Vasco Rossi remembers father Carlino: “His death, my first great pain”

Vasco Rossi he chose the date of what would have been his ninety-eighth birthday to reflect on his father, Carlino, whose death marked “my first great pain”. “I wasn’t ready,” he admitted. “He died in 1979, of an illness, he was 56 years old. It was like falling to the ground and getting up again, suddenly an adult“. Vasco Rossi, his words, accompanied them with a photo out of focus, in black and white. Child, laying between the legs of his parents. “Today is Papa Carlino’s birthday,” he wrote.

“He was one of few words, he carried the indelible marks of his imprisonment in Germany, but he never talked about it with us at homeContinued the rocker, describing the depth of the bond with the father figure.

«My family was modest, it was also hard to finish the month, but I never lacked anything, the love I breathed in the air was enough for me. My dad: it was he who accompanied me to the various events of the Golden Nightingale to which I had to go as the winner and where I performed on stage as the “star”. The life of a star lasted a year, then from stars to stables, I found myself in the city, in Modena, in a college of priests! And there the story vanished and my dreams were shattered », said the singer, without forgetting the character differences with his father, Carlino. “My father was a truck driver, he had his own truck, and he traveled around Italy for pickups and deliveries. His philosophy on the truck was to maintain a constant speed to get straight to the destination in peace and safety. On the other hand, I obviously liked to push it, the accelerator. I started with the one for my first car, he gave it to me, Papa Carlino », Vasco Rossi closed.