Zucchero: 'I don't care about fashion and political correctness'

Direct and genuine as always. True and combative like his land. That Emilia-Romagna that rolls up its sleeves and moves forward. All the time. And that he, Zucchero, does not forget at the Italian start of 2023 of the World Wild Tour, from the Baths of Caracalla to Rome (it is repeated tonight, then on 2, 3 and 4 June). "Per la Romagna" battered by the flood sings Let it shine, the song he wrote in 2006 for New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina. "I changed a verse to substitute the word 'Mississippi' for 'my land.' I haven't said much more, but what do you mean that others haven't already said without falling into rhetoric?" The connection with Bruce Springsteen - accused of not having said anything from the Ferrara stage in the midst of the emergency - arrives on time: "Knowing him, he didn't know anything to me: he is someone attentive to these things, like Bono or Peter Gabriel". But Zucchero already goes further: "On June 24, however, for Italy Loves Romagna at the charity concert at the Rcf Arena in Reggio Emilia I will be there".
The stage, among other things, will be the one he will use for the party in his Reggio on 9 and 10 June. "Compared to the rest of the tour it will be a party - he says -. I invited Salmo: they had been telling me for years to do something with young people, these rappers and trappers, those shit there. But I had never spotted anyone. Instead I was struck by him in Sanremo to do Devil in me.
Others who turn are there, but it is decided at the last moment".
True, it was said. Fluently, as always. "If someone has doubts about the fact that next to songs defined as sublime as Dune Mosse or Un soffio caldo, I write tavern stuff like Vedo nero or Bacco perbacco, full of double meanings, then he has not understood anything about the blues. Discomfort and sex go hand in hand. And then I don't give a shit about political correctness. Like fashion. Even in Sanremo I went dressed as a nostromo tuna". During the live Zucchero, who revealed that he was without a record contract after the last deadline, he also paid tribute to his friend Luciano Pavarotti on the notes of Miserere (also wearing a scarf that the maestro gave him) and to Tina Turner, who died in recent days.