Tag Archives: Italian singer-songwriter
Che Il Mediterraneo Sia Posted by Geoff on Sep 8, 2017
The Mediterranean has always been a melting pot of diverse cultures, a meeting of minds and traditions, a conduit between the continents of Africa and Europe. Eugenio Bennato’s Che il Mediterraneo Sia is a wonderful uplifting song that reminds us of our mixed roots and that tutto il mondo è paese (human beings are the…
I Don’t Feel Italian Posted by Geoff on Jan 25, 2016
… well I’m not! By birth I’m English, but I don’t feel English either, I never really did. However, one thing that I do remember about my English upbringing was the sense of patriotism that we had instilled in us from quite an early age. Maybe that’s changed now, I really wouldn’t know as I’ve…
Genova – Via del Campo Posted by Serena on Apr 5, 2013
Following our recent trip to Genova, which we described in our last blog, I felt inspired to listen to some music by Genova’s most famous singer songwriter, Fabrizio De Andrè. The name of the song Via del Campo is taken from an old cobbled street in the Genova’s historical centre, not far from il Porto…
Mulattiera di Mare Posted by Serena on Sep 27, 2012
Occasionally it’s fun to find examples of one of the many dialects which make Italy so linguistically rich, and to show the difference between dialect and ‘official’ Italian. Today I’ve chosen Fabrizio de Andrè’s beautiful song Creuza de mä, written in the Genoese dialect (from Genova). Fabrizio de Andrè (Genova 1940-1999) was a very important…