The singer-songwriter’s story at Parole ad Arte, an event in Pietrasanta (Lucca), in conversation with Alessandro Giuli
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti he already has one of stories to tell in which he risked his life and got away with it: in 2002 a lung mass measuring approximately 12cm was removed which turned out to be a benign tumor of pleural origin. Now the singer of CCCP he said he had taken a serious risk recently too. Ferretti was in Venice last April 26th. The occasion, a meeting with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. “At a certain point I had a negative feeling, an illness that I know and that I thought I could cure by resting, trying to lie down waiting for it to pass,” the singer-songwriter told Words to Artevent in Pietrasanta (Lucca), in conversation with Alessandro Giuli. “Luckily Buttafuoco didn’t believe me. He called the ambulance, which, being in Venice, arrived by sea. It all happened quickly, the doctors realized that I was having a heart attack and their sudden intervention saved my life”, Ferretti’s words. Death, in fact, which brings him closer. And that brought him closer even as a child: “When I was 4 years old my grandmother told me it was time for me to experience death personally. A relative had passed away. She took me to the wake, she said, ‘Touch it, this is the cold of death, you have to feel it. You have to understand the difference with the heat of life.’ When I was little, funerals marked the existence of a community: now in fact there are no longer funerals where I live, there is no longer a community.”
