Manu Chao announces the live return to Italy with five new concerts, produced by VignaPr and Production, scheduled for this summer: the first is set for Saturday 26 July at the Medici Park of Pratolino in Florence for Musart Festival, on 29 July at Villa Erba in Cernobbio for the Lake Sound Park, on August 1 at the Fluviale Parco di Santa Sofia (FC) for AcieloAperto Festival, on August 4 in Piazza del Piece A Livorno and 10 August at the Ivan Graziani Amphitheater in Alghero. Tickets for new appointments will be on sale from 12 noon on Friday 13 June online on Ticketone.it, Ticketsms.it, Eilo.it and Ticketmaster.it. All information on these new dates is available on the website www.vignap.it
Jose Manuel Arturo Chao Ortega, aka Manu Chao, has always been considered one of the freelast artists, not conforming to the rules of the market, an authentic reference point of the international music scene.
With the negran hand before and as a soloist then he wrote milestones of rock music, folk and alternatives, such as “illegal immigrant” (1998), and inspired millions of musicians throughout the globe, recently also the young and talented Alfa, with whom he made the single “I like me”, who has already become the hit of the summer in Italy and entered the rankings of the individuals most listened to in France, Belgium, Belgium. Austria.
With the “clandestine” bestseller (1998) by over four million copies sold – with hits such as the title track“Desaparecido” and “Je ne T'Aime Plus” – Manu Chao conquered the public from all over the world, rising to a symbol of the antagonistic battle and, at the time, no Global. But in reality, behind rhetoric and easy labels, the character proves to be more complex and multifaceted, constantly boil between propaganda temptations and an intimate sensitivity, which digs in daily reality with a painful and disenchanted soul.
Born in Paris on the 21st of the 1961, from a father originally from Galicia and a mother of Bilbao, the irrepressible Oscar Tramor, aka Manu Chao, led the band between 1987 and 1994, in symmetry with the rivals Negresses Vertes. Hands were called Negra for a sort of revaluation in the romantic sense of the first South American mafia. That formation melted “to exhaust the original motivations” – and, with her, also that musical conception christened “Patchanka”, a daring mélange of sounds from all over the world. But Chao did not stay still, and surprised everyone with his first solo test.
If the Negra (Favorite Supporters of Iggy Pop) focused on a subversive rock, “Encabronado”, as Manu Chao defines it, in the debut album of their leader, “illegal immigrant” (1998), the Mexican, Brazilian or Afgliban rhythms prevail. There are sixteen songs (twelve in Spanish, one in English, one in Portuguese and two in French), which tell all his wandering in music. The atmospheres soften, as in the melancholy “desaparecido”, or in the poignant “je ne t'aime plus”. Everything is very fresh, immediate. The theme of the journey often occurs, with particular attention to the borders, such as Gibraltar, between Spain and Maghreb, and Tijuana, the American dream of those who flee from Mexico.
The rest of his career has continued between ups and downs, but always in the sign of strong compositional independence, combined with a message of peace and universal brotherhood.
Over the years he has been the protagonist in Italy of concerts capable of recalling thousands of people who share music and ideals with him. His relationship with our country is truly special and this year Manu Chao has decided to return to us for new appointments that will turn into real parties for everyone, singing the great hymns of his career: from “Mala Vida” to “Clandestino”, passing through “Próxima Estación: Esperanza” up to the last album “Viva tu”.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
