Sing up to ten: music is an instrument of union and resonance

Sing up to ten It is not only a collective of songwriters united in the effort to affirm a space for women in the music scene, but also a model to be aspired to relate to others, in the sign of sharing and support, not of the frantic competition. From 2021 Anna Castiglia, Cheriach Re, Frankly, Irene Buselli and Rossana De Pace they travel together on stage on stage and cities in the city with five microphones and one guitarsharing songs and values. Together they created a real movement, interesting, real, non -rhetorical, which has also become megaphone for other artists. On May 8 at the Apollo Milano at 9 pm A special date will be staged in which the collective will expand, giving space to other voices again. Besides five other founders there will be Andera, Kyoto, Sirlane, Sarafine and Sara Santi dei Queen of Sabain addition to the poetry of Gloria Riggio.

Birth

“Sing up to ten was born four years ago Turin Because we all gravitated in the city, we liked it right away and we decided to collaborate – recalls Irene Buselli – but the project actually enters In action after Covid when the places for the show do not reopen or in any case are treated with disparity compared to other spaces. We launch the ‘out of place’ initiative: not being able to play on the stages, provocatively we perform standing on the seats of public transport, but we realize How this initiative is told by the media full of stereotypes of the type ‘women play them’ or ‘women songwriters go to the attack’. We realized that a very strong cultural work was also needed to be accompanied by the project“. He passes time and sings up to ten grinds kilometers also by calculating important stages such as those of Eurovision Village (Turin, 2022), of the Turin New Year (Piazza Castello, 2023), of the Auditorium Agnelli with Vinicio Capossela (Turin, 2023) and Milan Pride (June 2024).

Against stereotypes

“Everything trying to offer several signs, primarily of union between women – Buselli continues – We sing together, but we are all different, another important element. And then, we have always wanted to transmit credibility. It happened to all, for example, that the technicians asked us: ‘Can you ask your guitarist the technical data sheet?’, not thinking that the guitarist could be the singer -songwriter to whom he is asking him. These are signs that something does not work in general perception, there is a problem at the base “. Being together on stage is the metaphor of the collective, whose intentions are of sharing and representation: The songs of each are sung to multiple voices and the instruments pass from hand in hand, making music an instrument of union and resonance. “The date of Milan will follow this philosophy and widen its borders – anticipates Buselli – we will have other songwriters with us, so we will metaphorically pass our megaphone. There will never be less than five artists on stage also in this case. The idea is precisely to take a space all together in the hope that this may be the first stage of something bigger. We are all different from us, we come from multiple parts of Italy, we believe that to try to somehow represent a world there can be no multiplicity“.

Guests

The guests of the evening: Andera She is a 24 -year -old queer singer -songwriter. His fourth single has recently come out, “eyes to the sky”, which tells his unconventional love story and those who seek in vain to hinder it; Kyoto It is the solo musical project of Roberta Russo, singer -songwriter, drummer, producer and performer born in 1996, grown between Monza and Bari, where he currently lives; Sarafineshe is a Calabrian singer -songwriter and producer. After a first course as a singer and guitarist folk, he lives for many years between Belgium and Luxembourg, where his style evolves contaminating himself with the typical electronic sounds of Northern Europe. In 2023 he won the edition of X Factor Italia with the song “Sick of joy”. In 2024 he published his first EP, “a trauma is forever”. And again: Sara Santi It is performer and activist. With the Queen of Saba project, electro-pop duo, he released two self-produced albums and is currently on tour. In Turin he co-founded the “The Nerve” cabaret queer. Sirlaneclass 93, born in San Paolo do Brasil, raised in Italy, with music wants to get naked and reflect on inequalities. There is also Gloria Riggioborn in Agrigento, born in 2000, is the Italian champion of Poetry Slam 2023, the youngest and first women’s author in national history.