This article is published in number 38 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until 21 September 2021
First seven love songs, and now seven more love songs. First the feeling of traveling in hostile atmospheres (in the last edition of Amici, where he reached the final, a judge told him: “You can’t sing”), now that of having reached space. Nineteen years old, raised in Turin and still little world seen with the eyes, next 8 October Dennis Rizzo aka Deddy releases for Warner Music a deluxe version of his debut album (released in mid-May) entitled Il cielo contraomano su Giove.
A boy made of pen and paper and notes written from an early age, to express himself. Who dreamed of being a hairdresser like his mother Francesca. And that he has written a song called 0 steps even if he has already made it by leaps and bounds, and another one called Words at random even if he never says words at random.
Do you still live in Turin?
“Yes: a little with my mother, a little with my dad.”
What city was your city?
«I started living it a little late, attending the professional hairdressing school. My Turin is mainly a city seen from above, from Monte dei Cappuccini or at the top of the Superga hill, where I go to travel inside myself, with the lights turning on, in search of stimuli to write songs ».
Which are already fourteen, all for a “lei”. What need was there for so many love songs?
“I’m a sentimental person, a lot. Love makes me feel alive ».
Does he take the girls to dinner?
“Of course. I am among those who on the first date strictly show up with a red rose in their hand ».
For many lucky people or for a few?
«For very few, for those who pass on something to me. Opportunities to get to know each other better, to make me feel good and her to feel good ».
How does he behave at the table?
“Very bad. Most of the time I dirty my clothes or spill the wine on the table, all of which happened in front of girls I really liked a lot. In general, even if I am alone at home, I know that I will do some damage ».
On how many fingers of the hand can his loves be counted?
“On two. Including public history, born in Friends, with Rosa ».
Which ended in a not very sentimental way, however: the exit from the program, the success, little desire to commit.
“Inside the house we lived in unreality, isolated from the world. Once outside we both discovered a new life, everything was different from what we expected. We talked and decided it was for the best. But I’m sure I loved her. And I am sure I have been loved ».
Too bad, because dancers are among the most erotic creatures that exist.
“I don’t know, I don’t really rely on looks and stuff like that. First of all we joined mentally, then the rest came. It always happens to me like this ».
And this, in the slightly toxic world of masculinity around, how does it make her feel?
“A little isolated, honestly. I have noticed that men who are looking for romance, who are struck by what touches the heart and not by what touches the eyes, in general tend to be more alone ».
In the years of work at Attilio, the barber shop in Turin, what humanity did you see flow?
“A little bit of everything. We were seventeen hairdressers and it was fun to see how each was chosen by clients who looked like him, in all respects. The younger ones came to me, those who wanted the long tuft, the shades on the skin, the points of light and a certain care for sideburns and neck. A beautiful humanity though, come on. In man, understood as male, I have confidence ».
Does the somewhat androgynous expressiveness of an artist like Damiano of Måneskin, that freedom there, arouses envy?
“Honestly no. And I really don’t see why I should go further, in search of an image that is not mine, when I am already daring so much to simply be myself ».
Tell me about your shyness, which hides really well, by the way.
“I disguise it by being a bit swashbuckling, but then there are things in front of which I completely stop. Even just calling the doctor to make an appointment, just to name one, is difficult for me, I just can’t. “
Why, in a world of extended families, did your parents’ divorce affect you so much?
“I was in elementary school, and there weren’t any families like that in my class. I lived that pain alone, pain that I could not share and that prompted me to take refuge in the first notebook and describe what I was feeling. When you are used to going home and finding mum and dad on a sofa, together even just to watch a movie, and then everything vanishes, it is an immense emptiness that marks you ».
What limits has it left on you?
“Nobody. Rather, the certainty that it will not have to happen to me: if I have a family I will carry it on until the end ».
Photo: Mark Tampone
Dennis Rizzi, aka Deddy, 19 years old. His new album Il cielo contromano is out on Jupiter.
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