Tenco Award 2024, the first evening: Plaques, guests and live
The curtain rises on the 2024 edition of the Premio Tenco, the event dedicated to songwriting which this year celebrates the important milestone of 50 years. Tonight, October 17th, it takes place on the prestigious stage of the Ariston Theater in Sanremo (Imperia) the first of three culminating events of the event, introduce yourself from Francesco Centotrame and Antonio Silva.
Tenco 2024 license plates
After him appointments scheduled in the afternoona debate on the songwriting “First national meeting of quality music reviews and awards” and the concert by Giovanni Block, the first evening of the Tenco Prize 2024 is dedicated to License plates. The awards, awarded since 1984 to “The best records of the year” by Canzone d’Autore published during the year, reward for this edition works made available to the public from 1 June 2023 to 31 May 2024.
“I am amazed by this recognition and being here is a great privilege,” he says Paolo Benvegnùwinner with “It’s useless to talk about love” as “Best album ever”: “Inside the EP ‘Solo Fiori’ and the album ‘It’s useless to talk about love’ there is a logic of resistanceif we start from the condition that the origin of the word ‘love’ derives from the Latin ‘a-mors’ – that is, without death. Words sometimes speak decently and explain themselves in a specific way.”
The “Best album by a performer”, however, is “Hasta Siempre Mercedes” Of Simona Molinarihis homage to the Argentine musician Mercedes Sosa. “I wanted to create a poetic record that could caress and embrace the listener, and, why not, inspire him towards this music”, explains the musician.
“My land” by Diodatowhich celebrates the resilience and determination of the people of Taranto inspired by the story of the myth of its foundation, is the “Best Single Song”.
“Assamanù” by Setak is the “Best album in dialect”: “It means ‘in this way, in this way. I’m made like this, take it or leave it'”, says the guitarist and singer-songwriter from Abruzzo whose pseudonym is a reference to his family’s nickname: “lu setacciar”
Elisa Ridolfi is rewarded thanks to “Curami l’anima” as “Best debut album”: “I don’t feel like a singer, but life led me to sing”, she explains, underlining how she went from fado to this job: “I have a transformative identity and I couldn’t be a fadist all my life!”.
“I’ll be Franco – Unreleased songs by Califano” produced by Alberto Zeppieri wins the Targa Tenco as “Best Project Album”: “One day I met Frank Del Giudice who told me about this metaphorical ‘safe'”, says the record producer: “Some material came out that was still incomplete, missing parts of the lyrics or the development of the idea, and I I imagine myself as a mosaic artist, who must find the right piece to place where a piece is missing, but also thinking in the present, in 2024 with new technology”.
The guests
On stage, with the scenography designed by Valerio Berruti, the protagonists are the winners of the Targhe Tengo and, in addition to Tullio De Piscopowho was awarded the “I sounds of song” prize, the first evening of the event also sees the guests Francesco Tricarico and Michele Staino with Gianni Coscia and Fabrizio Mocata. This last trio is at Tenco to pay homage to Sergio Staino (journalist, cartoonist and director who was President of Club Tenco until his death in 2023), to whom a special issue of the “Songwriter” is also dedicated, entitled “Il Cantastaino – Friend, the meeting is the life of art” with a record. The concert scheduled for tomorrow 18 October is also dedicated to Sergio Staino, “Bobo song”, scheduled from 6pm at theFormer Santa Brigida church.
9.00 pm – Ariston Theatre
1st Evening of the Songwriting Review – presented by Francesco Centorame and Antonio Silva
Paolo Benvegnù (Targa Tenco) – Tullio De Piscopo (Premio “I sono della canzone”) – Diodato (Targa Tenco) – Simona Molinari (Targa Tenco) with Special Guest Cosimo Damiano Damato – Elisa Ridolfi (Targa Tenco) – Setak (Targa Tenco) ) – Gianni Coscia, Fabrizio Mocata and Michele Staino – Francesco Tricarico – Alberto Zeppieri (Targa Tenco).
