interview
Furia
First album of Furia, composed
of thirteen songs, is called Canta-
storie. Furia is a modern storytel-
ler who supports his words and his
music with visual narratives that
are split of reality in which she is
the narrating voice, an I who clo-
sely observes the incident, giving
us a poetic account of the facts,
deeds and gestures of the feelings
of today’s generation and of the
past.
How did you get to this first al-
bum?
Thanks to a great Italian lyricist,
Maestro Luigi Albertelli. We met
two years ago, during rehearsals
for a theatrical show. I played Patty
Pravo’s songs, including one writ-
ten by him. He liked my interpre-
tation and he proposed to become
my producer. Among other things
is also the author, as well as many
Italian successes, also Furia caval-
lo del West, and my name is Tania
Furia. Destiny wanted me to meet
him and start our artistic partner-
ship. A year of intense work to
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get my part out of the author that
I honestly did not even believe to
have. He taught me how to write
songs and had the right intuition
to see talent even before it manife-
sted itself. The idea for the concept
of the Cantastorie project was born
from a sentence that came from a
fit of rage in front of a newspaper
article. Being a storyteller who tells
true stories of yesterday, today and
tomorrow was a natural choice.
You chose to get dressed by
Corto Maltese and still play with
the pictures a little bit. Where
does this choice come from?
No games. I’m a serious songwri-
ter. And the choice to dress at Cor-
to Maltese was a necessity to un-
derline my uniqueness. And then
the character of Hugo