Sardinian

Tell us about your artistic origins.

At home I always sang and shared this passion with my older sister, who is also a singer. She started very early to perform on stages and to make her music known before her in Sardinia and now internationally. I enjoyed following her during her concerts, I was in the backstages or, sometimes, it happened to be one of her choristers. I observed his movements on stage, listened and assimilated, until, then, thanks to the victory of the “Piccolo Festival del Cantautore” competition, I landed during the Abbabbula Festival in the splendid location of Monte D’Accoddi, opening the concert of the Baustelle. From that moment began my journey as a singer-songwriter, a journey that unravels until today, a more mature and concrete path where I try to make my music known.

You are Sardinian: what is Sardinia for you? Is it just an island or something more?

Sardinia is a wonderful, magical place with very strong traditions. I have been living for a few years in Alghero, a fantastic city, but my origins are in the hinterland, precisely a village called Bitti, in the province of Nuoro. I am proud of my Sardinia but I must admit that being born on an island has positive and negative aspects. Sardinia is capable of giving a lot and at the same time taking away a lot. The very fact of being an island penalizes a lot of the possibility of expanding your catchment area, of moving to other places, and consequently of making yourself known. Of course now the internet facilitates this, but it is not quite the same thing. Being able to travel to the rest of the continent and play live is an emotional experience that remains etched in both the player’s and the listener’s mind. In short, insularity places objective limits, also linked to the finances of a musician or a band. From an artistic point of view, I would like to see more communication and collaboration between us Sardinians. I would like healthy and productive cooperation, which in my opinion is difficult to find on the island. For the rest, I believe that Sardinia has a lot to teach about important values that have shaped my character, such as determination. Whatever we decide to do, we carry it out with honesty, firmness, reasonableness and seriousness. I cannot help but appreciate this human side that I have found in very few places.

What is music for you, just the stage, or is it also something else?

Music

is sharing! Within this artistic sharing there are many variables, including a veiled form of help and a request to listen. Music is freedom of expression! The ancestral possibility of telling and stirring consciences while you analyze and let your most hidden soul blossom. It is not just a stage, it is an intrinsic force in the fibers of the human being and the world we inhabit. There can be no world without music, nature itself if we listen to it carefully, it sings and composes melodies since its creation.

You are also a painter! In 2021 you won the Fabrizio De André Prize in the painting section with one of your works, “Donna con burca”!

Yes, I am deeply honored by this award. Drawing, unlike the music that has had others and bases in my life, has always kept me company. I must admit that until some time ago I kept my painting skills a little hidden and I still wonder why I did it. I connect this to the discourse linked to the educational, social and scholastic system of our generation, which somehow admitted, but did not he quite welcomed creativity as a form of intelligence, considering it almost a “vacuous” alternative to more material work. In short, a virtuous form of creativity that could be seen as a hobby but not as a real job. I always drew, even while I was carrying out my studies in biological sciences; apparently it has nothing to do with art, but in reality it was itself the promoter of my artistic skills. I have always studied drawing, I listen better by drawing, I perceive more by drawing, even if since elementary school, they considered it a form of distraction, while for me it was a form of concentration.