Elisa Toffolo: “Let’s not let anyone tell us that this is not our place”

The last, to intervene on the Leone case, without ever directly mentioning what happened during the Match of the Heart, was Elisa. “” You’re pretty, think about singing. Leave writing alone ”. I was fifteen and those words gave me gastritis that lasted for months, “the singer told via Instagram, explaining how a “macho producer” has told her to limit her ambitions. «I should also have left the production, the arrangements, the curiosity for so many instruments alone, because it was all too much.

It would have been enough to smile, “make myself nice”, sing well and “keep me in mind” », wrote Elisa Toffolo, although she admitted that she was not discouraged by so much interference. “For me they were just more fuel, bitter yes, but still good to push the accelerator down even further,” she said of the words addressed to her, then recounting her own redemption.

“At the age of twenty-seven I was in the studio with Tina Turner to record his voice, because I was the producer of the piece I had written for our duet and I took care of the arrangements and also all the technical aspects of the recording. She said to me “I am very proud of you, women like you are changing the world. When I was young, what you are doing today here with me would have been unthinkable “”, the memory of the singer, who via social media wanted to send a message to her followers: “We do not let anyone tell us that this is not ours place”.

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