Yesterday at Sony, between gold and multi-platinum records, I said to myself: “Man, if I had been born with a beautiful voice!”, but no. But in one of the Italian temples of music you can't help but think that, and within it any dream is allowed.
Back in my role as a journalist, I went upstairs, where the preview presentation of “Diversamente Triste” Shade's new album, would take place. I had already had the opportunity to interview the singer a few years ago and had memories of an extremely easygoing person.
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We enter the room and Shade greets us with a “What's up? Caught the rain? I took refuge in Gae Aulenti for a few minutes!”, I remembered well.
I take a seat in the front row for the presentation, I want to listen carefully and take notes.“Diversamente Triste” is an album that represents the artist's personality to three hundred and sixty degrees. It would be too easy to think of Shade and relegate him to a single “bene ma non benissimo” refrain or to think of him as a baby club artist at an Italian holiday resort. Good things are, as always, for those who have the sensitivity and intelligence to go beyond that.
Vito, this is the singer's real name, at the age of thirty-five felt the need to mature artistically and make an album that could contain all his facets. There is “the ignorant song” as he defines it and the more profound song, such as “Tutto quello che ho”.
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It has been a good five years since his last album and although for the speed of modern times it may seem crazy, for Shade it would be crazy to do otherwise. During the conference, another journalist provokes him by asking if it is because he has another job, that of a voice actor, that he can afford to work on such a diluted schedule. The singer's answer is simple, clean and at least truthful: “To make an album you have to live the emotions. Music is the story of them. How can you live emotions, make experiences that you can write about in a few months?”.
When we did the video interview, I was faced with a simple person with a desire to tell. He told me that he considers himself a good guy, but that it is not always easy to be a good person in a bad world, that contacting artists to do features is difficult because they are all very busy, and that he would have preferred to eat the excellent buffet served by Sony instead of his healthy schtick.
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An ironic and informal chat with the singer who loves oxymorons and also knows what they are; who with an ironic and playful tone of voice conveys profound and refined messages with cultural and artistic references of the most diverse kind.
Bravo Shade.
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