OReighty-three years is just a number for Orietta Berti. The singer, who celebrated her birthday last June 1st, she has no intention of retiring from the scene, certain that she still has a lot to give to music and her fans. It was she who confirmed this intention, underlining how she gets more tired when she is engaged in things that for many equate to relaxation.
Orietta Berti: at 83 years old I am not abandoning the stage
«Stop me? For goodness sake, me I get more tired if I’m at home, with flowers to water every day, cats to take care of”, he said during an interview withHandle, «As long as I have a voice and energy I will carry on. For me work is life. Actually, every now and then it is my collaborators who put the brakes on all the ideas that I would like to put into practice».
To one thing, however, he said no: «To a TV special about me. I don’t feel like doing something just to sing the songs of the past.” The past was exceptional, then, but it is something in which the artist does not want to wallow. Self-celebrations and budgets don’t seem to interest her.
Orietta Berti has just turned 83 and has no intention of retiring. (IPA)
The single QCPF together with Il Rosso and Iaem, created by AI
The singer, as she has often demonstrated in recent years, is someone who he still knows how to get involved. The last example is the single QCPF, made together with The RedTwitch streamer (stage name of Matteo Baini), and Iaem, a virtual singer created with artificial intelligence. Berti likes AI: «For us artists it has become a fundamental tool”he continued speaking with theHandle«For me it is useful when I have to learn a new piece: I use it in auditions with my key, instead of that of the male authors. Instead Iaem is unparalleled, very in tune.
And with her I also learned to breathe better. To those who say it takes away work, I reply that it’s not true: technicians are always needed to make it work. Then it’s like fire: pIt can be used like this, as a family focal point, or to start devastating fires if used in wars.”
The collaboration with young artists, which relaunched her on the music scene
The meeting with Il Rosso, the singer revealed, is thanks to Fabio Rovazzi, with whom in 2025 she published Cabaret and in 2023 The Italian discovery successful songs. «I proposed three songs to him and he chose this one. It will end in album of unreleased songs which will be released in December for the 60th anniversary of his career. I’m working on it and there will definitely be other feats. Many young people propose themselves, let’s see. Things change quickly in today’s discography.”
And it is precisely thanks to the collaboration with young artists that Orietta Berti was also discovered by the new generations. In addition to Rovazzi, he has collaborated with Fedez and Achille Lauro, met at Sanremo 2021. Hence, the song Thousand, summer tournament that year. Retreating is truly out of the question, as also reiterated at The newspaper: «I’ll do like Ornella Vanoni, like Charles Aznavour, I’m going forward as long as I stand”.