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Music: Lucio Dalla's 80s, his songs more current than ever =
Lucio Dalla would have turned 80 today. The Bolognese artist has made his mark on music history with a timeless song.
On March 2012, XNUMX, he suffered a heart attack while he was at the Hotel Plaza in Montreux, a Swiss town home to one of the most important music festivals in the world, the Montreux Jazz Festival, where he had performed the previous evening.
Three days later, he would have celebrated his 69th birthday, but instead his funeral will be held, perceived by all as a sign of a time that has come all too soon, a time in which Lucio Dalla's music, so significant to the lives of those over 40, remains. Dalla's songs are part of a timeless songwriting legacy.
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Listening to them today, they talk about us, they still talk about our country, with that futuristic, visionary, avant-garde attitude that has never been missing. Can we talk about the past when on Spotify, a platform that will begin operating in our country in February 2013, therefore less than a year after his death, and which today is the best thermometer for measuring music worldwide, an artist, ten years after his passing, collects over a million and a half monthly listens?
If over 30 million people have replayed "L'anno che verrà," the most-clicked song on Dalla's profile, can we consider its songwriter truly gone? "L'anno che verrà" is, of course, just one of the Bolognese singer-songwriter's evergreens that are still listened to today. "Anna e Marco" has reached 29 million, and "Piazza Grande" 26 million; all songs whose very existence confers a special stamp of immortality on their creators.
On YouTube, Lucio Dalla, with his official channel alone, has reached 250 million views for his content, proving that it is impossible to forget, to put aside, despite the confusion that reigns supreme in today's music, something that is part of our cultural DNA.
The first edition of "CIAO - RASSEGNA LUCIO DALLA, for innovative forms of music and creativity" concluded on Thursday evening. This award is necessary not only to honor Lucio Dalla as he deserves, but above all to preserve the curious and, yes, innovative spirit with which the Bolognese singer-songwriter approached the production of his songs.
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