Every night before falling asleep, Cesare Cremonini Observe a tradition: to tighten the golden chain that his father gave him in his left hand. «It makes me feel better, it reassures me, it gives me tranquility and strength. My father gave it to me before he died: it was the last thing he did before saying goodbye. It was the same chain that I tightened when I was a child and went to her shoulders. When singing San Luca During the tour I want to do it: it is an emotional necessity that becomes a show but also interpretation “. The moment he responds from the Zoom window open in front of me Caesar, back from the date of CremoniniLive25 In Naples, a given charge of emotion and gratitude (“It is not obvious to receive so much: Naples is Naples, and it is not comparable to any other city because there the volume of emotions is higher than all”) takes time to reflect on the answers, with a cigarette that from time to time the lips infiora. He is tired but happy, In perennial balance between the joy of having artistically linked to a world -renowned photographer like Greg Williams (“Like all the greatest artists, I was struck by his speed of action, the ease with which he enters in connection with the environment that surrounds him, knowing how to grasp the moment with a deadly instinct”), The euphoria of a tour in the stadiums completely sold out – which will continue in 2026 with four special events At the Circus Maximus of Rome, at the Snai Hippodrome La Maura in Milan, the Enzo and Dino Ferrari car in Imola and the Visarno Arena in Florence – and the urgency of navigating on sight that have all the survivors of the burras of the soul and pain.
greg williams
Do you ever get used to the heat of a stadium?
“I don’t think habit is the right word for someone like me: I am very attentive to the idea of seeing and meeting the audience in different periods of my career and at different times of the society in which we live. The relationship with the public, in this sense, can never be repetitive because the world changes very quickly but, beyond everything, people are everything for me, because my antennas are always aimed at them. My songs have never pretended to send messages, but to collect them ».
Ever lived the weight of having to send a message?
“There was a period in which the word” songwriter “was assimilated to the idea of those who should indicate or propose ideals. Today, however, I believe that a singer -songwriter must learn to collect messages from the public because people today are exhibited as much as an artist from a sensitivity point of view. There is no longer such an imposing step to divide them as they once were, even if someone regrets it. For me, however, they are wrong. Why a song like Nobody wants to be Robin It speaks, for example, of generational mutism in contrast with the deafening noise of social media. It is a song that has collected a message from the public ».
While working a Nobody wants to be Robin He fell into the black hole of schizophrenia. Today that song sings her during the tour: did she make us peace?
“I’ve never needed to make peace with Robin Because it is a song that, from a certain point of view, saved my life even if, perhaps, it would be more correct to say that the songs protect us and do not save us: you must always do the rest. Robin It is a song that contains so much pain that sometimes even the public is afraid of it, but I think it is an important wedge of my approach to music and writing ».
What is that wedge?
“Try to hear what everyone feels. We are experiencing a historical period in which we all try the same things and suffer from a common disease, of a widespread pathology. Being able to say what people cannot formulate is a task and a responsibility that, if you are an artist, he must try to do. It is a patient job, not as a cicada but from the formica ».
