Evra is a singer-songwriter from Puglia who emigrated to Milan with the dream of becoming one of the female figures of reference in Italian music.
He recently released the EP What I try to hide, a first look at his style and his ability to tell stories in music. An EP that has already received very positive opinions from critics and the public:
“It’s giving me so much personal satisfaction which is the basis, it’s a job that took me three years to do and the fact of having released it excites me and makes me feel happy. It’s a bit like when a child is born who now has to go his own way.
It’s also strange to see how a song that maybe I liked least and didn’t even want to include in the EP for the public becomes the favorite song. I think it’s a purely emotional sensation and sensations ”.
They are 6 songs with a lot of narration, with long lyrics compared to the average of the songs produced in the last period. A need to say many things:
“I don’t decide what to talk about, I simply think of things that I sign and which then became songs. When I start writing I never know where I’m going, if I had to control the creative flow I wouldn’t be able to write anything.
Every time I try to control myself I’m not capable, I block myself, it’s all purely instinctive and I later rationalized what I wrote in these tracks from the EP.
The title of the EP was born randomly, I didn’t know I wanted to write it. When I wrote Fire and flames I came up with this sentence and, re-reading it, I thought it should be the title of the whole EP”.
Evra Are there any limits that you have set yourself that you have removed with this EP?
“I don’t think I’ve ever set limits on myself, I don’t care because if we think about it, the things that last over time are those done without thinking.
The limits I set for myself are more social. I was a very sensitive child, I was told I was too good so in life I built a mask that led me to be less myself.
I feel that in life I have hidden because I wanted to appear confident but now, at 24, I want to give a damn and be who I am. The EP helps me get all of that out.”
Coming from the south affects this Evra? Could having a background linked to family dynamics different from those of the rest of Italy have influenced your way of seeing things?
“Yes, it makes sense because if we think about it, that’s the circle of people, people are more or less always the same and the fact of knowing everyone leads you to close yourself up mentally. Milan, on the other hand, allows you to expand your circle, to get to know many people and to get more ideas and stimuli.
A smaller city, with a comfort zone mentality, doesn’t let you grow and doesn’t let you explore a part of you. Maybe the people I used to know didn’t allow me to reach this degree of awareness”.
