Vecchioni reveals his poignant connection with the theme of prisons: “I..

Vecchioni tells himself: ‘Every time I passed Procida I cried’. The singer-songwriter’s reflections on the reality of prisons.

During the program In other words aired on The 7, Vecchioni he revealed an unpublished part of himself, telling some anecdotes about his life experience, private and otherwise.

Roberto Vecchioni, Contrary to what it might seem, it defines itself terrible nerda person always ready to study when needed.

He is a person with a soul eager to know, curious and this part of himself has always pushed him to be the so-called first in the class. The professor of Roberto Vecchioni, that of literature, represented for him a fundamental figure within his academic career.

The one between Roberto Vecchioni and this professor was a relationship centered on mutual respect: “Old men, come and I’ll question you” he told him and Roberto he was ready every time to answer his questions with great confidence.

Roberto Vecchioni’s relationship with prisons

Then during the interview Old men he went from talking about school to talking about family and also showed some photos of his mom and dad. The latter was Neapolitan, a man with the classic lively character that characterizes Neapolitans. But he played cards, roulette and horses… so Old men defined it inveterate player.

These passions led him to win a nice sum of money but unfortunately, due to his gambling habit, this sum was soon lost at the casino. Despite this though Roberto Vecchioni he is keen to underline how much strength of mind and how much industriousness his father had, admitting:

“Neapolitans are hard workers, let no one get it into their heads that they aren’t”.

What he did Old men it is an affectionate and vivid portrait of a great man who had, between strengths and weaknesses, a fundamental role in the artist’s life.

Then he moves on to a totally different topic and tells his personal point of view regarding them prisons.

“When I went on holiday to Ischia as a child, we passed Procida, the island. Every time I passed Procida I cried, I was six or seven years old and my father asked me why I was crying and I said ‘because who are those gentlemen up there?’. There was the Procida penitentiary, they were all looking out of the grates and I felt terrible seeing them like that from afar, it seemed to me that they were outside of humanity, outside of everything and it was absolutely not right.”