Jovanotti remembers his mother purple on the day he would have turned 90: “Hello mom, wherever you are”

On the day when The purple mother would have turned 90Jovanotti, aka Lorenzo Cherubini, chose an intimate memory to celebrate it. On Instagram he published two photographs that portray his daughter Teresa together with his grandmother, on one of the many afternoons spent together.

“These two photos are beautiful (which I don’t remember if I took me in my phase black and white film or @fravaliani, but it doesn’t matter)”, writes the singer, then adding: “Today my mom, the” purple grandmother “would have turned 90, and here it is with @terrywho_corignions in one of those days that we went to see it and She taught her something, she told her some history of the times gone or her children as children who combined all the colorsand Teresa loved to listen to her. “

And again, says Jovanotti, grandmother Viola «He loved stories, he was a reader of quality novels, he loved great cinema (Away with the wind his favorite) and and turn was a good narrator of anecdotes and funny things ».

But, in addition to the serene moments with the family, Jovanotti’s mother he met the depressionas he told in the past. The greatest pain came with the death of Umberto, Jovanotti’s older brother, who passed away in 2007 at only 46 years old. It was then that Viola’s suffering became acute. “When my brother died to my mother they dried the tear bags“, He explained,” So she was unable to cry, and for the rest of life she had to use a eye drop because she could no longer produce tears. Because they would probably have been too many ». In that inconsolable void, the son sought words, gestures, music for her. “I managed to make her happy, even to laugh. I noticed in her sadness that they formed a lot».

In his post, Jovanotti greets grandmother Viola wishing her to celebrate with his father Mario, who died in 2015, and with Umberto: “Hello mom wherever you are a nice party, I know who you are with, and I know you are happy”.