Guest of the radio show I Lunatici on Rai Radio 2, Riccardo Fogli He intervened in the middle of the night to share anecdotes about his career and the musical journey with the Poohs. “This is my time, at night I read, write and listen to music,” the songwriter joked, recalling years of concerts around Italy with Facchinetti and others, the fans, success and then farewell, defined as “casual”. what shaped his career.
But thinking about his family – his wife Karin Trentini and daughter Michelle – Fogli focuses on the present and the passing of time. The artist, from Pontedera (Pisa), will blow out 75 candles on October 21st and, as he says, his thoughts are always with his 9-year-old daughter. “Time flies,” he said ironically of his relationship to the passing of time: “The time that will come to me frightened just because i have a 9 year old girl, my young love, and who needs me and will need a few more years.
Fogli’s thoughts therefore went to his mother, who died years ago, on whom he relies in prayer: “I ask my mother, who has been in heaven since 2000, to act as spokeswoman for Our Lady so that she lives a little longer, because I want it protect my little daughter. My big son is thirty years old, he works, he’s perfect.” The singer-songwriter said he leads a healthy life, eats little, keeps fit, doesn’t drink wine and works with passion and energy. “I’m not afraid of to become oldbut I want to do it in peace, I can’t suddenly leave the world, I’m not ready yet.”
The memories, the anecdotes and the frankness with which Fogli revealed his fears for the future struck and delighted the presenter of I Lunatici, but above all the show’s late-night audience, who went on Twitter He dedicated words of appreciation and affection to the songwriter. Meanwhile he enjoys the professional commitments between the concerts of his “World Tour 2022” and the recently published biography “Predestinato (metalmeccanico)”, a book in which he tells of his childhood, between tears and joy, and of his life full of successes and scars.