“Even dangerous things must be faced like a game: an exam, a song to be sung for the first time, an illness. I had three tumors, three operations: one lung, one kidney, and one bladder. Yet I turned 78 and I'm fine ”.
Roberto Vecchioni confessed in an interview with "Corriere della Sera", from career to private life.
The Milanese singer-songwriter told of his relationship with alcohol: “I stopped drinking. Completely: not even a sip of wine. Seven years ago. I realized that I was sick, that I was wasting time and attention for the children, ”he explained.
The author of "Luci a San Siro" and "The man who gambles the sky with dice" also addressed the issue of religion: "I believe in the existence of God. As a Catholic, albeit not very practicing. be sure? Because the world is imperfect. If it were perfect, without deviations, then there would be no God. Instead, God exists, because he has allowed us, with free will, to face evil and good ".
Retracing some key moments of his career, he recalled a background behind the success of "Samarcarda", in 1977, and the famous refrain "Oh oh horse": "My father bet at the racecourse and owned a race horse named Nelumbo . And the earliest memory I have is of blaming a rocking horse when I once, at the age of half a year, I peed on the floor ”.
Finally, about his victory at the Sanremo Festival in 2011 with the song “Call me again love”, he claimed to have had a premonitory dream about the race: “I was sure I would win. I arrived, rehearsed, went to dinner: the restaurant was empty. At the end of the first evening, after the song had been sung, there were four hundred people outside the same restaurant. I understood that the dream was true ”.
(Unioneonline / F)