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I remember the first time I heard his voice. I was sitting in the car with my summer romance somewhere in southern Italy. We had driven to a forest next to the sea, revelling in that  euphoric teenage anticipation. As we parked among the pine trees, my fling turned on the  radio. The air was instantly caramelised by the music which was fed through...

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You say Fabrizio De André, and you think Bocca di rosa, or Don Raffaè, or that sleepy fisherman in the shadow of the last sun or even in Genoa that is the background to his stories sung. Or to his beloved Sardinia, where he had chosen to live, where he was kidnapped and where he returned to live because as he said about that land: “I feel more peas...

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Fabrizio De Andrè was born in Genoa in 1940 and his words were right at that time as they are now. “La Guerra di Piero” is one of the most famous song of the Italian singer, also known as “The Poet of the Music”. Opening this article with this verse sounds like a call. We are all living a tough time and it is, indeed, a sort of World War. I think i...

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