Damiano David: “Springsteen and Jagger are calm people”
Continues the solo path of Damiano Davidon break from Maneskin: after the first two singles “Born With A Broken Heart” and “Silverlines” after the announcement of the tour for the late summer/autumn of 2025, the singer is on the cover of the new issue of Vogue, interviewed by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and photographed by Steven Klein.
David talked about moving to Los Angeles to make the new album:
At first, it was really scary. It was a culture shock. And it was difficult to find my place in that city. There are no bars or places with outside seating, nor squares where people gather. It’s a city where you don’t walk, while in Rome you don’t do anything else… also because it takes courage to get around by car. Los Angeles sometimes feels like a desert, it makes you feel a little lonely. I had no background and basically could be whoever I wanted. Because no one knew me. And this allowed me to put aside everything I had done up to that point and build my environment from scratch: new people, new places, new musicians, new authors. And, of course, this was a great inspiration to me.”
But the chat was also an opportunity to talk about meetings with other stars:
I have been lucky enough to meet immense people, sometimes to work with them, and the best are the calmest ones. Bon Jovi is the calmest person ever, but so are Labrinth, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger… Then there are people who are great, not so great, but who are not calm at all. They want to have this aura that’s… fake, it’s a mask. It’s about insecurity, about not having full confidence in your career.”
“I believe that the secret in this work is consistency,” concludes David. “I know who I am as an artist, and if this album flops, it won’t be a verdict on my talent – it will just mean it was the wrong time. I’ll make another album, which will work one day, because I know I’m capable of doing it. So, yes, I would say I’m afraid of falling into the trap of mass production and fame. Because I did it, it happened to me. I was obsessed with it three years ago.”
