The young Amici singer, returning from the Sanremo Festival, tells Ciao Mascio what it was like to face the father figure and collide with failure.
For an artist, the road to success is rarely downhill. It’s no exception Luke D’Alessioin art LDAwho on March 4 during an interview with Hello malethe Rai 1 program hosted by Nunzia De GirolamoHe tells of his first experience with the trauma of failure. The singer, made famous by Amici, made his debut at the Sanremo Festival at the age of 19 with the single ‘If so tomorrow‘. However, the breakthrough was not easy. The first big obstacle, as is so often the case with art children, it clashes with the “uncomfortable” father figure. De Girolamo recalls: “Often, ‘children of’ have to do eight times more than their parents.” So what was it like for Luca to say to Gigi D’Alessio: “I want to be a singer?”.
“I used to play football, but while I was doing it in my head I sang. At some point I realized that this is what I wanted to do in life. Dad used to take me to his concerts and I’d look at him backstage and think, “I wish I could have been on that stage.” When I was about fourteen, I went to my father and told him that I wanted to do the same job as he did. I started crying because I really believed it was wrong, maybe because of the collective notion that “the son of” was a featured character. Dad told me something that I will carry with me for the rest of my life: “Always remember, I will never put fish on your table. I can give you a fishing rod, but you have to fish and cook it yourself.” So the greatest happiness is to have a father who gives you a lot of advice.”
Luca claims that he is not used to talking and that he often prefers silence to words. This time, however, the young Neapolitan singer speaks freely and bluntly, demonstrated a professional and human maturity that is sometimes difficult to expect at his age. But courage, according to the singer, comes through “showing yourself” not “hiding” and he demonstrates it by speaking candidly about one of the moments when he collided with a major disappointment.
“I showed up at clubs, bugged everyone and asked them to sing. I didn’t tell my parents, I said go out with friends. Once I went to a club in Naples where there were 500 people to sing. I start singing and I swear there are three left, two were my friends. I came home exhausted and said to myself: “I can’t do this in life”. For the first time I didn’t have the courage to continue. For five months I didn’t make music, I didn’t listen to music, I got in my car and turned off the radio. I was 17, after a few months I wrote “What Wehs” and introduced it to Amici. There I had the courage to show myself.”