Tommaso Paradiso, his new album seems to respond to current developments.
“It’s definitely a record that’s more open to the joy of life. Almost a reaction.”
It’s called Casa Paradiso.
“At home for me there is not only family, there are all the people I love.”
Your ideal home?
“Well now my hobby is looking for and looking at houses. Ideally my dream house is a place with soft lights, with a dog, an old frying pan, a comfortable sofa, a fireplace of love.”
In fact, the ten-song Casa Paradiso, preceded at radio by the singles Leave me a po’ and Forse, is a new direction from the 42-year-old singer-songwriter whose style is both instantly recognizable and unique in the endless map of cliché-ridden urban pop. The challenge for those who have already released 8 albums and want to make more is not to always give the same thing to their listeners, but to maintain the same identity. In essence, he said, “if I watch a Tarantino or Scorsese film, I want to see a film by Tarantino or Scorsese, not a film by Zemeckis.” And there is a lot of cinema in songs like Spettacolo and in light songs like Goditela or Anyway it’s great, there is also a reflection of an Italian comedy, of its great passion. A true Roman and gentle too in his ways, Tommaso Paradiso made himself known with Thegiornalisti but grew as a soloist with the ups and downs of each singer-songwriter’s compositions, yet bears testimony to a musical writing faithful to tradition but never filled with copy-paste nostalgia. the desire to highlight more than usual. to take the listener into the space of his life and how he deals with it. And on a scooter that, yes, “has become a passion, I have discovered its beauty, I use it all the time”.
Will he also get on the scooter when Carlo Conti announces the cast of Sanremo?
“No, I already know that I will be on the train at that time on Sunday.”
He is at the top of the favorites list.
Sooner or later statistically I have to go there, who knows if it will happen this year or next year or the year after that.
Several years ago he said he would never leave.
“I say that at the Song Festival the song should win and not all of us have supersonic voices. But I’m a big fan of the Festival which is the red carpet of Italian music. There used to be two fixed events every year, the Festival and the slogan. Now it’s just the Festival, which is our Oscar night. During that week, my house becomes a tent city full of friends and I make food every night.”
What do you think of Carlo Conti?
“Well, you only need to look at last year’s Festival to understand that it has singer-songwriter oriented tastes.”
This is why everyone nominated him to take part in the race.
“But my real challenge today is to tour and fill as many arenas as possible (first date April 15 in Gorizia, then Rome, Milan, Turin etc for two weeks – ed.)”.
No stadium?
“This stadium trend was born, but now I see Vasco, Ultimo, Cremonini clearly…”.
There is also a mode to always announce sold out events.
“But things are changing a little bit for the better.”
You have just become a father.
“But there are no songs about it on the record because I’ve already written them all. But I probably will.”
He wrote for many artists, never for Ornella Vanoni.
“I was unlucky to know him only a little, I wrote the introduction to the film about him, Senza is fine by Elisa Fuksas”.
Tommaso Paradiso is not a politically “engaged” singer-songwriter.
“Maybe in the seventies it was easier. I respect the principle of relevance, I talk about what I know best.”
Yesterday was a day against violence against women.
“I feel like boys often no longer feel that it is wrong to commit violence against women.”
Paradiso, do you miss Thegiornalisti?
“NO”.
You are one of the standard bearers of the so-called Italian “indie”.
“This term is basically used to denote the new generation of singer-songwriters like me, Brunori Sas, Dente, Gazzelle”.
At Casa Paradiso what is the elixir of calm?
“Let’s say watching films like Totò, Peppino and bad girls for me is like drinking Aulin to feel better.”
