Mourning in the world of Roman music. Alessandro Speranza, a musician, composer of cinema and short films and member of the folk group McFly’s Got Time, with voice and guitar, has died at the age of 27.
Speranza died on December 28 after a long battle with the disease. A former student of the Avogadro Science School, he had studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. In 2015 he founded McFly’s Got Time with Michele Proietti, Alessandro Rizzo and Emanuele Fragolini, who released their debut EP “Elsewhere” in 2016, curated by OfficineZero’s sound engineer Nicola d’Amati. Just d’Amati wanted to remember his friend who disappeared on Facebook.
“I lost the closest person in my life to a brother – wrote d’Amati – Alessandro was a great musician, first as a pop songwriter, then as a composer, mainly of soundtracks, and it would be nice if you all took a listen would you find on his artist page and which you will find in the future, because Ale, who, while the illness complicated his life in every way, had found time to win a prize at Cannes, among other things, left some beautiful things open with”.
The reference is to “The conspiracy theorist”, a short film that won the La Cinef section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022. Speranza also won the Best Soundtrack award at the I don’t know you festival for the music composed for the film Roman Night. The pain expressed by friends and those who met and worked with Speranza was enormous, many people remembered the talent, kindness and sensitivity that always distinguished him.