“Yesterday, as you saw, the five winners of the Tenco Prize were released. Despite having received many votes from many of the jurors, whom I thank one by one, ‘Na notte infame’ is not included. There are rumors that these votes were not taken at all into consideration. If that were the case, I ask myself: ‘why?'”. Piotta, born Tommaso Zanello, writes it on his social channels, asking for explanations from the promoters of the Prize themselves: “If Club Tenco – Premio Tenco could give us the motivation – writes the rapper and record producer – it would demonstrate great transparency, out of respect of the entire project, also given the motivations from which it was born and of all the journalists who vote”, concludes the artist.
The five finalists of the Targhe Tenco 2024 – the prize awarded since 1984 to ‘The best albums of the year’ of songwriting published during the year, which will be held on 17, 18 and 19 October at the Ariston Theater in Sanremo – they see in the running for ‘Best album ever’: Paolo Benvegnù with ‘It’s useless to talk about love’; Vasco Brondi with ‘A sign of life’; Calcutta with ‘Relax’; La Crus with ‘Protect me from what I want’; Daniele Silvestri with ‘Disco X’. For the category ‘Best album in dialect’ (or minority language spoken in Italy), five appear: Eleonora Bordonaro with ‘Roda’; Mesudì -with ‘Knots’; Setak with ‘Assamanù’; Massimo Silverio with ‘Hrudja’; Davide Van De Sfroos with ‘Manoglia’.
And again: the ‘Best first work album’ (first long-lasting album by the owner, singer-songwriter or group): Coanda with ‘Le vite altri’; Marta Del Grandi with ‘Selva’; Lamante with ‘In memoria’; Elisa Ridolfi with ‘Curami l’anima’ and Andrea Satta with ‘Nothing new except you’. For ‘Best Performer Album’: Joe Barbieri with ‘Vulío’; Simona Molinari with ‘Hasta Siempre Mercedes’; Alberto Patrucco with ‘AbBrassens’; Disturbance with ‘La Buona Novella’ (live); Chiara Raggi and Giovanna Famulari with ‘In Punta di Corde’ and Agnese Valle with ‘I mia ordini’.
For the ‘Best single song’ award (the award goes to the authors of the song), the top five sees: ‘La fioraia’ by Agnese Valle; ‘My land’ by Diodato; ‘The promise of happiness’ by Federico Sirianni; ‘The Ocean’ by Paolo Benvegnù; ‘The man in the flash’ by Paolo Jannacci and Stefano Massini. Competing for ‘Best project album’ are: 17 red threads + 1 – Remembering Piazza Fontana; Words liberated vol. 2; I will be Franco – Unreleased songs by Califano; Shahida – Traces of freedom; Seasons. Tribute to Massimo Volume.
