Madonna and Police: Cristina Scabbia’s adolescence albums

Engaged in promoting the new album of the Gamuna Coil, entitled “Sleepless Empire“And published last February 14 (here our interview and here our review), the frontwoman of the Milanese metal band has retraced to” Loudwire “his years as a teenager e he told five albums that he loved most at that time.

Although in adulthood the singer has become An icon of the Gothic Metalthe sounds and styles that have marked His training years were actually quite far from Heavy music. Among the records indicated by Cristina Scabbia as some of her favorites, the second album of the US rapper stand out Ice-t“Power“of 1988, and the third study work of the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre“Équinoxe“From 1978. Next to these, the female voice of the Coil Glacs also indicates the second record project of Madonna“Like a Virgin“of 1984, and”Rio” of the Duran Duran of 1982, in addition to the third album of Police of 1980 “Mondatta Mondatta“.

“Ice-T was one of the first rappers to hypnotize me“, explains Cristina Scabbia about” Power “:” My knowledge of English was extremely scarce, so rethinking the fact that I tried to reproduce deep texts by singing in an invented English (discovering only years after they really meant) is one Strange thing. I loved his voice and music seemed powerful and fresh for my young years“.

On “Équinoxe“by Jean-Michel Jarre, the singer therefore says:” An incredibly evocative instrumental album, a totally psychedelic journey. As a teenager I spent hours lying on the floor of my room to listen to it. Even today I happen to listen to it and I continue to love the feeling of creating mental images as I listen to it “.

In remembering the period linked to listening to “Like a Virgin“, Scabbia tells:”I was a teenager who listened and looked at a powerful womanwho was not afraid to show himself proud and dominantly. I remember that my friend and I tried to imitate her style in our home choreography, wearing pieces of lace as decorations on the head and small pacifiers as earrings “.

“Music in the rankings was at his qualitative peak when bands like the Duran Duran played real tools and were also incredible live. Their album Rio changed the rules of the game”, is the declaration of Cristina Scabbia on “Rio“:”My room was full of Duran Duran postersI was madly in love with their music. I was particularly obsessed with John Taylor, so much so that I decided to make myself the same cut with the blonde fringe frown … I was very bad, haha! “.

Then revealing that he was enchanted by “Mondatta Mondatta“, The frontwoman of the Glacuna Coil says:” Songs like ‘de do do do, de da da’ and ‘don’t stand so close to me’ they have greatly expanded my musical horizons as a teenager And I will always be grateful to my brother Andrea for having made us discover. I had never heard anything like this before and was enchanted “.

Returning from the publication of the new album, and Dil Tour in Ireland and the United Kingdom of last autumn, the band is ready to undertake a new tour in South America and the United Statesthen return in Europe. Italy is also one of the stages of the tour, which in our part It includes a date in Lignano Sabbiadoro on June 15 at the opening of the in Flames and the Lucca Summer Festival with Till Lindemann of the Rammstein on July 6, before the show at the Alcatraz in Milan on 10 October.