S.and with “True and free, courageous and furious», The title of the album released about a year ago, practically summarized her many ways of being a woman in 10 songs, at the Ligabue concert in Campovolo last Saturday, Loredana Berté screamed the one that matters most to her. The courage to react to violence against women.
Loredana Berté: “I’ve stopped keeping silent”
Invited by the musician to the evening for inaugurate the new Arena di Campovoloin his Reggio Emilia, and also celebrating 30 years of career, together they sang the song “I stopped being silent”, Released on 5 November 2021 and written by Correggio’s rocker for her.
Loredana Berté on the stage of the Sanremo 2021 Festival at the Ariston Theater
The courage of women to report the violence suffered
A song, through which he wanted to reiterate once again as is courageous to denounce the violence suffered by women.
Just as pointed out by the artist before starting to sing: “It is a song against violence against womenwhether it is psychological, mental or physical “, adding, to be clearer, that he has undergone all 3 of them. And precisely because”every 6 hours there is a man killing a woman, now I have stopped keeping silent“.
Loredana Berté, a known experience
In an intense interview given to the Corriere, Loredana had told how, listening to the song received from Ligabue, she found herself fully in those words.
«’I stopped being silent’ is a poignant pearl that Ligabue gave me, where we talk about violence» he said. «A song written by a man who brought out an unexpected sensitivity. When I sang it I was crying because I feel it in a personal way: I have an experience behind me that happened to me when I was 16 and I still bear the signs of that violence because we never stop wearing them ».
The message: “Report at the first slap”
Ligabue, giving the song to Loredana, had told her that “to stop being silent it takes courage and you Loredana have never lacked courage“. A beautiful message to which the singer replied as only she is capable of doing: «Of course I have courage.
Even if society makes you ashamed and then you report years later like I did. Before I was ashamed and instead that son of p … who raped and beaten me should have been ashamed. My message is: report immediately, at the first slap“.
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