The British singer-songwriter by the prisoners with the instrument made with the remains of the “boats of hope”
After the promise made to Father Antonio Loffredo, the former parish priest of the Basilica of the Rione Sanità, Sting will be at Naples to play in front of the inmates of the prison of Secondigliano. In short, not an official event with a top secret agenda, because it is a noble cause.
Sting in Secondigliano prison (Naples)
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Sting, 71-year-old British singer-songwriter who often spends more or less long periods on his estate in Tuscany, confirms his presence at the Secondigliano prison in Naples. It’s about a promise made at the time to the former parish priest of the Basilica of the Rione SanitàFather Antonio Loffredo, who once at dinner told him about the initiatives of the San Gennaro Foundation. On that occasion, the priest spoke to the singer-songwriter – over 100 million records sold in his career – also about the wood laboratory from which the violins with remains of boats. This thrilled Sting so much that he promised an event for a noble cause in which he would play a “supportive” instrument.
The guitar from the migrants’ boats
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In Naples, complete with a wife Trudie Styler in tow, Sting will receive a guitar as a gift made by the inmates of Secondigliano who participate in the Metamorphosis project, of the non-profit organization Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti. It is a particular musical instrument, made with the wood recovered from the boats wrecked in Lampedusa. A material, therefore, that comes from those journeys of hope that unfortunately often end in tragedy.
The new version of Fragile
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The British singer-songwriter will play, among other things, a new version of his 1998 hit for the inmates of the Naples prison Fragile. It is one of the singles from his second solo album, Nothing Like the Sunwhich Sting wrote to remember Ben Linderthe American civil engineer killed by the Contras, the counterrevolutionaries of the Nicaraguafor the mere fact of being at work on a hydroelectric project in that country. The piece has been revisited with guitar and four strings (already recorded in the studio in Milan) and will be part of a documentary film entitled Can I come in? An ode to Naples: “I am grateful to Father Antonio for introducing us to the work and team of Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori. I believe that the tools created by the Foundation are a wonderful transformation of the pain of so manyrepresent the beauty and dignity inherent in all human beings”, the words of Sting a The Republic.
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