Claudio Chieffo, an unjustly ignored songwriter
After dedicating an excellent job to Claudio Rocchi (I reviewed it here), the journalist and writer addresses a little “popular” theme: the life and works of Claudio Chieffo, a Christian singer -songwriter who has moved for a long time on parallel roads and separated from those of the mainstream, despite having recorded more than one hundred songs and having kept a few thousands of concerts in his forty years of activity (he disappeared in 2007). The pages of this book are the distillate of meticulous and in -depth research of journalistic sources but above all of dozens of interviews conducted by the author. Who traces a participated and all -round portrait, making (partially) justice to a protagonist too little considered of the Italian songwriting scene – and the Tenco club has the serious fault of having never invited him, for ideological and non -artistic reasons. It would be appropriate to think of a prize in memory, late but necessary, perhaps inviting some of the voices present in the beautiful discussion (Lindo Ferretti, Omar Pedrini, Luca Carboni, Massimo Bubola, Paolo Fresu …).
Here is a conversation with Walter Gatti on his book and Claudio Chieffo.
