ROME – The strong bond between Claudio Baglioni and his city, Rome, is even more indissoluble from today. In fact, Mayor Roberto Gualtieri handed over the famous Capitoline Wolf to the singer for his artistic contribution and strong bond with the city. “We are honored to receive Claudio Baglioni, to award him the Lupa. He is a unique artist, a poet, author of beautiful music. He was also an innovator in his musical experience. He was able to blend genres and at the same time have a very recognizable and profound musical imprint, especially in the relationship with his lyrics, the harmonies and the melodies that are in his songs, masterpieces that have remained in the imagination and hearts of Italians”, he said on the occasion of the Gualtieri delivery ceremony.
“Baglioni loves our city. He was able to tell it in many songs that drew inspiration from places, situations and eras of our city, transforming it into poetry. He is also a person committed to rights and giving something with his foundation.” With these words the First Citizen of the Capitol expressed “the gratitude, affection and gratitude on the part of all Roman women and men”. Before the delivery ceremony, the Mayor and Baglioni met privately, as they revealed, to play two of the songs belonging to the singer's repertoire (“A little more” and “E tu come stai?”) which, once received la Lupa, declared: “I am grateful to Roberto Gualtieri and to all those who give me this award. Perhaps for the first time I think of dedicating it to Silvia and Riccardo, my mother and father, who, not being Romans, as soon as the war ended thought they would find El Dorado, the land promised by Ficulle, an Umbrian town, in the capital”.
The kilometers traveled by the parents, added the interpreter, “were done by flying. They had wings of enthusiasm, hope and certainty that the future would be something better. They deserve the blame and credit for having made me born in this city that we saw growing up, because all the houses that we were able to afford up to a certain point in life were on the edge of the suburbs. Where the city grew. As the city moved we moved accordingly.” You can really perceive the connection with the Capital, also evident according to these words: “Rome is the city in which I have performed the most, I think I have sung everywhere, we need to build new spaces”.
Baglioni also retraced the years of the Centocelle period, the beginnings of his career with the first away performance in an Odescalchi Castle, accompanied, still 17 years old, by his parents themselves to the appointment with the pianist with whom he would then go to perform: “I would like to say thanks to those two boys who flew down to Rome and gave me birth here.”
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