Last appointment with the season of musical events organized by the Magna Grecia Orchestra. Tomorrow at 9pm at the Orfeo theater in Taranto, a concert by Simona Molinari, singer-songwriter and composer, with seven albums under her belt and an extraordinary production of pop and jazz, is scheduled.
With the popular Neapolitan artist, winner of numerous awards, including the Targa Tenco, the Magna Grecia Orchestra directed by Maestro Piero Romano. She is a pop jazz singer-songwriter, she collaborates, among others, with Al Jarreau, Gilberto Gil, Peter Cincotti, Andrea Bocelli, Ornella Vanoni, Renzo Arbore, Massimo Ranieri, Raphael Gualazzi.
Simona Molinari holds concerts at the Blue Note in New York and Tokyo, at the Estrada Theater in Moscow and many other clubs around the world. She competes at the Sanremo Festival (“Egocentrica” and “La Felicità”) and twice more as a guest. She made her debut as an actress in the film “C’è tempo” by Walter Veltroni, writing some songs on the soundtrack.
In 2022 she was awarded the Targa Tenco as Best Performer for the album “Petali”. Her latest album, “Hasta Siempre Mercedes”, is a tribute to one of the most influential and symbolic artists in all of Latin America, Mercedes Sosa. The album contains eleven beautiful songs: in addition to the reinterpretation of some pearls of Sosa’s repertoire (“Todo Cambia”, “Gracias a la Vida”, “Solo le pido a Dios”, “Canvòn de las cosas simples”), the classics Argentinian “Volver” and “El dia que me quieras”, and some references to Naples (including “Caruso”). Among her collaborations are those with Tosca and Paolo Fresu; she interprets an unreleased song by Bungaro (“Nu fil ‘e voci”), signs and interprets the song “Swing a Roselle”, included in the titles of “Romeo and Juliet”, Giovanni Veronesi’s latest film.
The 2023/2024 Musical Events Season is promoted by the Magna Grecia Orchestra in collaboration with the Municipality of Taranto, the Ministry of Culture and the Puglia Region, together with local activities and institutions: BCC-Banca di Credito Cooperativo, Teleperformance, Ninfole Caffè , Varvaglione Vini, Baux Cucine, Development Program and Borsci Elisir S. Marzano.
