Le donne di Antonello playlist

Antonello's Women

For a singer-songwriter born on International Women’s Day, it almost seems like fate that many of his songs, composed over forty years of career, have female protagonists, starting right from the title. The result was a series of small studies of women, beginning with the Sora Rosa of his debut album in 1972, a silent witness to a harsh accusation against society, to Lula, of 1999, a mature knowledgeable woman who chooses her lovers even for just one night. He covers a series of women, from the sensual and malicious Mariù of 1973, to the tragic young prostitute in Maria Maddalena of 1976 and Lilly of 1975, lost in a spiral of drugs. And how can we forget the luminous youth of the student-mother Sara and, the opposite, Marta and her hard life of sacrifices, who studies and works to free herself from a family that doesn’t understand her. Perhaps the most successful and delightful one is the portrait of the pregnant Cinzia and her companion Piero (Piero e Cinzia from 1984) who are going to hear the historic Bob Marley concert at the San Siro stadium in Milan, on June 27th of 1980. In short, a world of women for Antonello Venditti, who this year celebrates his seventieth birthday, and to whom we send our best wishes for the occasion.