Event dedicated to author’s music and local associations
March – June 2024 – Villa Burba – Sala Del Camino – Corso Europa, 291, Rho
9.00 PM FREE ENTRY
FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2024
“ Love-shaped families “, place and respect for all
SBAZZEE/ SHANTI/ VIÒ CONCERT
THE ARCOBALENO FAMILIES ASSOCIATION AND GIULIA TURRI, PHOTOGRAPHER, ARE ATTENDING THE EXHIBITION OF THE OHANA PROJECT”
Sbazzee is an independent Italian-Lebanese artist, author of lyrics and her own music, who reveals her vulnerabilities, sometimes lightly, through the sounds of indie-pop/R&B, but also letting herself go into more cinematic experimentations and the desire to include in her songs typical characteristics of the Arab world from which she comes, with the aim of enhancing the depth of her voice and the seriousness of the themes she deals with. The watchword is “sincerity”, both in the writing of the lyrics and in the vocal performance.
Finalist of Music for Change (the most important European civil music award) and winner of the Musa Factory Award with the song Sola. The artist has always been committed to giving voice to discomfort, inequalities and gender disparity through her music.
Shanti was born in Rho on 01/14/1998.
In his life he began studying opera singing at the age of 10 with Maestra Daniela Gioia, chorister of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. In the same year he began playing the trumpet in the town band, in which he still plays today.
Subsequently he began studying modern singing, thus becoming passionate about pop music. She takes part in many events and competitions to gain more experience singing live. She started writing in 2020 also thanks to the help of Diego Mancino. During the year 2021 she attended Carlo Avarello’s “Academy” of Isola degli Artisti obtaining the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with Serena Brancale, Fio Zanotti, Piero Romitelli. Currently she continues her studies with Paola Folli and Silvia Smaniotto and carries out her activity as a singer-songwriter proposing her live songs and taking part in singing competitions, winner of the “ETICANTO” contest in Modena.
Elena Viola, aka Go, is a Sardinian singer-songwriter. Since she was a child she showed interest in music and she began her journey of musical studies. Since 2010 she began collaborating with some emerging artists of the Cagliari rap scene and she wrote her first songs. In 2015, the improvement of her musical studies led her to move to Milan where in 2018 she began to collaborate with the producer Gheesa on the realization of her solo project. In June 2022 she released her first single “Tiramisù” which was presented during the Milan Music Week. In December of the same year she released her debut EP “Lùghe” which will be presented live in various venues in the Milan area including EST, Apollo, Le Park, Arci Bellezza, Circolo Magnolia (opening in Mostro), Biko and Ostello Bello . In 2023 she performed at Off Topic in Turin, at Ostello Bello in Florence and at PoettoFest in Cagliari. Her musical world combines sounds of clear R & B inspiration, Afrobeat and rap with lyrics and vocals that recall the Sardinian tradition.
Arcobaleno Families Association of Homosexual Parents, was founded in 2005, formed by LGBTQI+ parents with the aim of making our families known and fighting for the rights of our children who are still not protected by any state law today. “The parents of our association are parents who want to be visible in society and our way is simple: to make ourselves known and tell about ourselves in our simplicity. In addition to this, obviously we are often in the streets with civil society and the LGBTQI+ community to ask for human rights for us and for our children.”
“OHANA” Photographic Project by Giulia Turri
The photographic exhibition is inspired by the term OHANA, which, in Hawaiian culture means family in the broadest sense of the term, and includes the close, adoptive, or intentional relationship where at the center is the idea of cooperating and remembering each other . This word contains the meaning of that
“place” where no one is abandoned or forgotten therefore, even the image of a friendship or sisterhood that unites through deep closeness and cooperation, is the meaning of the Ohana. The basic idea is to broaden the concept of family which today favors the nuclear heterosexual family as the only absolute and universal natural system, thus excluding all other “non-normed” family forms, but which are nevertheless authentic natural human facts.
