Scialpi turns sixty and plans to get married by the end of the year.
The lucky one is "Leo", that is Uwel Bankston, who lives in Los Angeles: "We talk every day, via video call - tells Corriere the singer, born Giovanni Scialpi, who caused a sensation in the Eighties with 'Rocking Rolling' , 'Cigarettes and Coffee', 'No East No West' and 'Pregherei' -. We are sixty years old, we have abandoned our youthful fury, a relationship at our age has different needs, it thrives on other things. This year Leo cannot come to Italy, so I'll go, I'll stay two weeks then I'll come back, I have a series of 'guests' and concerts ”.
The marriage with Roberto Blasi , who she married in 2015, is heading towards divorce: “For me an overwhelming love - he explains -. Today we are on excellent terms. At the end of the year, as soon as I get a divorce, we plan to get married with Leo. He would like me to go to live in Los Angeles, I think maybe we should look for a place where life is cheaper. Like Malaga, in Spain ... He has an ex-wife who owes alimony for life. They divorced seven years ago, and since then she has changed her life ”.
At sixty he has great energy even if after Beijing Express , in 2015, he had to have a pacemaker implanted : “I'm back rather battered, after all if you have health problems while you are in the rainforest where do you go? I do not drink and I do not take drugs, I would say that I am an athletic type. But 80 percent of my heart no longer beats, more precisely 35 percent of a ventricle, 40 percent of an atrium. I am alive thanks to the pacemaker ... ".
As for the problems of poverty he spoke of some time ago, he says, "I am not the only one". “The stop to all activities imposed by the lockdown has made things worse. It should not be the multinationals that receive aid and 'relief' from the state, but the smaller, independent labels. I count on concerts to be able to return to a 'normal' life and be able to afford to go to the dentist. Like all. And if I really don't succeed, well maybe I'll open a little place in Malaga ”.
