Fiorella Mannoia never stops. «In September in Cortona we will close the tour with the hundredth concert in just over a year. But do I already know that after a month I will think: “What are I going to start again? When can we start again? I am used to this nomadic life. And above all I like it: so much I bore the job in a recording studio, I am so happy when I sing in front of the people”. A satisfaction amplified by the fact that I am accompanied by the Symphony Symphony Symphony Mercadante of Altamura directed by Maestro Rocco de Bernardis.
In the concerts shows is as it seems, the short film directed by Anna Foglietta against violence against women made by the “Uno, none, one hundred thousand” foundation.
«We showed him in the two dates at the Terme di Caracalla, where we had large screens. But I am happy that it was projected into the live of very popular artists such as Vasco Rossi, Jovanotti, Marco Mengoni, Achille Lauro, Marracash ».
At the beginning of his career he was stunting on Monica Vitti in the scene of the film Love Mio help me in which Alberto Sordi fills her with beating because it continues to repeat to love another man. What effect does it make them see you again?
«Today it would be unthinkable to turn that scene. And if up to 30-40 years ago it made it laugh, today it makes you think about how only we are only at the beginning of a path. On social media many men write: “Why do you have it with us?”. But this is not a battle against someone. We have to take everyone’s hand to overcome these retailers and listen to the discomfort that not only girls, but many boys also live. If a man receives a refusal from a woman, this is not equivalent to an insult to his virility. And when the woman says no it is no, even if she is dressed in a provocative way or has drunk a few too much glass: love without consent is never love, it is always and only rape ».
For this reason, the finale of her most famous song changes in the concerts, what women do not say, written for her by Enrico Ruggeri. The verse: “We will tell you another yes” has become: “We will tell you again no”.
“I don’t always do it. Sometimes I keep the original version, sometimes I say: “We will tell you again … maybe”. When I change, I often ask the dads present among the audience to teach these things to their male children. Because I believe that the school can do a lot, but the real change passes from the family. If a boy grows with an authoritarian father and an submissive mother, he will certainly not have good examples on which to build his identity as a man ».
In September he will return to TV with simply Fiorella, a report of the concerts of this summer at the Terme di Caracalla, and with an evening that will lead with Carlo Conti from Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples to celebrate Pino Daniele in the tenth anniversary of his disappearance. He was known in the environment for his character. What do you remember?
«Pino angry only when he saw that someone did not respect the music, which was everything for him. It has always been a delight with me, also because I knew how to make him laugh. And in any case it was unique: in Italian music there is a first and after Pino Daniele ».
He was also a friend of another great Italian music that he would have turned 80 this year: Franco Battiato. Is it true that he taught them to paint?
«We both lived in Milan. One day I went to his house, I saw his paintings and I threw there that I would like to learn. Then every morning at half past half he woke me up: “Down from the Brandes!”. I went to him, I took the brush and after a while he exclaimed (imitated the voice of Battiato, ed): “Fiorella, but it’s beautiful!”. Spendingly, but I am grateful to him because I believe that only when you try to paint you really understand the work of the great artists. I remained a slap, but today when I see a painting I remain to fix it to understand the reason for a brushstroke and the plays of light. In short, I taste it much more and I owe this to Franco ».
His latest album is titled to disobey. What does it mean for you?
«Lot in a non -violent way for the ideals in which it is believed, as I did at the time of the school. For today’s guys it is much more difficult. You cannot even win a flag of Palestine that the manganelli arrive ».
