THELarge kidneys is about to return. His new album will be released on November 14th, Gold and pink, which comes six years later Great. Not a few for a music that runs fast today and that replicates consolidated mechanisms that are also easy to find in other fields, from fashion to daily habits. The singer, however, he wanted to take his time, and slow down, to give life to music that truly represented her and that it wasn’t just tied to having to say something.
Irene Grandi starts again from Gold and pink
«There are moments in which to expose yourself, to be seen; and others to retreat into, so we can create. Now I’m coming back to the light”the singer said during an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining the end of a period of «artistic darkness». Physiological and necessary stops, because «music takes time» and today we often come across improvised professionals, as in any workplace.
She, however, is not there to follow the wave, and prefers to work as she has always done so as not to sacrifice the quality of the work, something to which in the past – she underlines – there was more attention. The thing you miss most? «The sense of originality», when the novelties were perceived as truly such: «Level novelties. And which partly made up a scene: today I see Sanremo and I find artists like this, out of nowhere; I don’t have an idea of movement.”
Irene Grandi in concert in Milan last summer (Stefania D’Alessandro/Getty Images)
Escape from relationships
Irene Grandi also felt the need to stop for a while due to a youth lived professionally to the fullest and which also led her to put family life aside a little. «For a long time I concentrated only on my work, personal research remained a bit aside, I didn’t love myself and I often got into relationships in which, since I didn’t know myself well enough, I lost myself. And I ran away. Now I practice yoga, it’s helping me a lot and I’ve learned to love myself. I’m not in love and I’m not looking for a relationship at all costs. If it arrives, amen. My search for adventures today is only in music.”
«For a long time I concentrated only on my work, personal research remained a bit aside, I didn’t love myself and I often got into relationships in which, since I didn’t know myself well enough, I lost myself. And I ran away. Now I practice yoga, it’s helping me a lot and I’ve learned to love myself. I’m not in love and I’m not looking for a relationship at all costs. If it arrives, amen. My search for adventures today is only in music.”
The divorce from Lorenzo Doni
Among the most delicate moments, the divorce from Lorenzo Doni, in 2022. Lawyer and golf instructor, Doni had met the singer in 2015, thanks to mutual friends, and the spark had struck. «He was looking for me, he sent messages, but it took me a while, I didn’t understand: I gave up due to insistence»Irene Grandi revealed some time ago, always at Vanity Fair. On 2 July 2918, the wedding was celebrated in San Pietro a Narbolia, in the province of Oristano, a place very dear to both of them.
The breakup, she would have said to Florentine courier following the announcement, also for professional reasons: «I got married in an attempt to understand if I felt grown up, perhaps to “calm down” certain sides of me that I had always passionately channeled into music. But in marriage I understood that a healthy selfishness persists in me that I cannot break away from, the priority is always work, and therefore it didn’t work».
Irene Grandi and love in music
The singer, despite everything, truly believes in love, but is certain that things cannot always be saved: «In the past there were too many unhappy marriages that continued only because “they had to”. Maybe love is too often confused with cinema, passion, convenience, the bonds that have been created and you think it’s a shame to throw them away. It is difficult today to understand what love is. I don’t know but I keep singing it because it’s the only way I can really get close to it».