MI welcome Ranieri and Napoli, a textbook combo. It’s the one on tonight at 9.20pm on Canale 5 with the first episode of the drama The voice inside you. A story of redemption and redemption set in the Neapolitan recording world that mixes local musical tradition with contemporary urban rhythms.
The voice inside youthe plot of the fiction
Michele Ferrara (Massimo Ranieri) is the owner of Parthenope Edizioni Musicali, a record company which in its golden age counted among its clients some of the most famous traditional singer-songwriters. His story begins with the end of a sentence – ten years – For the murder of his father Domenico, old glory of Neapolitan music. Crime of which he has always professed himself innocent.
He returns free in time to save the record company which the family, to avoid bankruptcy, has decided to sell to their most bitter enemy, the music publisher Gaetano Russo (Gianfranco Gallo). The idea repulses him, and then he would like it so much relaunch Parthenopeto the enormous surprise of his wife Maria (Maria Pia Calzone) and their three children.
Helping him is Anna, his youngest daughter, who begins to point out some new talents to him. Is exactly thanks to the meeting with the young trapper Regina (La Niña), the fate of the Parthenope – but above all the life of the Ferraras – takes an unexpected turn. However, Michele has to deal with his family, which he is determined to win back, despite his wife now being romantically linked to Giulio (Ruben Rigillo). But most of all Michele must work side by side with Regina to restore what was an institution for Naples to its former glory. She must teach but also learn, and get rid of some ghosts from the past.
Massimo Ranieri in a scene from “The voice you have inside”. (Mediaset/Lucky Red)
A story of music and redemption
Directed by Eros Puglielli, the fiction was born from an idea of Massimo Ranieri himself, legendary figure of Italian music and theatre. And it was precisely his decades of experience on stage that inspired the story of The voice inside youespecially when thinking back to the many young talents he met over time. Hence the desire to tell in a TV series the parable of a young artist who finds her path thanks to the experience and passion of a mentor.
Music, obviously, is the first great protagonist of the fiction, together with the city of Naples, a setting full of suggestion thanks to its warmth and the unmistakable imprint of its tradition. In fact, what is told is a Naples full of beauty, where music reigns at every corner.
Returning to music, it is obviously Massimo Ranieri who lends Michele’s voice, giving the viewer exciting interpretations of traditional Neapolitan songs, which accompany the entire narrative like punctuation. But great space is also given to new sounds, with original music written by Andrea Guerra, also the author of I comethe song which in the fiction is performed by Michele and Regina (Carola Moccia, aka La Niña).
Regina’s unreleased songs were written and performed by Carola Moccia herself who, for the first time, debuts on screen as an actresswhile the Neapolitan trap songs are unreleased and signed by young emerging artists. Repertoire music is also very present, mixing songs by the late Pino Daniele with trap songs and songs from the popular tradition. All strictly Neapolitan.
Carola Moccia (Queen, aka La Niña). (Mediaset/Lucky Red)
La Niña, who is the new star of Neapolitan song
Born in 1991, Carola Moccia is one of the absolute revelations of contemporary music. Defined as the perfect hybrid between Rosalía and Teresa De Sio, the young singer-songwriter is also a multi-instrumentalist and uses refined instruments such as drums, seventeenth-century guitars and a zither. With musical references ranging from Fka twigs, Doja Cat and fellow countrymen Roberto Murolo and Gilda Mignonette, La Niña sings in Neapolitan, sometimes in English and Italian. And she oscillates between contemporary sounds, Mozart, references to baroque painting and philosophy. It is no coincidence that she graduated in this discipline at the Federico II University of Naples with a thesis on the Andalusian philosopher Maria Zambrano.
After some successful singles like Croce, Nunn’ or I want to know’, Just one thing and the feat with Gemitaiz Leave me alone, last March he released his debut album, Vanitas. Composed of ten songs that tell of dreams and pain generated by the depths of his memories and the abyss that precedes the processing of the trauma.
Making her acting debut in The voice inside youCarola sensitively interprets the character of Regina, a young singer who grew up in the Bassi area of Naples and in a macho world where he learned to command respect with the sound of trap bars. And behind a tough mask.
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