Florence the redhead is ready to return to Italy

florence Welch is ready to return to Italy, «a land that is particularly dear to me because as a child I lived for a while in Florence with my mother, who is a scholar of the Renaissance», as she explained in an interview some time ago. The 36-year-old British musician and her group, i Florence + the Machinewill be among the protagonists of the next edition of the I-Days Milano Coca-Cola 2023: they will perform on Thursday June 22, 2023 at the Snai Racecourse to present the latest album Dance Feverinspired by the cathartic power of dance and released in May 2022. An opportunity for fans to listen to both new pieces and the great classics of the repertoire.

The last Italian passage of the band dates back to August 2019, on the stage of the Expo Area, the location of the Milano Rocks festival. A concert that the ecstatic critics defined as «otherworldly». Florence despite the heat for an hour and a half he sang, jumped, danced, climbed the barriers. She even joked with the audience (who kept throwing flowers at them): «I wrote this song while I was drunk, how do you say here? Drunk? Here, I learned a new word!».

Born in London on August 28, 1986, Florence is so called because her mother, a history teacher, wanted pay homage to the city of Michelangelo And Leonardo. She has always been her mother – who today is her angel, her guardian – of her to transmit her love for the Renaissance culture, inspiring her texts. Her father, on the other hand, gave her a passion for rock, blues, grunge and electronics. In short, music was in little Flo’s destiny. That when she still went to elementary school she sang “at weddings and funerals. Especially at funerals», as she herself said in an interview with Telegraph. Florence’s was not an easy childhood: she suffered from dyslexia, anxiety attacks and dyspraxia (disorder in the coordination of movements and speech). After the sparental separationthen, she was welcomed into her stepfather’s house and there she witnessed a tragedy: the suicide of an aunt suffering from bipolar disorder. What saved her was her passion for music, which allowed her to transform fears and frustrations into creative energy.

Welch began writing songs at 18 with her younger sister’s babysitter: Isabella Summerssix years older than her, who still today in addition to being the keyboardist of Florence + the Machine is her favorite co-author: «The name Florence and the Machine originated from a joke between us. I was composing music with my friend, called Isabella Machine, for whom I was “Florence Robot”. An hour before my first concert, I still didn’t have a name, so I thought, “Alright, I’ll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine”, before realizing that name was too long. So we shortened it.”

Florence’s life changed in 2009, after the overwhelming success of lungs: «I was 23 years oldIt was like leaving home and never coming back. After the affirmation at the Brit Awards I began to fear of fame, I didn’t know how and above all from what to protect myself; a watchful alien. It was not easy to change life, painful and exhilarating». Why “rock doesn’t solve problems, if anything it exacerbates them». And in fact with the success also came the addictions. Everything changed in 2016, when Flo decided to ask for help: «In the end I accepted the fact that I had to talk to people about certain things, instead of doing it through songs where I leaked what I felt indirectly. Why did I do this I was hiding. I had found a way to create some kind of intimacy with the world, but it wasn’t real. With the result that the darker sides remained where they were, and certain things kept repeating themselves. Only when I learned to be sincere did the change come. Which, curiously, has also improved the work».

Today Florence is considered by critics a «extraordinary singer and performer like we haven’t seen in a long time» capable of mixing «pop and Celtic music, mezzo-soprano trills and folk rock, dosed and spectacular electronics». An artist “demanding and perfectionist but capable of great leaps that every evening is told on stage in an ever-changing show”. Now that show Florence is about to bring it to Italy. To let us hear the great classics of the repertoire and to introduce ourselves Dance Feverwhich she defined as “a fairy tale in 14 songs”.

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