The somewhat rock conductor, Enrico Melozzi, who has taken the place of the more classical maestro Beppe Vessicchio, loves Bach, Mozart, and Pino Daniele. For three different reasons. Pino Daniele because he is a great, powerful author, with an immense evocative poetic ability. Every Pino Daniele song corresponds to a movement of a Beethoven symphony.
The Maneskin
To Corriere della Sera, the maestro recounts that the Sanremo Festival changed his life, his popularity. "Yes, especially after the Måneskin, there was a shift. From that moment I entered the collective imagination, I was perceived in a different way. This year I couldn't walk a meter without being stopped to ask me for a photo. I tried to dissuade them: 'this photo is not worth anything, take it with the singers'.
At Corsera, Melozzi also tells about his first encounter with the Måneskin? "We had to wait in a room where there was a pool table, they were playing, I was a bit apart, but at one point they ask me to take a shot. I hit all the possible holes, it had never happened to me in my life. They were shocked. Since then I have never touched a cue again so as not to deny myself". He had the magic touch for Zitti e buoni. "With them, I had carte blanche to make three versions: a basic one, one that pushed without exaggerating, and then one as I wanted. They got really excited with my arrangement: it was smashing, full of strings and notable orchestral virtuosities".
Achille Lauro
Different work with Achille Lauro: "As soon as I hear Rolls Royce, I get chills. I remember the time I went to sleep at his house, it was a multi-storey villa, I was looking for my room but every time I opened a door there were boys playing inside. It wasn't a house, but a factory, a madhouse, with a cook cooking for everyone".
He arranged Ghali's last piece and never fought with Morgan: "He came as a guest to duet with Lauro on Rolls Royce, he had his own idea of arrangement, and everyone ran away, no one felt up to facing him. I was left alone, I was ready for the head-to-head challenge, the duel to the death. I tell him that in my opinion that arrangement was not good. He looks at me and says: it's true, you're right. It was like St. Francis with the wolf. Since then a beautiful friendship was born, he even called me the Berlioz of our days, a big compliment".
The Accident
The dream of Enrico Melozzi, who at 8 years old began to play the piano, risked being extinguished at 11 after a terrible accident. "I was hit by a motorcycle, I woke up inside a car driven by two strangers: the first thing I thought is that they had kidnapped me. I remember the sound of the horn, loud and continuous, I was all broken, blood everywhere, my head open, almost skinned". A very bad accident, with many complications: "I had five operations within a year, the stay lasted almost two. I remember this huge loneliness, first stuck in bed, then in a wheelchair. In that period I isolated myself a lot, but I was already passionate about computers, I had a Commodore Amiga 500: I took a little program, which was the forerunner of the programs I use today, like a Word but to write notes and scores".
Today Enrico Melozzi has made it. Also thanks to his way of being alive and his look: "I spend little time in front of the mirror - he still tells Corriere della Sera - The problem is only managing the hair, which is an entity apart, they have their own tax code, they vote. For the look, I completely rely on those who take care of finding me the most beautiful clothes possible to make a good impression on TV, but in everyday life I dress normally, and usually they don't recognize me. My image is inextricably linked to an elegant dress or a tuxedo".
Love life. "I'm single. I decided not to tie myself to anyone at this time. And I chose not to have children. I don't feel it, I think then I would dedicate so much to them that I would lose music. Maybe I'm also afraid. Not having children keeps me a teenager, while if you become a parent you become big by force".
Meanwhile, he does not lack fans and groupies. "There are the Melox girls, the fan clubs, the fake profiles that sell meetings with me, the FantaSanremo groups: the greatest honor of my life is to have a bonus dedicated to those who have me as a conductor. I'm worth 20 points".
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