’Mi sono innamorata di te’’ omaggio a Ornella Vanoni e Mina a Modugno

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"I fell in love with you" - a tribute to Ornella Vanoni and Mina in Modugno

Emanuele Lucente Community Hall, Modugno
Viale della Repubblica SN, Modugno, Bari
Entrance: 10 euros
Ticket info: 349 4297693
Organization: As communication Corato

"I fell in love with you"
Stefania Dipierro - vocals
Piero Vincenti - piano and synth
Fabio Accardi - drums

Stefania Dipierro, accompanied by the eclectic pianist Piero Vincenti and drummer Fabio Accardi, brings to life a musical retrospective on two important voices and icons of Italian song: Mina and Ornella Vanoni, born in 1940 and 1934 respectively, and still active today. These two women have spanned decades of social and cultural change from the late 1950s to today, serving as a reference point for the female image in Italy and around the world. Both performers have strong personalities, both in life and in their art, with artistic paths that are different yet parallel. Both directed by great Masters, they embodied with their voices repertoires of Italian, Brazilian, and jazz light music, opening doors that we still strive to keep open today.

Mina, the screamer, wanted to sing and would star almost by chance, in 1958 at just 18 years old, at La Bussola in Viareggio while on vacation with her parents. Her first hit would come the following year with the song “Nessuno.” In 1960, she confirmed her rise with "Il cielo in una stanza" by Gino Paoli.

Ornella, the intellectual, said she was a girl invented by others, almost by chance. From Giorgio Strehler's theater where, in 1956, she debuted as an actress in Pirandello's play "Six Characters in Search of an Author." Continuing in theater, she began to sing, starting with the songs of the ‘mala’ until she met Gino Paoli in 1960, who wrote the famous "Senza fine" for her.

In fact, the singer-songwriter Gino Paoli is woven into the music of both, as is Luigi Tenco who, in 1962, wrote and published “Mi sono innamorato di te.” Mina would perform it from a female perspective with the title "Mi sono innamorata di te" in a medley on the episode of Canzonissima on November 9, 1968, with the orchestra conducted by Bruno Canfora.

Also in 1968, the song was covered by Ornella Vanoni for her sixth LP "Ai miei amici cantautori" in a duet version with the pianist and arranger Pino Calvi.

In this reinterpretation, Stefania Dipierro has chosen to sing those tracks that inspired and shaped her, recalling a sort of background soundtrack to her life. Tracks where the connection to Brazilian music, which characterized both, emerges as well as the intensity of the voice in conveying nuances of feelings.

Music is born by chance, like love. That "I had nothing to do" by Tenco is precisely the temporal space where everything can change.

In the early 2000s, shortly after moving from Bari to Rome, Stefania Dipierro met Antonello Vannucchi - a historic pianist for Mina and Vanoni - and together they formed the duo Connections: Italia – Brasil, drawing heavily from the Brazilian repertoires sung in Italian by the two Italian stars.

In the intimate and flowing setting of the trio, Stefania Dipierro and her long-time companions - who have played together since the times of the Fez in the 90s - take us back to the songs of the 60s and 70s from "Senza fine" to "Il Cielo in una Stanza," "Sapore di sale," "L’appuntamento," "Dettagli," "Samba della Rosa," "Che cosa c’è," "Io so che ti amerò," "La Voglia e La Pazzia" - from the album with Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho -, "Amarsi un po'" – from the LP 1986 with Elian Elias, Lee Konitz, and George Benson -, to "Non illuderti," "Sacundi Sacunda," "Mille Bolle Blu," "La banda," "E se domani," "Nessuno," "L’importante è finire," "Mi sei scoppiato dentro al cuore" - with lyrics by director Lina Wertmuller who instead wrote "Tutta la gente del mondo" for Vanoni -, "La pioggia di Marzo," "Mi sono innamorata di te" …

Stefania Dipierro is a versatile singer, author and composer, a communicative performer with an avant-garde touch in the fields of jazz, Brazilian popular music –MPB-, Italian, soul, rock, and electronic music, with 5 million downloads and 15K monthly listeners on Spotify. She was named the 'Brazilian Sade' by the English magazine All About Jazz. In her latest discographic works, she has focused on essential themes: Love in the LP "Dichiarazioni d’Amore" 2021 Incipit Records/Egea Music – featuring the poet and apologist Franco Arminio and the launch video with the track "Fiore nel deserto" produced by Alessandro Piva's Seminal Film - Peace in the LP "Stefania Dipierro & the Paz Community: Base Terra" 2018 Incipit Records/Egea Music - PAZ from Portuguese Peace - and Nature in the LP "Nicola Conte presents Stefania Dipierro: Natural" 2016 FarOutRecordings UK, an album that topped Spotify's Brazilian charts for weeks.

Having grown up studying piano from the age of 5 and listening to RCA records at home, Stefania was enchanted when the Tigress of Cremona appeared on TV. Her future reserved special encounters like in the early 2000s, shortly after she moved from Bari to Rome, where she was introduced to Antonello Vannucchi - Mina and Vanoni's historic pianist - and together they formed the duo Connections: Italia – Brasil, drawing heavily from the Brazilian repertoires sung in Italian by the two Italian stars. Highlights of that decade include tours with Alessandro Alessandroni, the famous whistler for Maestro Ennio Morricone. In the summer of 2015, she dueted with actor Claudio Santamaria for two concerts of his 'Un estate fa' tour.

For 2022/23, the project "Stefania sings Mina," directed by Maestro Paolo Lepore with the JSO and Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce OLES, was sold out in all theaters – Abeliano, Forma, Politeama ...

Stefania has a discography full of features for numerous Italian and international labels - Right Tempo, Schema, Emi …- with three solo albums – FarOut Rec UK and Incipit Rec IT -. She is mentioned in the book "Cantautori e Cantautrici del Nuovo Millennio Il Dizionario" - 1966 biographies, 10,000 records by Michele Neri, director of the music magazine VINILE, Iacobelli Publisher 2023.

In 'Erba d’Annata' by writer Aldo Pagano - ed. PIEMME 2023 - the protagonist Emma Bonsanti - deputy prosecutor from the previous series of books "Candy from Strangers," "Family Motives" ... – listens to the songs of Stefania Dipierro, including "Ok, ci sto" and "Inutil Paisagem."

An internationally profiled artist active since the 90s, she sings, leads her bands, and features from duo to Symphony Orchestra, with: N. Conte, F. Bosso, K. Carpenter, C. Santamaria, A. Alessandroni - whistle of E. Morricone-, M. Mario Raja, Orchestra of Manerbio, M° P. Lepore and JSO, Marcos Valle, Claudio Coccoluto, A. Vannucchi, P. Vincenti & F. Accardi, M. Signorile, G. Partipilo, R. Casarano, N. Miranda, Les Hommes, M. Bardoscia, V. Abbracciante, …

Main venues: Teatro Nacional Havana Cuba, Venice Film Festival, North Sea Jazz – Amsterdam, Plano B – Porto, Southern Soul Festival – Montenegro, Jazz Café Camden London, Casa del Jazz Rome, Madre Museum Naples, Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Locus Festival Locorotondo, Spazio Murat Bari, supperClub Rome Amsterdam Bodrum …

Her records, also produced with the support of Puglia Sounds, are backed by official music videos, reviews, and interviews from the most authoritative publications: Musica Jazz, la Repubblica, Rainews24, Rai1 Stereonotte, Sky Arte …

In her music videos, her dialogue with contemporary art stands out, as she is seen building and breaking down a wall, carrying flowers and weights, dancing in a circle with Mirko Signorile.

She teaches singing and musical workshops with her project VocALItà in Kandinsky’s Vocal Geometries.