Superluna, Together with you I’m fine: Samurai Jay talks about himself with…
Samurai Jaycompeting in Sanremo with the song “Ossessione”, and the conductor Enzo Campagnoli are today’s guests, February 25th, of Martina Martorano for the new appointment with “I’m fine with you“, the Superluna vodcast that illuminates the Festival from a rarely told perspective: that of the teams. Every morning of the Sanremo week, a competing artist is the protagonist of the episode together with a key person from his team to tell two points of view on the same vortex.
To open the meeting Martina invites the guests to introduce themselves to each other. Maestro Campagnoli introduces Gennaro Amatore, aka Samurai Jay: “This boy is a wonderful discovery, it is truly the essence of Neapolitanism that wants to arrive. The Neapolitan must come from sacrifice, he must dispel clichés and do many somersaults in order to obtain results.” He adds: “In him I discovered a serious, determined, intelligent boy, who is building his artistic life based on values, including family values. His mom is his biggest fan. He always encouraged him, even in moments of difficulty. She always told him ‘Don’t worry, just keep going because then the sun will come. And the sun has come for him, and I’m really very happy.”
For his part, Samurai Jay introduced Enzo Campagnoli as follows: “In him I found first and foremost an artistic father. The Ariston is a stage that makes you anxious. I was already anxious about the rehearsals in Rome. Thanks to him, I always calm down. Now that I have become a little familiar with the orchestra, every time I am at my station I turn towards the Maestro, who It always calms me down“. Continues: “For me, humanity is at the base, it comes first. I couldn’t have been more human than Enzo.”
During “Together with you I’m fine”, Martina then invited Samurai Jay to remember the moment in which he discovered he was competing in Sanremo: “Until Carlo Conti announced my name among the competing artistsI saw myself outside. It’s not that I’m pessimistic and that with something so big, I want everything to hit my face suddenly”, says the artist: “At the time of the announcement I was in Mugnano with my relatives and then I bought drinks for the whole town by making an appointment on social media at the bar under my house”. Gennaro then talks about his relationship with the orchestra: “In middle school I studied guitar and played with the orchestra, but that was the only experience before now”.
Enzo Campagnoli is then asked what the task of a Maestro is, who on the arrangement for “Ossessione” explains: “The interesting thing is take these songs, which already have their own root, a nature and a mission, and put the evening dress on them. Which in this case is that of the symphony orchestra for the Ariston”. He continues: “This piece already has a strength and the work was not to distort it, leaving it what it needs, but giving it some ornaments”.
