Renato Zero announces a covers album (and sings the first two)

Renato Zero returns to sing other people’s songs. Twenty-five years after “Tutti gli Zeri del mondo” the King of Sorcini is planning a covers album for release in 2025. The announcement, surprisingly, came at the end of the 38 appointments throughout Italy of his tour “Self-portrait – The Event Concerts”when between Sunday and Monday Renato Zero greeted the audience of his Rome with the last two dates of the tour. During the final shows the singer-songwriter anticipated the release (“calmly, against today’s blenders”) of the project, which will contain reinterpretations of songs that are part of his musical education and passion. Zero, who in 2000 in “Tutti gli Zeri del mondo” paid homage – among others – to Fabrizio De André with “La canzone di Marinella”, Luigi Tenco with “Vedrai,spetti” and “Lontano, far”, Lucio Battisti and Mogol with “Also for you”, Umberto Bindi with “Our concert” and Franco Califano with “Music is over”, he said:

The new album will be released with a certain serenity, not immediately, because what really matters is having a candid soul, and having it spontaneously, without maneuvers: I wanted to deposit my soul in the grooves of these songs”.

As an appetizer for what is to come, in indefinite times, the Roman singer-songwriter performed two previews of the album: “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” Of Elton John And “Redemption Song” Of Bob Marley & The Wailers.

Both songs have lyrics in Italian.

I have always kept within me the need to recover the musical, literary and cultural richness atmospheres that great artists such as Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Whitney Houston, The Four Seasons, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Nat King Cole gave me , Frank Sinatra and many others who seemed distant from my appetite and knowledge.
With this new project I wanted to take a look at the international panorama and decided to give these absolute geniuses of music my modest work as a writer: I started from the music that most linked me to these artists and rewrote the lyrics from scratch to tailor them to myself, so that they were my size, taking great care to respect the original composers and authors
Renato Zero.

While waiting for the complete album, Renato Zero’s two versions of the songs presented in Rome they will be available digitally from Friday 15 November and for the Christmas holidays, also on a special vinyl.