Antonella Ruggiero: “Free and without regrets”

The second (or third) life of Antonella Ruggiero it’s all in this sentence: «What has changed with the lockdown? For those who loved all the possible attention, everything. For those who, on the other hand, have never loved worldliness almost nothing. What I did before, I do now. The mind continues to travel through its streets, and so does art and music ».

Powerful voice of Matia Bazar, he left the group in 1989, at their most successful moment, to become a soloist seven years later. Since then, Antonella Ruggiero, 68, has explored all the genres that have crossed her mind: sacred music, ethnic, jazz, pop, folk, classics.

«There is nothing I would not do again, I have no regrets»He says.

His latest work he decided to call him – and not by chance – Empathy (“Either you have it from birth, or you don’t have it”): a record that contains sacred songs but also, surprisingly, one of the most beautiful songs of Matia Bazar, White horse. He recorded it last February, inside the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua: “The last concert, dedicated to the world of volunteering, which I held before the epidemic, and which today takes on an even stronger meaning” .

In the Basilica of Padua she went back to singing even after, without an audience: “Suggestivo, singing without an audience is even more intense. I found it a suspended mode. On the other hand, during a concert I concentrate so much that it is as if I closed myself in a bubble. And this is also what we have all had to learn in this last period: to become introspective».

Travel: «It is strange to think that today it is no longer possible to take and leave. It is as if we have found ourselves in front of some kind of lesson. It is suggestive not to be able to do what we want. From the “no” that we receive today everyone will have to draw something ». How will we be? “Difficult. You have to let everything decant and see what will become of us “.

And the music? “Here too, a question mark. I worry about all those who work behind the scenes, shows have not happened for months now, many have rightly thought of radically changing their job. Music, on the other hand, is always linked to current events, to what one experiences. It has always served to observe the world and people ».

What do you see from your window today? «I pass from the remote countryside of Lombardy, the one without factories, to a city like Berlin, a city unique in the world. It was razed to the ground but started up again creating art. The world is a contradiction “

“Merry Christmas weird.”

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