"Sometimes a little poetry is enough..."
My journey began from there... on that summer afternoon... among the semi-deserted paths of the Ligurian hinterland...
I was walking along the road that climbs from Finale Ligure towards Le Manie... until I met a place on my way that convinced me to stop... it was a church, or rather, it once was... now it housed a Tavern...
A stone building set in a natural landscape typical of the place... with the unmistakable colours, scents and noises of that corner of the earth...
I sat down in the courtyard ... under the pergola that covered the external area of the former churchyard ... and immediately a young man appeared and came towards me with a flask of wine and a glass. He moved awkwardly and with his head bent to one side... he asked me "Do you want something?"... it was three in the afternoon... I had just eaten... but I accepted the invitation from the nice young innkeeper anyway and I asked what there was to taste... "Only bread and salami" he answered... so I nodded yes and after a few minutes a basket of bread arrived on my table, a salami already started, a chopping board and a knife. "Eat as much as you like... meanwhile the cost doesn't change"... so I began to enjoy that simple snack and relaxed.
Here... here my first text was born... which then became the first song: "Ali per volo"...
I think I wrote about a hundred "pseudo-poems" with the intention of later transforming them into musical works, or in any case, into something like that.. Actually, only a dozen have remained worthy of that title... the others have finished to create more card.
Liguria has been an important land for me, for my passion for music and singing... but that's not all.
That's where I spent many summers as a kid... that's where I entered my first singing competition. That's where I wrote my first three songs... and that's where I met the woman who is now my wife... for whom I wrote "Pelle di luna".
...To all those who will read and visit these pages... I hope to convey to them the messages and the atmosphere that I wanted to enclose in my way of being a songwriter and interpreter of Maestro Claudio Baglioni's works...