CIt’s an unwritten rule in the world of music producers: «The man takes the woman to concerts, the woman doesn’t take the man. That is to say, a man’s concert brings screaming little girls, who bring their boyfriends; a female artist rarely does this. Although there have been women who have been successful, they have always been fewer than men. It’s a user issue.”
The quote you read is from one of my favorite artists: Tiziana Donati, aka Tosca. He said these things in a very lucid interview in 2019claiming the right of women to make music. And, I add, to do it without giving in to the rules of showbiz, like certain girls who have come to perform on the San Siro stage.
Concepts that came to mind while witnessing the presentation of Tosca’s new work at the Officina Pasolini, in Romea laboratory in which young talents are cultivated and helped to find their own path without going through talent. Thus, surrounded by a warmth very similar to that of a family, he was born the album Feminaemade up of dazzling unreleased songs and unusual reinterpretations. And many female collaborationsto reiterate that choices can be made without chasing the market, keeping the point and, as Tosca says, “without sterile claims”.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
They are called Carmen Consoli, Ornella Vanoni, Maria Bethânia, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, the “art sisters” with whom Tosca accompanies to tell his inner world. The piece opens the door with poignant grace Springwritten with Pacifico, a year after the death of the artist’s father, who introduced her to music.
But the piece that best translates the intention of the album is one of Vanoni’s “orphans”.: the songs that Ornella asked her colleagues to adopt. For a friend it is a dialogue between two old companions but also a hymn to sisterhood:
“And let us feel close, we have done something / You, that sun of your son, I the song that I sing to you / And perhaps they already fly together against the wind of the future / They have the blood in their veins of two who know how to hold on”.
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