Federico Rossi: “In love with little things”

Get on the track, get on board, make sure that the meter reaches maximum speed, leaving the past behind. This is the image that Federico Rossi gives back to his fans thanks to the video clip of Le Mans, his new single which, despite scents of summer, retains the bitter aftertaste of melancholy and nostalgia that has always been part of him. The fault of a long relationship – the one with Paola Di Benedetto – which ended a year ago; of a new solo path in which he is proving to have an artistic identity beyond the project of Benji and Fede that has committed him for 10 years of his life, and of a new confidence in himself and in his abilities, the result of the ups and downs that life has given him and that have transformed him into what he is today.

“I’ve always been sympathetic to the racing world, but I’ve never been a fan. My father has always been passionate about engines and, over time, I have joined the pieces to build a puzzle that, after all, has always been part of me “, says Federico Rossi on the phone. “Le Mans is a metaphor of my current condition, a warning to improve myself more and more “, he insists choosing, despite being just 28, the words with great care and great wisdom, dismantling the cliché that sees today’s pop stars unable to articulate a deep thought It is complete. One thing that comes more than natural to Federico Rossi.

How does she feel?
«Very happy to have started to go on stage again and to relive those emotions that had been dormant for a while and that I couldn’t wait to savor».

His new single talks about a race and a track: what is the destination?
“There is not. The metaphor is to move towards an ever greater awareness, to go towards the things that I have been precluded from for a long time due to lack of experience, for my baggage, or for reasons that have not allowed me to go in depth. In this process, the past changes and serves as a lever to focus on the search for an integrity that perhaps we will never quite find ».

What has this baggage enriched over the years?
«Of a security that was previously more veiled. The more I can manage my insecurity, the more I understand that I am growing. Then, of course, there is the passion that has arisen since I started this journey alone, walking with my legs. I’ve always been viscerally grateful to music because I couldn’t express myself in any other way than by singing. When I started alone, I make music for myself, to experiment, or even just to let off steam, to free myself ».

For the launch of Le Mans, on Instagram wrote that he wanted to reach a new speed on this lap. What is speed for you?
“The ability to allow ourselves to flow what we feel we have inside. The human being tends to sabotage himself, but now I would like to be able to limit this drive and let myself go, accepting what I cannot change ».

Even if you travel fast, at some point you have to stop. Are you afraid of any delays that may occur along the way?
«The racing cars stop in the pits to restart stronger. The important thing is not to blame yourself when it happens, because it is part of the game ».

Is it also part of the game to have made a summer hit with a melancholy aura that it masked very well?
«It is the mirror of my personality: I have always had this veil of melancholy despite trying to give me energy. I think that, in the end, the important thing is to live everything with a hopeful and positive key, because life is like this “.

In your case, can melancholy be an engine for creativity?
«Generally I am able to analyze and metabolize my melancholy states as they pass. When I’m in it I write, but I don’t get over them ».

What helps you overcome them?
«Remind me of the steps I took when I was down and that allowed me to grow and mature. Being close to my old friends, for example, is invaluable: having an evening with them takes the pressure off me and helps me to get to know myself better “.

Was he melancholy even as a child?
“I’ve always tried to motivate myself and pat myself on the back, but melancholy and a nostalgia for some things have always hidden in me. I look sunny, but that’s not the meaning I would give to my personality. I managed to feel better when I reached a set-up capable of making me see things more clearly ».

When did this structure develop?
“When I separated from Ben. There I perceived the possibility of getting involved and discovering many things about myself. It is an ongoing thing: everything is needed in a relationship, regardless of how it ends ».

Meanwhile, there are rumors that speak of your return together …
“We separated because we wanted to tell things. The articles came out because his relationship ended and he returned to Italy. We want to continue like this ».

Also because you have a great relationship.
“Ten years together is a long time. We started doing this shoulder to shoulder journey, and it is normal for a relationship like this to be maintained. He lived far away for 2 years, and it is obvious that we did not see each other as before, but we will always be linked by something special ».

He got on this very young carousel: was there a moment in these 10 years when you felt you gave up something for your career?
“I’m sorry I didn’t have time to digest some things in life. On the other hand, what I was doing was the best medicine to mediate with the losses and difficulties of life: my work helped me to shift my attention to something that gave me an incomparable vital energy ».

In these 10 years he has attracted, a bit like Blanco, various female attentions: not only from the girls, but from their mothers.
“(He laughs, ed). A few mothers followed us over time. I have never minded you, it’s nice to feel this energy from the other sex. “

Do you still get the same attention?
«My solo adventure has just begun: I’m warming up the engines, I want to start again, and I hope it can bring me a good interaction. For now I feel a lot of love, and it’s good for me. It is an important exchange of empathy ».

An empathy that, at the beginning, was linked to the dream of playing football, correct?
«I played football for 14 years, but since I was a child, singing was my outlet. The neighbors complained because I was always singing: early in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. Speaking with my parents I understood that I had to insist, so I did 2 years of singing school. From there it all started ».

What songs did he sing?
“I will leave with you, Losing love, the songs of the Nomads. Italian music from the seventies, eighties and nineties that my father made me hear. I remember that in the mountains, in front of the fireplace, I listened to these songs and sang them with this increasingly amplified resonance hood ».

Having also enrolled in the singing school, do you think your dreams have come true?
“Most of them do. Always being in this very pleasant blender, every now and then you ask yourself: “I did this, but would I have thought about it before?”. When you start, you find it hard to realize what you are doing ».

What is left out of the fulfilled dreams?
“The dream of every person, regardless of how you can get there, is to find great integrity towards yourself, a serenity that can be given by many components that make you perceive life more fully, making you savor the little things “.

An integrity that is acquired with the passing of time: am I wrong or will he be 30 in 2 years?
“Are you kidding? Wasn’t I 25? (laughsed) “.

Afraid of the passing of time?
“It hurts a little, but I say it laughing.”

The important thing is the age that one feels.
«As an experience I feel the years I have, while at the level of spirituality and vitality I feel 20. Many have happened to me, but the road will still be very long».

The risk of long roads is that, from time to time, there are deviations. Do you mind the questions that ask you about the gossip?
“I don’t mind, in the end the things that grab attention are those.”

Can we say that, after all, he is a romantic?
“A little long. Love is a great engine: on this journey I wrote many songs about this, they are a way to look inside and throw out what you feel ».

Today what or who is he in love with?
«When I manage to be in possession of my faculties, when I manage to let myself go totally, and I feel I have no impediments that can block me in expressing myself. I’m in love with the little things, like seeing me with friends in the evening to talk about my day ».

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