” My graduation exam? I arrived in the second year of the teaching institute and then I stopped because I was rejected ”. This is what he reveals to Ruetir Al Bano Carrisi, explaining that he never graduated because he was more interested in music than in books. ” I did two years to become a primary school teacher – says the singer – but I was already more interested in music and songs than in school books. At the master’s they were all tuned to the factor of ‘going on strike’ rather than studying, moreover I was very good at drawing and I remember that I did one for me and one for a girl I liked very much and she put 8 and me 4. At that point I thought – he continues joking – ‘This is a real injustice! I left my studies at 15 – Al Bano continues – and I was already singing, in fact the professor of religion and music invited me to sing in the presidency of the master’s schools. Years later – he concludes bursting into laughter – I asked for my report card and I noticed that I had 4 in music ”. Asked if he is sorry not to have graduated, Al Bano concludes: ” I graduated from the University of life and there with full marks ”.
(by Alisa Toaff)
