27 years after the death of Fabrizio De André, which occurred on 11 January 1999, today many remember the Genoese singer-songwriter, his importance in the history of music and, some, also for their personal lives. Among these is Vasco Rossi, who published a post on Instagram where he retraced the phases of their friendship and told how Faber influenced him artistically.
«Fabrizio was the only great artist who I then got to know in a truly profound way. In the early 1980s he contacted me directly, he wanted to come and visit me and meet me in person. He came down with Dori, his partner, and I met De André who had come to my house! I was stunned, because in my opinion it was a meeting of the Madonna, something sacred… We dated for a wonderful period, I went to her house many times. For me he has always been an absolute point of reference, even today I write always thinking of him. I feel like it's my personal Nobel», began the rocker from Zocca. And then he went into detail.
«When he recognized me as an artist I was so intimidated that I was literally about to kneel in front of him, but instead he nodded at me, as if to say: “What are you doing?”. And he immediately put himself on the same level as me, as an equal. He was the one who broke the mold the most in my opinion, the one who for the first time said things truly clearly in the Italian musical panorama, as well as saying them in a beautiful way musically.”
And he admitted how much it influenced him: «It opened up a new world to me, the ability to understand things, to see them from another point of view. Critical skills, deep meditation. He was also the first one who made me understand that I might not agree with what he himself was saying. Intellectual disobedience: I had learned self-criticism with the theatre, criticism from him. It was a fundamental step that I had never considered possible before: questioning even your teachers…”.
