“Now that I have learned to dream and I won’t stop” is part of the refrain of a famous Negrita song. A phrase that every girl or boy should never forget. Because dreaming costs nothing, dreaming is good for your mood and pushes you to give your best to try to achieve what you want.
Giada Sarzola made a little dream come true and last March she recorded and published her first single “Senza trova il senso”. A delicate and intense song that reflects her very much, jovial and decisive like Giada herself.
The interview
How was this song born Giada?
“By chance. I was studying an exercise to do for the kids I teach singing to and I came up with a set of chords that I liked. I wrote them and talked about them with a producer from Bologna who recorded them. From there on a rainy day I was at home listening to them and the lyrics were born.”
A bit like Mister Rain? Who writes songs when it rains?
“The rain helps. I was in a moment of confusion in my life and the words came out without me looking for them. But I wrote others even without the rain.”
Did you also shoot a video?
“Yes Mattia Toni, who is a very good technician from Castelnovo ne’ Monti, took the slopes of Pietra di Bismantova as his location and as “actors” a couple of friends who are Jessica Canovi and Nicolò Zanelli. I wanted to convey love and with them I would say I succeeded”
Have you participated in any talent shows?
“Yes to X Factor in 2019 but it didn’t go very well. Then some bullfights here in the area but little else. I’ve always focused more on studying than on talent, I admit.”
How did you start singing?
“I started as a child because my mother is an enthusiast and at the age of 7 I started taking lessons from Oriana Riccò di Vetto. In the meantime I went to compulsory school and high school. Then I decided to look around and signed up to the Creative Hub in Bologna. Here I am completing a course of studies on singing and music. In July I will have the last exam and then in November there will be the proclamation.”
Will you have to defend a thesis? Who or what did you write it about?
“I did my thesis and it is on the history of music “From Nilla Pizzi to Annalisa” within which there is a very important cultural and musical journey. I won’t have to discuss it because it is an academy and therefore just hand it in.”
What would you like to do next?
“I’m working on my first album where there will be some songs in Italian, others in English but they’re not ready yet. They need to be fixed, engraved and seen if they are good or need other modifications.”
Who inspired you?
“To many artists of the present and past history of Italian and foreign music. Annalisa is my favorite but also Laura Pausini which was the soundtrack of my adolescence or Dua Lipa which I find very interesting. Among the groups I drew inspiration from Purple Disco Machine.”
Are you working on another song at the moment?
“I have a remake/rearrangement of Rose Villain’s Sanremo song “Click Boom!” where I kept the lyrics but changed the arrangement making it more delicate. It’s coming along well and who knows.”
Besides the Academy and teaching singing?
“I took the place of my teacher, Oriana Riccò, and I sing in a folk group “I Monelli”, some karaoke but nothing else. I admit that now I’m focusing on the last exam to finish my journey and then I’ll see how to move into the musical world.”
