In high school, Daniele Silvestri joined a Duran Duran tribute band, all thanks to a 'lady' keyboard. 'A Yamaha DX7 - he tells Corriere della Sera - For those who played, it was a dream and it cost a lot of money. When they found out, the band boys took me on board without even an audition.' From there, a career spanning 30 years. A career to celebrate with 30 concerts, all at the Parco della Musica, in Rome.
He will climb onto the stage of the Circus Maximus with his lifelong friends Niccolò Fabi and Max Gazzè, and Paola Cortellesi wanted his song 'A bocca chiusa' in her first film as a director 'C'è ancora domani'. 'When they invited me to see it I found myself in tears. Paola worked some magic and gave my song a new meaning.'
When he was little, he and his dad spoke in rhymes. 'It was a game, I must have been 4 or 5 years old. It became a skill exercise that allowed me, years later, to have a trade in hand'. Although he owes his musical career to his mother Emanuela. 'With her I saw a lot of musicals in England: 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. As a young woman, she sang. She was on stage when Pupi Avati felt sick and was replaced by Lucio Dalla with his clarinet'. The same Lucio Dalla, years later, 'sent me the first telegram to congratulate me when he heard me in Sanremo with 'L'uomo col megafono'. His words and the Tenco award convinced me that I could do this job'.
His father worked with Maurizio Costanzo for his show. 'Maurizio had the ability to notice everything, to grasp even the intimate things of a person, it almost scared me. It happened when he was on the show but also if you went to the trattoria with him. I never talked to him much, he always had to do with my father, but if he turned his attention to me he immediately identified the problem'.
His first Sanremo Festival, in 1995, with 'L'uomo col megafono', with Pippo Baudo as artistic director. Then the collaboration with Camilleri: 'We went to record at his house. A very generous man, pleasant, splendid'. Then also with Gino Paoli: 'Good evening Mr. Paoli, I am Daniele Silvestri'. And he: 'Who?'. This phone call was recorded in 'la chatta', a parody of 'La gatta'. Did it go like this? 'More or less. He knew who I was: one of the many boys who came much after him. I didn't know him, I had to ask him for permission for his song, they had warned me: 'It's hard to pin him down'. Instead, he even came to the studio to record the skit and to sing his distorted song. He had fun'.
A big fan of Roma and father of three children: Pablo, Santiago and Oliver: 'Surely, like perhaps everyone, I made mistakes, I was not always present as I would have liked with them, but I know I was in many other moments, fortunately. Sometimes they make me angry, it's normal. But we love each other very much, I think my children love me almost as much as I love them'.
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