Francesca Michielin opens for Duran Duran: “It was an honor”
“An evening that I will not forget. Thanks Rome for the incredible welcome, thanks Duran Duran, it was an honor”: so Francesca Michielin thanks Duran Duran for choosing her as the opening artist of the first of their two Roman shows, last night at the Circus Maximus. The singer -songwriter of Bassano del Grappa warmed the 13 thousand spectators of the ancient Roman stadium with a set that saw her perform, among other songs, also her latest single “Francesca”, just released. “Sometimes the explanations are not needed, what is really important is to live intensely the moment and the emotions that you feel and sing them fully lungs. Yesterday it happened, I was there, at that moment, and in no other side. To enjoy all the beauty”, added Michielin, who then naturally remained to attend the concert of the band led by Simon Le Bon, who transformed the Circus Maximus into an open -air disco with the 80s. Hit as “Rio”, “The Wild Boys”, “Notorious”.
“Francesca” has marked a restart for Francesca Michielin’s career, inaugurating her new artistic journey, pending the concert -event “Michielin30 – all in one night”, with which on 4 October at the Arena in Verona will retrace With friends and colleagues the most significant moments of his first 30 years of life, half of whom lived on the stage. “This song marks for me a new beginning, an important step towards the rediscovery of myself. I have been on this journey since I was 16 years old and in all this time I have changed a thousand times. But today I feel the deep need to stop and ask myself who I really want to be as an artist. I want to be authentic, sincere with those who listen to me and above all with myself,” said the former winner of X Factor presenting the song, of which he has just published the official video clip. by Margherita Buy.
Francesca Michielin recently signed an article on the thirty years of “Jagged Little Pill” for Rockol, the album that in 1995 made Alanis Morissette one of the most powerful rock voices of her generation as well as a model for many young songwriters arrived later: “He is a feminist album in his naturalness and in his communicative power. Perhaps these 30 years of ‘small and misunderstood pills’, Infinite, they should inspire us to return to make music because we have something natural and instinctive to say, because we could not help but this, with less patterns and less algorithms in the lead.
