To celebrate 25 years of “A casa di Luca”, presented for the first time at the Sanremo Festival in 1997, Silvia Salemi is back on the scene with “Noi contro di noi” (Dischi Dei Sognatori label / Artist First distribution), from you wrote together with Matteo Faustini and Marco Rettani.
Characterized by summer sounds, “Noi contro di noi” is a song that invites those who listen to it to reflect on delicate issues, such as the environment and the strong need for unity and peace. A direct and current text that is linked to the difficulties that have marked the last few years and that have led human beings to distrust their neighbor and not see the good that is in the other.
We met Silvia Salemi on the occasion of “Happy Birthday Mimì”, a wind dedicated to the great Mia Martini, which was held at the Manzoni theater in Milan on September 24th.
Silvia, what does Mia Martini represent for you?
“I believe that a cast of millions of artists is not enough to be able to express Mimì’s intensity and scratch. We are here to celebrate her as if she were among us. She represents a wounded woman, and this wound of her then becomes breath, voice, sign, and also the imprint that she has left in the history of music for all of us, female artists and male artists. Whoever plays her cannot help but fall in love with her and feel the pain she carried inside her. She has had a life artistically full of evolutions but she has brought the wound of the great misunderstanding and we are guilty of this and by evoking her we can try in some way to compensate her for what was taken away from her in her life. Obviously it is impossible but we must also celebrate it on a happy occasion such as her birthday. In fact, we usually celebrate who is among us and Mimì is “.
What binds you to the song you chose to bring to the Manzoni stage?
“The profound meaning of this passage binds me,” Men do not change “, even if I have nothing to complain to men as a woman because I love them, I am a mother, I understand them, but there are also those, and I also say this from godmother of the association against femicide, which hurt us. Mia had no physical injuries from men but moral injuries and she brought this into her songs of hers ”.
You also sang “A casa di Luca”, your famous hit that turned 25 this year. What does this song represent for you?
“They have been 25 years of musical, personal, spiritual and traveled journeys and this year we wanted to celebrate them. We did it with A Casa di Luca revised and we want to celebrate it with a new song, Noi contro di noi, a single that talks about current issues, with modern sounds and arrangements, even if in 2022 the man seems not to have learned the lesson of make peace and continue to make war. This is sad but it must be said loudly in the songs ”.
It is a song that turns on the light also on environmental issues …
“When we say we are on the same blue ball, it means we live on the same beautiful planet, too bad you risk becoming a big fireball. It is the fear of the new generations and should also become the driving force of positive actions for the environment by those who decide. It is no longer the time to tell us it is late but it is time to act, to make small actions and gestures that become the famous drops of the sea that then create the wave that changes everything “.
What projects will you be involved in next?
“I’m coming out with an unreleased song that is part of Federico Moccia’s new film that will hit theaters in the fall, a funny story but one that also makes you think. There will then be a radio restart with a people show entitled Avanti tutto on Rai Radio and other things that will arrive in 2023 “.
What is your relationship with cinema?
“The Venice Film Festival ended a few days ago and I would like to go see those films but I also like to watch old films and series on the platforms. I am a great user of films but it takes time to devote to viewing and also to understand what you are seeing ”.
What did the experience of “Star in the star” leave you?
“Back pain with that heavy mask… (laughs). He left me a new me, a continuous study of voice, character, of how to be on stage and learn the sound without hearing it because he was imprisoned in the mask. I always tell my daughters that you never stop learning and that’s the fun. The artist who feels he has arrived must stay at home because if he does not get excited he does not even excite the others “.
by Francesca Monti