C.fifty years. Time to take stock. Or maybe not. After all, the 50 years of today are no longer what they used to be. The plastic demonstration of this diversity of the passing of time is embodied by Alessandro Aleotti, known by all as J-Ax, who today is at the turning point of his 50 years. Singer, author, TV personality, husband, dad and “Uncle” for all his fansJ-Ax has gone from being a bullied teenager to being a protagonist of our time. He did it by putting in verseoutspoken, rapping (first) and singing (then), his way of looking at the world.
J-Ax, from a bullied teenager to a character loved by all
Alessandro Aleotti did not always have the cheek of J-Ax. There was a moment in his life when Alexander was only one shy kid and, as he told himself in You must diebullied.
“I know how it feels to be persecuted and harassed every day and I want in every way to support and help the kids who are going through what I have lived,” he said on his social networks in November 2017 on the occasion of the release of the single.
Music gave Alessandro the strength to change his life until he became a beloved character. Today he is a singer-songwriter, a television personality and with the rapper Pedar and the journalist and author Matteo Lenardon, the conductor of “Don’t open that Podcast“.
J-Ax, alias of Alessandro Aleotti, turns 50 (Photo Press Office)
J-Ax or Joker A (le) x
Grew up between the Milanese district of Corvetto, the hamlet of San Giuliano Milanese, Sesto Ulteriano and Cologno Monzese, at the end of the 1980s he chose the stage name of J-Ax. “The meaning is Joker A (le) x: Joker is my favorite” villain “,” he explains in the biography published on his website.
In 1990 he founded Articolo 31 with Dj Jad. Four years later, when he is 22, everyone sings his Hey Mariaa hymn to marijuana for which J-Ax has always been committed. In 2006 he began his solo journey which leads him to collaborate – or, as they say in the jargon, to feature – with many artists, not necessarily in the rap scene. With Pino Daniele, for example, he records The sun inside me And Bitter years.
“The Voice of Italy” and television fame
To give an intergenerational push to J-Ax was, however, The Voice of Italy. The Milanese rapper took a seat in the red chair of the coaches of the Italian version of the talent show in the second edition alongside Raffaella Carrà, Piero Pelù and Noemi. Ready joke, perfectly at ease in front of the camera, J-Ax finds in Sister Cristina Scuccia who, unexpectedly chooses him as coach, the perfect competitor to lead to victory. Sister Cristina conquers social networks and musical showcases all over the world and J-Ax a transversal notoriety.
J-Ax to “The Voice of Italy” – Getty Images
The flop of “Sorci Verdi” and “All together now”
In the wake of the success of The Voice of Italythen, the singer of Ostia Lido he experimented as an author and TV presenter debuting on Rai2 with the late show Green mice. The program, however, does not break through and Ax is self-critical. «She was a Caporetto. After setting up the machine, convinced that I could do something new, I realized that it was impossible. I was not very clear about the mechanisms of the small screen and that the right to satire does not exist because everyone is suing everyone. As a main character, I will no longer be at the forefront, unless it is a game show, ”he later admitted. On television he returned as the artistic director of Friends and next to Michelle Hunziker in All Together Now on Channel 5.
With Maria De Filippi during an episode of “Green Sorci”
Friendship with Fedez and “Communists with Rolex”
One of the guests of Green mice was Fedez. With him J-Ax, in addition to having founded the Newtopia record company in 2013, was the protagonist of the success of Communists with Rolex, crossover between rap and pop. That album, however, was the beginning of the end of the friendship between the two which ended the day after the concert-event that brought 79,500 spectators to San Siro on 1 June 2018. After years of frost, the two artists have recently reconciled. The occasion for the clarification, postponed for years, was Fedez’s disease. At the end of June the two returned on the same stage on the occasion of LoveMi, charity concert organized in favor of Tog – Together to go, for children suffering from complex neurological diseases. Fedez explained: “We spoke on the phone for 6 hours, we said everything we had to”.
J-Ax, the excesses set aside for love
But the success didn’t make J-Ax’s life any easier. In her 50 years, of which nothing would change, there have been “more mistakes and failures than her right choices,” as she told Barbara Visentin that she interviewed him for Corriere on the eve of her birthday. The rapper, as usual, does not hide the truth and talks about “drugs” and alcohol that he considers the father of addictions. “I haven’t been drinking or smoking today for yearsHe admits.
It was to give him new motivation Elaina Coker, an American model who he married in 2007 and who 10 years later made him become Nicolas’s father, who is now 5 years old, born with assisted fertilization. He dedicated to the little one All his mother, another human being with the ability to change his “mood just by smiling”. Not a little!
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