We all know Alice has always made anti commercial choices in her career and has made her fans to wait for new releases for years - the new album has been postponed this time already three years but will finally be released this September, recently finally confirmed by herself. As we know there are songs written by Franco Battiato and Tiziano Ferro and songs written by herself, too. In a recent interview with Corriere della sera's Io Donna she tells several interesting points about her life:
In 1982 Capital records in the USA offered her to promote Per Elisa worldwide after her success in Italy and Europe with Spanish and English versions, PR tour of three years. She asked herself if that's what she wanted, success, living in a suitcase, no private life? "I hardly managed the life I was leading already so I said no" she tells. "It's not like I want to flaunt it, this is the first time I talk about this. I didn't choose this work for success. I have always lived among music; my dad played, my sister also. My mom had a beautiful voice. I sung for the first time when I was 15 months old, in a church at Christmas. I had an instinct."
She sung in the public at the age of seven, in San Marino in Festival dei Ragazzi presented by Mago Zurli, her idol. She tormented her parents until they took her there. Singing and piano lessons followed and in 1971 she won Castrocaro at the age of 17. She started also getting proposals for part in movies and once again she said no. "I didn't know what I wanted but I knew exactly what I didn't want" she tells. After two albums and a few singles, one Sanremo without success she took a short break until she met her future producer Angelo Carrara and through him both Franco Battiato and her partner Francesco Messina. Another turning point meeting with Henri Thomasson, follower of Gurdijeff, an Armenian philosopher and mysticism, my spiritual master.
Alice describes her today as imperfect and joyful. One would say the opposite at least in her work but when she has no deadlines she could work on the songs to infinity, no wonder this new album has been postponed three years! Otherwise she's very normal: "I wake up early in the morning, open the windows and breath the fresh air, I live among the green in Udine. Then I take care of our eight cats and the household. In the afternoon I work. Cooking is not a priority, eating either. Francesco (Messina) cooks much better than I do!"
In conclusion she tells that if she needs to go from A to B she ends in C. "Also Sanremo was a C. But can I complain? No. I only can thank life. That sometimes in its imperfection is perfect."
July 5, 2012 she will be present at the La Milanesiama in Teatro Dal Verme, July 29 in Pride Village in Padova, July 30 in Folkfest Festival in Spilinbergo (PN)
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