S‘titled as one of his most beautiful and famous songs: You are in the soul is the film based on the story of Gianna Nannini, produced by Indiana Production and directed by Cinzia TH Torrini, will come up Netflix on May 2.
You are in the soul: the life of Gianna NanniniI on Netflix
In the role of the symbolic singer of female rock there is the actress Letizia Toni, which will “narrate” the first 30 years of the artist’s life, from childhood to his debut in music up to his consecration as a star loved by the public. The cast of the film also includes presenter Andrea Delogu who plays a young woman Mara Maionchiher producer together with Claudio Fabi in the first part of her career. You are in the soul is taken from My Cocksthe artist’s autobiography published in 2016.
The career of Gianna Nannini, who he will turn 70 on June 14th, was a crescendo of successes, despite family conflicts (her parents were important confectionery manufacturers). As stated in her official biography, Gianna ran away from home at 18 to pursue music and moves to Milan without the financial support of his parents.
It comes with two fewer phalanges of the left handan accident in her father’s pastry shops which she described like this: «I let out a terrible scream, the rock voice came from there. At the Conservatory you pass the exam with two small plastic prostheses and fake nails. The insurance paid two million. I paid for my escape to Milan.”
Letizia Toni as Gianna Nannini in “Sei nell’anima”. (Netflix)
In the United States he finds his inspiration and the path of transgression
Mara Maionchi senses her talent and writing as the female voice of the group Flora Fauna Cemento, Claudio Fabi produces her first album in 1975 Gianna Nannini. Androgynous and feisty, she heads to the United States to study rock and composed one of his first big hits, the single America, a metaphor for masturbation. On the album cover California there is the Statue of Liberty with a vibrator in her hand.
The rest is a crescendo of successes, from Latin lover of 1982 in which Annie Lennox also collaborated Photoromance of 1984: Gianna conquers Italy but above all Germany and Europe, where her concerts are always sold out. Other unique hits were released in the following years, from Perfume to Beautiful and impossible to Males. With An Italian summerthe anthem of the Italia 90 World Cup sung together with Edoardo Bennato, begins important collaborations: he signs with Jovanotti Radio loudin Hamburg he sings songs by Bertold Brecht with Sting.
Letizia Toni as Gianna Nannini in “Sei nell’anima”. (Netflix)
For the cinema Nannini writes the soundtrack for Momo conquering time (which earned her the Nastro D’Argento in 2002) and in 2006 the song You are in the soul ago is among the songs in Giovanni Veronesi’s film Manual of Love 2: the director also wants her as an actress in 2010 Parents & Children: Shake well before use.
Late motherhood, life in London with Penelope and his wife Carla
Extremely committed to humanitarian and social causes, pacifist and always on the front line against gender violence, Gianna Nannini is always very reserved about her private life. But her late motherhood, at 54 years old, made a lot of news: in 2010 she gave birth to her daughter Penelope, to whom he dedicated the album Io e te. “I called it that because I waited a long time for it,” she declared. Gianna lives together with Penelope and his wife Carla, with her for 40 years, in London, «a city where my daughter can grow up without preconceptions». And where he was able to unite civilly with Carla.
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