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Peppino Di Capri: “You have to get up to speed to get to success”

From the studies of Summer live on Rai Uno, Peppino Di Capri sends a warning to young people: “We need to get up to speed”. In Roberta Capua’s living room, the singer talked about his private life and her career, which has been going smoothly since 1956.

«I was doing the piano bar», Di Capri said, recalling his early years, before his success:« And the piano bar gives an edge: it was the mess, which is always needed. You have to go through the ranks before reaching success “, he cautioned.

Today, Peppino Di Capri, 83 years old, two Sanremo wonand excerpts – from Champagne to Roberta – which undoubtedly seem to the kids of today dated but that they will equally undoubtedly have heard hum more than once in their young lives, he claims to have a ‘grandfather’s career’. To the grandchildren – children of Edward And Dario Faiellagrants a bit of everything, he says: “I am a quiet grandfatherit’s the parents who hate me a little. “

Instead, it grants less to older kids. He does not preach, nor does he claim that young people are lazy (as the recent narration wants a little too often), but he tells how long and tortuous was the road that even led him to play with the Beatles: the exhibition at just four years old, immediately after the war, in front of the American troops stationed in Capri; the piano lessons “With a very strict German teacher”; the evenings in the nightclub, which routed him to pop; the first appearances in the baby girl television; the first contract with a record company Milanese.

Until the success (planetarium) of the 60s and the invitation to open concerts by Fab Four of Liverpool: “When you have such a strong character, they usually don’t make you sing,” he recalled on Raiuno: “Fortunately, I succeeded.” And she continues to do so.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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