«Dad was never violent, but he had it with women. I met a call girl who was knocking to buy the piano for her son”

“You are in the soul” is the biopic about the first thirty years of Gianna Nannini, arriving May 2 on Netflix. Directed by Cinzia TH Torrini, it almost introduces newcomer Letizia Toni who plays her after months of preparation. The project, taken from the rock star’s book of the same name (which has the subtitle “Ca**i mie”, in an expanded Mondadori reprint), tells her story like never before, including moments of «tilt» (as she calls them) .

Born in the months of the pandemic, it has evolved by intertwining music and life in an unprecedented way. “It’s everything, from when I was kicked out of the choir at 7 years old to panic attacks, paranoia, to my daughter who says I’m out of tune when I sing in English.” They have defined her as a rebel, a non-conformist, but she doesn’t feel these labels on her: «I saw the future – she says – at least on some issues such as abortion, at the time of the demonstrations. There it was self-determination, today perhaps it is branded.”

It’s not the only topic he doesn’t tell her about nor the only memory he censors, in his outfit of jeans and sequins: «I met a prostitute who beat to buy the piano for her son, I romanticized that moment but it happened .

Nobody, on the other hand, changed my songs, they remained free-range, Tuscan, while in Milan, where there was no rock, they threw pears at me from the stage. Other things I can’t say, when I go outside it’s not something psychotic induced by drugs, but an internal battle that I no longer have.”

There are some thanks, however, starting from Mara Maionchi who, according to her, picked her up on the ground and gave her the first chance. She doesn’t know if the days of rock are over, the motorbikes still remain in the garage and there is no shortage of inspiration. At times hers seems like a fairy tale: the daughter of an entrepreneur, but almost renegade in her desire as an artist, she remembers her first steps: «Dad was never violent and authoritarian, but he had it against women who sang and who this was considered sluts. In Morocco, for example, singers could be bought. So at 14, after forbidding me to sing, he made me take ten lessons from a Bulgarian teacher. She taught me to sing with the diaphragm, with the ovaries and with the uterus.” To those who ask her if there will be a film about the second part of her life, she replies in a cryptic manner, awaiting feedback from all the other countries in which Netflix is ​​distributed. Whatever happens, she says she had fun and even cried during the first viewing. For her, who is never satisfied, it is already a huge success, but her real goal – she explains – is “to see how others see me from the outside”.

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