Clara, Matteo Paolillo, Raiz: “Sea outside”, from Serie to Talent

As a series of phenomenon especially among the very young a talent shows, which launches new talents or makes characters already established, but perhaps little known by the nationalpopular public, of the pop star.

It is the parable of “Sea outside”, the series focused on the events of the young prisoners and staff of the imaginary criminal institution for Miorenni of Naples, freely inspired by the prison (real) of Nisida. The music, as is known, is very central in history, because it is by writing, composing and producing songs that the young prisoners try to redeem themselves, leaving behind the feuds and crimes for which they ended up behind the bars. There is no surprise, therefore, if in recent years the series – conceived by Cristiana Farina, written with Maurizio Careddu, produced by Rai Fiction and Picomedia: the one just published on Raiplay is the fifth season – both d.also a record phenomenonas well as television: just think that LA acronym, “‘or Mar for”, by the composer Stefano Lentini (his music of the soundtrack), Matteo Paolillo, Lolloflow and Raiz has passed 50 million streams on Spotify, conquering the double platinum disc.

The Matteo Paolillo case

Paolillo, born in 1995, born in Salerno, is only one of the talents launched by “Sea outside”, in which since the first season he played one of the protagonists, Edoardo Contewhich grew in the malfached district of Forcella and prominent member of the Ricci clan. In the fifth season it is not present. Already in recent months the actor and singer had said he was ready for different roles. Active as a record as early as 2021, when he officially made his debut with the “Edo” EP, two years ago He signed a contract with Warner Music and released his album “Come te”, followed last year by “Edo – Last act”, containing duets with Guè, Lda and Raiz. Entering the OTR Live roster, the agency already behind the successes of – among others – Carl Brave, Levante, Ghemon, in addition to Carmen Consoli, Max Gazzè, Daniele Silvestri, Paolillo shot Italy on tour: only a few days ago his participation was announced as Special guest at the second season of “New scene”, the Netflix talent show that aims to discover the future stars of the Italian rap sceneavailable from March 31st. In recent years he has collected 6 platinum records and 2 gold records in all.

The Clara Revelation

Better than him did Clara, a real name Clara Soccini, born in 1999, left from Varese to join the cast of the series directed by Ivan Silvestrini, Carmine Elia and Ludovico Di Martino as secondary characterFor consecrate yourself a little surprise as one of the cast revelations. After winning in 2023 Sanremo Giovani with “Boulevard”, last year he participated in the Sanremo Festival directly among the big names with “Rough diamonds“, That He won a platinum disc and pulled the “first” debut album in the rankings, allowing the Vicenza singer to expand his audience compared to what he had known him thanks to “Sea outside”. Last summer

He also opened the Rey Lana concert The Maura in Milan at the Hippodrome. Back in the race in Sanremo this year with “fever”, co-founded by Madame, he won in everything 5 platinum discs and 6 gold discs With Hit as “Boys outside” and “Origami at dawn”, the song that in the series his character, Crazy J, a young Milanese trapper with a stormy past that brings inside the prison all his overwhelming energy and the desire to make himself known to the world thanks to his music, “stole” precisely to that played by Matteo Paolillo. She too, like Paolillo, is not present in the fifth season.

And Raiz becomes pop star

“Sea outside” also brought luck to Raizthe 57-year-old Almamegretta frontman, among the cult bands of the Italian indie-alternative scene in the 90s, which in the series plays Don Salvatore Ricci, one of the leaders of the families who compete for power. It was he himself, four gold and platinum records won in the last two years with the same “‘or Mar for” and “Ddoje Mane”, to underline, not without irony, to have become in all respects a pop star even among the very young thanks to the Exploit of the series, in which it is involved not only as an actor but also as a co-author of the songs that make up the soundtrack: “I come from the underground, I have always been a niche artist and now I suddenly find myself stopping by young people. The beauty is that I have not changed a comma compared to what I have always been“.

Beyond music

Not only record revelations. “Sea outside” also trampled to the careers of young actors who in recent years, after acting in the series, have taken more or less big satisfactions on TV or in the cinema. As Massimiliano Caiazzoborn in 1996, Carmine Di Salvo in the series, who won a silver ribbon in 2023 for “slowly” by Nicola Prosher and starred in the TV film “Filumena Marturano”, in “Uonderbois” and in “History of my family”. Nicolas Maupasborn in 1998, Filippo Ferrari in “Sea outside”, in addition to winning a silver ribbon last year, recited – among others – in the Rai event miniseries “The count of Montecristo”, directed by Bille August.

Instead .Giacomo GiorgioCiro Ricci in the series, also awarded at the Venice Festival, we saw him in the video of “Come voa” by Geolier, as well as in series as “We are legend”, “Doc” and “Belcanto”.