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Shalpy: “I live in poverty, ready to be a waiter”

«Right now I am in a condition of extreme poverty, I would do whatever gives me the chance to be myself. ” Giovanni Scialpi asks for help: the Emilian singer-songwriter, through a heartfelt interview a Rolling Stone, revealed its economic difficulties related to theCovid emergency and has launched an appeal to anyone who can offer him a job. «I am also willing to do the waiter».

“I am A lot of things», Said the artist, who has been calling himself since 2012 Shalpy. «I can face many professional fields: I’m not one bad person and I would like to help others as he does a priest in the church or a teacher at school. Unfortunately today the 90% of the people who do my job are neither calculated nor by State nor fromcollective imagination. Maybe you get the idea that the airfield artista».

Shalpy then said he came one step away from Big Brother VipAlfonso Signorini, in front of witnesses, he said that he wanted me from the beginning, but then the engagement jumped for economic issues) and to have spent the last savings for the realization of his latest single, Let It Snow: “Instead of save, in this moment of crisis, I believed in my project“. But for now, no income.

«Despite passing it on to London, a Berlin, a Glasgow and in Greece, with this song maybe I will earn a few hundred euros: on the other hand, downloads pay very little, ”he stressed. “I have risked everything what I had, like a roulette that I made for art. It was a decision of loyalty towards myself, but now I pay a hard price, which doesn’t give me a life jacket to which hold on».

Shalpy – who said he was disappointed about “the Italian concept which does not exalt those who have value, but rather takes people as an example smarter and less true “ – has also published a sort of ad in which he apologizes for his “a bit impetuous»:« I do mea culpa, but I am not a despot. I am a normal person who leads a linear life: at my age I feel the need to settle down, to relax».

“A wish for the future? Hope I can realize soon the next single, because I go in small steps. Music gives an emotion which, if understood, accompanies you throughout your life ».

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