroads and ask yourself whether to 'endure it' any longer or be able to do without it".
On the occasion of the presentation of the new tour, Renato Zero also returned to the Sanremo Festival which has just ended.
“I was asked by Amadeus – he explained – that he asked me if I had the pleasure of being there as a guest.
I simply preferred to postpone".
Speaking of Sanremo, the name of Renato Zero is back in the news again this year on the occasion of some exhibitions combined with his way of making art, which has always been. "The original always wins and I realized that my doubles are so many - joked Zero - that they become a population of potential voters.
I wish the kids could enjoy adequate preparation today before being sent on stage".