DIeci years: 2015-2025. A decade precisely separates the two Sanremo experiences of Serena Brancale, 35 years old. Fieramente Pugliese, from Bari, he was only 25 when he climbed for the first time on the Ariston stage among the new proposals with Float. This year he returns to Sanremo Festival From Big with the song Anema and corewhich represents “an attitude, knowing how to live any type of problem well”.
The artist feels “lucky, because I have a passion that I cultivate every day. I wish everyone to soften the judgments and look inside. On stage with me the soul and the heart. And my heart is you, “he said explaining the title of his song in the race. That first Sanremo, ten years ago, was a watershed in her life: from that moment, as she said, “everything has changed”. But let’s go in order, and we take a step even further back, because Serena Brancale, Even before that experience at Ariston, it had already done several things.
Serena Brancale: who is
Daughter of art – his mother, who disappeared today, was a musician – Serena Brancale since tender age dedicated to the study of classical music, theater and dance. “I started how violinist», He said. «My mother had a music school and wanted to study a classic instrument. I played the violin for the first 5 years in Bari, while my sister played the piano. This influenced my listening because at home I felt Beethoven or Rachmaninov. Everything started from classical music».
His parents, as he explained, “have always been mine supportersthey left me free to do all the experiences I wanted to do ». Among these, the acting also: at 14, in 2003, he starred in the film My brother -in -law by Alessandro Piva, a Buddy Movie with Sergio Rubini focused on the theme of the local underworld.
“I don’t feel like a hundred percent singer, I think more about the idea of show“, he said. “I like to think about how artista concept that is difficult to label. When I present myself I avoid giving a precise definition. Among other things, I started with the theater, then on the radio, then there was the film with Sergio Rubini at 15 years old … all experiences that formed me. If the concerts are beautiful and engaging it is also the result of this work».
Before the age of 18, “I had a very dark voice, so much so that I also attended a speech therapist. It was also complicated just to think that I could make music a job. They had nicknamed me “pine” even, because I had an almost male voice ». Over time, however, “my voice has changed. I started singing in the choirs that my mother directed and here I am. “
The pre -sanremo experiences
He then graduated in Jazz singing from the Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, recorded two records with the project Sound room and, in 2011, founded the Serena Brancquartet, A group that mixes Nu-Soul and Jazz. “Serena Brancale is a little girl who tries every day to have fun with music without thinking that it is work, because she is work, but of a great passion”he said.
On TV, however, tried to participate in X Factorbut the then judge Simona Ventura eliminated him. A setback that, however, did not put an end to his dream. Also because, a few years later, he was taken among the new proposals of the Sanremo Festival.
The singer at the evening-event Kimbo al Blue Note, in September 2024. (Ansa)
Serena Brancale in Sanremo 2015
His song Float He does not arrive at the podium of the new proposals – to win that edition was in fact Giovanni Caccamofollowed by Kutso And Bitter -, but the experience on TV allowed her to make themselves known and appreciated by the general public. Not only that: he was able to begin to collaborate with big names of the Italian music scene, such as Flight, Mario Biondi, Clementino, Willie Peyote And Ghemon.
On the album Float (2015), which takes its name from the single Sanremese, then two other works follow, Life as an artist (2019) e Je so accussì (2022).
A leap in the past: Carlo Conti with the new proposals of the Sanremo Festival 2015. From the left, among them, we also see Giovanni Caccamo, Serena Brancale (to the right of the conductor), Kaligola, Kutso, Enrico Nigiotti, Rakele, Amara and Chanty
Salted codhis hit
Released the third album in 2022 and only the following year, in 2023, it was released with the rhythmic Salted cod. And the world of music does not seem to be able to do without her anymore. “I’m grateful to that song, […] born as a game, a experiment. I have always used dialect and swing, then I also discovered the electronic battery and the Baile funk, the Brazilian funk, which is then the rhythm of Salted cod».
The song «is a summary of my background. The moment when I rush the swear words, for example, comes from my uncle. He had a pump of petrol and as a small memory was very good at telling her one after another, in sequence. While Latin music is of my mother, who was Brazilian and had a music school. Even the sunny being and playing with the body derives from her ».
Salted cod “was one of the most successful experiments. I have been dealing with music for many years but an explosion of this reach was a surprise for me. Today I am the southern girl that everyone knows, I like it when people recognize me on the street, I’m honored by it ».
Serena Brancale in 2024. (Getty Images)
The song tells “a common and nice story: the country woman with an apron, which cooks. Everyone has it. Then there is the Bari dialect, which at times looks like Brazilian, gives an international cut and sounds good. It’s a Tiktok sound, I discovered it there ». He started by train to write «This nursery rhyme. I later met Dropkick on Instagram. […]. After two days, although we did not know well, we took an appointment to do Salted cod By car ».
Success
With Salted cod He knows success. But if it happened to her “at twenty years, all together, I would have gone mad in front of so many new followers, so many attention, to brands gifts. I would have lived with the fear that from one day to the next it could end». Today, however, «I have wide shoulders, I know that all this I built it a little at a time. And if even tomorrow he no longer goes so well, However, I will have a lot of this period».
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