Thirteen Pietro: Gianni Morandi’s son tells of his darkest moment, between self -harm and psychotropic drugs

Is called Thirteen Peteris a rapper, and has just come out with his new album, Don’t look down. His name of art owes him half to his best friends (thirteen, apparently) and for the other half of mom and dad, who baptized him Peter. Morandi, of surname. Because thirteen Pietro is The son of one of the most famous Italian singers ever, Gianni Morandi, And his Anna, the one who takes the photos to put on Facebook.

Already some time ago, at the time of the release of the individual Big Panorama (in whose video dad Gianni made a small appearance) Thirteen Pietro had told his relationship that is not always easy with his father, telling that bar written on the subject. “I say” I have only been living for ten years, since I had two hair and I am the son of Gianni. And I don’t know why I suffered from it. ” On the other hand, that’s why I went to the house just adult: I wanted to be a rapper, I didn’t want to have to deal with, my friends would have made fun of me. In the video I am on the hospital bed, in fact, that I deal with my demons and one of these is my father. Which for a male child is a classic. With this bar, therefore, I free myself from another nice boulder I had inside. I had to speak, even by playing, of this situation that I could not manage, “he had told.

In fact, it is not always easy to do the part of the son of art, in Hollywood as here with us. Of course, on the one hand some roads are certainly more downhill than uphill, but on the other the comparison with dad, especially if you are part of as different worlds such as rap and pop, is always there lurking to warn you about all the way to do. “We are two different worlds and therefore it is difficult to have communications with people who have lived another era”confirms thirteen Peter when he is asked if and how he spoke with his father of the dark period he has lived and that tells in Don’t look down. The period in which he moved from Bologna to Milan, as he tells in a long interview a The messenger, And in the big city it has been lost. «There you have to be cool at all costs, follow the fashions, always be seen. Trivially, you can’t take a year to make a record. ” And he, perhaps, at that cool moment he was not. The girl he had moved with if he went away, and perhaps the rhythms imposed for a record did not respect his inspiration. So the Burn Out arrived. The “tilt”, as he defines it. “I started having self -injurious behavior, I hurt myself using substances.” Psychotropic drugs, he says. Up to a hospitalization for health reasons (of which Pietro does not want to speak) who made him open his eyes on what was going on, helping him to get out of the dark.

All this unbeknownst to his family (who discovered these difficulties of his interview, seems) and dad Gianni, with whom the relationship is not always easy but, as Pietro himself admits, is something that perhaps happens to all fathers with all the children. Acute by that competition that can be there between a father who entered the history of Italian music and a son who is trying, in the same place, to find his place. «The fact of having him as a father is a fortune, but at the same time represents a big shadow from which it is difficult to go out. It’s everywhere ».