When Annalisa sang in a metal band in provincial bunkers

Today it is a queen of Italian pop pop, which with hits such as “male”, “mon amour”, “sincerely” millions of listening on the streaming platforms, scales the rankings, collects platinum discs on platinum discs and conquers millions of clicks on Tiktok between ballets and anything else. But that of Annalisa It was not an exploit resulting from a pair of individual spotlights, but a leap at the top made after taking a long run -up. Starting from a bunker under a bowel field of Savona even in 2008, where the raw talent of the versatile Annalisa Scarrone – A past as a chorister in the Bruni orchestra of Cuneo and Vocalist next to the bassist and double bass player Dino Cerruti, experiences with which he began his studies with the Jazz singer Danila Betragno, his teacher, even before the participation in “Amici” – he met the Metal band of lenoire. Yes, you read that right: There was a time when Annalisa sang in a metal band.

“I have a little nostalgia for those years, a period in which many things were built and of which I keep memories and beautiful moments. But it is a positive nostalgia, in the sense that I never look back with sadness,” he would have remembered that phase of his career when the success had already made him a star of Italian pop, between gold and platinum discs and Sanremo successes. Even before joining the Lenoire, who before his entry were called Malvasia, Annalisa had carried out for years together with DJ Savonese Carlo Poliano – who today makes the beaches of Palma de Mallorca dance – the project of Elaphe Gutta (The name is a tribute to the binomial nomenclautura of the so -called “wheat snake”, widespread in the USA), with the pseudonym of Isà. Between Lounge, electronics and trip hop The duo had also managed to appear in some foreign compilations with songs such as “Winter’s Cold” and “Words”, publishing the album in 2006 “Blue trip”: Today is Considered a cult for those who started following Annalisa in the afternoon of the tenth edition of the talent show conducted by Maria De Filippi And thanks to the network he later (re) discovered the singer’s musical past. On Discogsthe site where enthusiasts from all over the world sell and buy records, there are a couple of copies of the CD on sale for 40 euros each. A few songs was loaded on YouTube, of course not officially.

If thanks to the collaboration with the Savonese DJ Annalisa he had shown a great versatility, with the Lenoire he offered an even greater proof of his potential. To review today the videos of the singer’s performances together with the Lenoire on the stages of the Rooms symbol of the independent live circuit of the Ligurian province – starting from Ju-Bamboo of Savonawhich would be closed in 2013 after hosting concerts for twenty -five years and having become a local reference point only to be converted in 2019 in a disco, The Tube – Annalisa seems to be another person compared to what a few years later would have presented himself to the auditions of “Friends”before finding himself singing on the stage of the Ariston theater, the temple of Italian music par excellence, ballads as “a window among the stars”, “the universal flood” and “the world before you”. Unlike the experience with the Guttata Elaphe, of which a phonographic track remains, of the period spent with the Lenoires, in the hours in the room, rehearsals and kilometers ground in the van, few tracks remain after years. The video you find below, in which Annalisa ventures together with the Lenoire in A cover of Pj Harvey’s “A Perfect Day Elise”is taken from a concert on the stage of the Ju-Bamboo of February 2008, two years before the entrance of the Ligurian singer in the most popular school in Italy, that of “Friends”. And he gives us back a decidedly far Annalisa from the prototype of the typical participant of the Talent Show of Canale 5.

In May 2012, in the wake of the first post-talent successes of the singer, from “Diamante lei e Luce he” to “Without reserve”, an album entitled “The origins” should have come out, on the Edel Music label. The disc should have contained songs engraved by Annalisa together with the Savonese band of the Lenoires, with which he had collaborated before participating in the talent. But The publication of the disc was canceled. Today Annalisa is pop, self-ironic, unscrupulous and sexy as never before: “Before ‘friends’ I was very angry, it seemed that I struggled to tell things directly and therefore I was looking for complexity. Once everything is removed and the white sheet remains, you can allow yourself to build something new”.